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1126 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
we must infer that that "opening of his interiors" took place to which
he refers in no. 33 of the present Note. As it is mentioned, further,
in nos. 31 and 34 that "the Lord manifested Himself in person
before him in 1743," it must be inferred that this took place during the
"preternatural sleep" which he had ever since the middle of October ;
1743; and that the Lord’s appearance to him then must have been
similar to that which took place in the night between April 6 and 7,
1744, and which is described in no. 27 of Document 209. As
Swedenborg advanced towards the highest state of illustration which
he enjoyed in this world, he perceived that the dreams which he
had during his "preternatural sleep" in 1743 and 1744 were already
glimpses into the spiritual world, wherefore he declares
of the present Note, not only that "the Lord Himself most merci
fully appeared before him, His servant in 1743," but also that "He
opened his sight into the spiritual world," and thereby enabled him
in time "to converse with spirits and angels."
In no. 84 of the private Diary (Document 209) Swedenborg says,
"The most singular thing is, that now I represent the inner man,
and as it were another than myself; that I visit my own thoughts,
frighten them, i. e. the things of my memory; that I accuse another."
This is evidently the development of a new state, and "this," he
further says," has now lasted for twenty-one days," and as this
statement was penned by Swedenborg on April 16, it would seem
as if this new development began on March 24, the date when he
began his Diary for 1744 (Document 209). No statement of any kind
is made in the passages belonging to Section II of the present
Note that the Lord manifested Himself anew to him in March,
1744; although, as mentioned above, in no. 27 of the Diary (Docu
ment 209), written on April 7, he describes an appearance of the
Lord before him, while he was at the Hague ; and, besides, Gjörwell
declares in no. 26 that "the Lord appeared before Swedenborg in
May, 1744, while he was in London." This is quite possible, although
it is not mentioned in the Diary for 1744 ; for during the whole of
that month, while Swedenborg was engaged in the preparation of
Part III, New Series of the Regnum Animale (see Note 164, vi),
he made only two entries in his private Diary, from which it appears,
however, that during that month he was in London. The dreams
and visions which are recorded throughout the whole of that Diary,
Swedenborg regarded in an advanced state of his illustration, from
1752 to 1766, as an actual glimpse into the spiritual world ; and the
persons he then describes as having seen in his dreams, in a sub
sequent higher state of illustration he found to have been either the
spirits themselves, or to have been represented by spirits. In most
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