person cannot go forth and proceed from another through a third, but operation can; or what is a God going forth and proceeding from a God, but divinity going forth and proceeding? one God cannot go forth and proceed from another, and by another, but divinity can go forth and proceed from one God. Is not the Divine Essence one and indivisible, and since the Divine Essence or the Divine Esse is God, is not God one and indivisible?" After hearing these things, they that sat on the seats came to this unanimous conclusion, that the Holy Ghost is not a person by itself, nor a God by itself, but that it is the holy divine going forth and proceeding from the one only omnipresent God, who is the Lord. To this the angel who stood at the golden table, on which was the Word, said, "It is well; we do not read in any part of the Old Testament that the prophets spake the Word from the Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah the Lord; and wherever the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the New Testament, it signifies the proceeding divinity, which is the divine that illustrates, teaches, vivifies, reforms, and regenerates.” After this came on another subject of inquiry concerning the Holy Spirit, viz.: "From whom does the divine, which is called the Holy Spirit, proceed; from the divine which is called the Father, or from the Divine Humanity which is called the Son?" And whilst they were engaged in this inquiry there shone on them a light from heaven, whereby they saw that the Holy Divine which is meant by the Holy Spirit, proceeds from the divinity in the Lord through his glorified humanity, which is the Divine Humanity, comparatively as all activity proceeds from the soul through the body in man; this the angel who stood at the table confirmed from the Word by the following passages: "For he whom the Father hath sent, speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him; the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand," John iii. 34, 35. "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might," Isaiah xi. 1, 2. That the Spirit of Jehovah was

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put upon him, and that it was in him, Isaiah xlii. 1, lix. 19, 20, lxi. 1, Luke iv. 18. When the Holy Spirit is come whom I will send unto you from the Father," John xv. 26. "He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine, therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and show it unto you," John xvi. 14, 15. "If I go away, I will send the Comforter to you," John xvi. "The Comforter is the Holy Spirit," John xiv. 26. "For the Holy Spirit was not yet, because that Jesus was not yet glorified," John vii. 39. After his glorification, "Jesus breathed upon his disciples and said, Receive ye the Holy Spirit,” John xx. 22. Inasmuch as the divine operation of the Lord from his divine omnipresence is meant by the Holy Spirit, therefore when he spoke to his disciples concerning the Holy Spirit whom he was about to send from God the Father, he also said, I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you; "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you," John xiv. 18, 20, 28; and just before his departure out of the world, he said: "Lo, I am with you. alway, even unto the consummation of the age," Matt. xxviii. 20. Having read these words in their presence, the angel said, "From these and many other passages in the Word, it is evident that the divine, which is called the Holy Spirit, proceeds from the divinity in the Lord through his Divine Humanity." Hereupon they that sat on the seats, said, "This is divine truth." Finally, this decree was passed ;-From what has been deliberated in this Council we see clearly, and therefore acknowledge as holy truth, that in our Lord Jesus Christ there is a divine trinity, consisting of the all-begetting divinity (divinum a quo), which is called the Father, the Divine Humanity which is called the Son, and the Proceeding Divine which is called the Holy Spirit: thus there is one God in the church.

When these conclusions were determined in that magnificent Council, they rose up to depart; and the angel, the keeper of the wardrobe, presented to each of them who sat on the seats, shining garments, interwoven here

and there with threads of gold, and said, "Receive ye these Wedding Garments:" and they were conducted in a glorious manner to the new Christian heaven, with which the Lord's church on earth, which is the New Jerusalem, is to be in conjunction.

Apoc. xxii. 21.

THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.

INDEX

TO THE

APOCALYPSE REVEALED:

I. OF WORDS, NAMES, AND THINGS.
II. OF THE MEMORABLE RELATIONS.

III. OF PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE.

NOTICE TO THE READER.

A Latin manuscript copy of this INDEX, from which the following translation was made, is in the possession of the Editor, who transcribed it from a copy brought from Sweden by Mr. Chs. Frederick Nordenskjold in 1783. The original manuscript of Emanuel Swedenborg, from which the first transcript was made, is deposited in the Royal Library at Stockholm.

J. A. T.