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MR. WHITE. 1295
Mr. White in 1856.
"Mathesius himself, in later
years, went out of his senses"
(p. 151).
Mr. White in 1867.
the Scriptures twice or thrice"
(II, p. 344).*
Mr. White says in his Preface,
"It will be observed, that it [the
Book of Dreams] has enabled me
to vindicate the memory of the
Rev. A. Mathesius, who for many
years has been hooted through
Swedenborgian literature as a
slanderer, and subsequently a
madman" (I, p. vii).
In what manner Mr. White
"vindicated the memory of Mathe
sius" will be seen below in Divi
sion IV.
II.
CONTRADICTIONS IN MR. WHITE’S "LIFE" OF 1867.
Contradictions similar to those which exist between Mr. White in
1856 and Mr. White in 1867, occur also in his "Life" of 1867, where
we meet with the following contradictory expressions :
"If Swedenborg desired fame "Swedenborg lived to the end,
he never left the path of good hankering after recognition from
sense to look for it ... The desire the Scribes and Pharisees, from
for fame, or gain, or vengeance authorities, civil and ecclesiasti
has provoked many a head into cal (I, p. 322). He fancied it
brilliant action; butinSwedenbo would advance his Jerusalem in
such passions were either weak the favour of the great poten
ordormant. His intellectualpowers tates of Europe if they learned
were set in motion by the gentle that their predecessors were
fire of that Love whose single in heaven, and forthwith he
joy is the knowledge of the truth" reported Elizabeth of Russia,
(I, p. 183). and Louis XIV of France,
and George II of England as
among the Blessed. I do not
accuse him of any conscious
* Swedenborg’s own statement on this subject is, "When heaven was opened to me, I
had first to to learn the Hebrew language, as well as the correspendences according to
which the whole Bible is composed, which led me to read the Word of God over many
times" (Document 234) .
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