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MR. WHITE. 1293
Mr. White in 1856.
"The earnest reader of the
’Arcana’ will never question the
reality of Swedenborg’s mission.
He would as soon question the
reality of his own existence .
We never take down a volume
of the ’Arcana’ to read, without
feeling more and more assured
that Swedenborg was an anointed
servant of the Lord ... No
criticism, however reverential, can
adequately express the innumer
able and marvellous excellencies
of the work" (pp. 41, 42).
On p. 96 Mr. White quotes
with approbation Dr. Wilkin
son’s opinion of the " Apocalypse
Revealed," where he says, "A
volume, unless it were a reprint,
would not give an analysis of
the ’Apocalypse Revealed.’ When
we say that the commentary takes
the text word by word, and trans
lates it into spirit, we still convey
but a slender idea of what is
done. Our own first impressions
on reading the work will not soon
be forgotten" (p. 96). "Well,
then," says Mr. White, "might
Swedenborg disclaim the author
ship of the ideas in the ’Apo
calypse Revealed’ and ask, ’what
man can draw such things from
himself" (p. 97).
Mr. White in 1867.
on
"Eight volumes quarto
Genesis and Exodus make cer
tainly an alarming appearance, but
such is the ’ Arcana Coelestia!
’ ...
The bulk of this work is greatly
increased by the insertion, be
tween each chapter, of papers
descriptive of Swedenborg’s own
angelic and diabolic experiences...
The whole is written in his cus
tomary diffuse style and with
wearisome repetition" (I, p. 325).
Speaking of the " Apocalypsis
Explicata" and the "Apocalypsis
Revelata" White says, "The second
work is much inferior to the first;
it is less diffuse, but it is about
as dry as a dictionary . I can
scarcely imagine how Sweden
borg had the heart to replace the
’Apocalypsis Explicata’ with that
bony affair, the ’ Apocalypsis Reve
lata’" (Vol. II, p. 310).
...
"Interspersed between the va- "The course of the treatise [on
rious chapters of the treatise on ’Conjugial Love’ ] is broken at
"Conjugial Love’ are memorable intervals by Memorabilia’-ad
relations of scenes which the ventures and discussions in the
author beheld in the spiritual Spiritual World chiefly illustrative
world, and conversations he had of Conjugial Love : some contain
with spirits and angels on the curious items of experience,
subject of conjugial love. Many
Many touched with poetry, but the
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