THE HEAVENLY ARCANA CONTAINED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURE OR WORD OF THE LORD UNFOLDED HERE THOSE WHICH ARE IN EXODUS TOGETHER WITH WONDERFUL THINGS SEEN IN THE WORLD OF TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG THOROUGHLY REVISED AND EDITED BY THE REV. JOHN FAULKNER POTTS, B.A. LOND. VOLUME IX. STANDARD EDITION 1969 SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION INCORPORATED NEW YORK Established in 1850 AS 1765 [INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR.] Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.* The Heavenly Arcana which have been unfolded in the Prefixed and subjoined to the several chapters are the fol- Prefatory Remarks to the Doctrine of Charity and of Faith On the Inhabitants of other Earths (n. 6695 to n. 6702). The Doctrine of Charity (n. 6703 to n. 6712). On the Spirits of the Planet Mercury (n. 6807 to n. 6817.) The Doctrine of Charity (n. 6818 to n. 6824). Continuation concerning the Spirits of the Planet Mercury The Doctrine of Charity (n. 6933 to n. 6938). Continuation concerning the Spirits of the Planet Mercury The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7080 to n. 7086). Continuation about the Spirits and Inhabitants of the Earth The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7178 to n. 7182). On the Inhabitants and Spirits of the Planet Venus (n. The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7255 to n. 7263). On the Inhabitants and Spirits of the Planet Mars (n. 7358 The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7366 to n. 7377). Continuation about the Spirits and Inhabitants of the Planet The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7488 to n. 7494). Continuation about the Spirits and Inhabitants of the Earth Mars (n. 7620 to n. 7622). The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7623 to n. 7627). Continuation about the Inhabitants and Spirits of the Earth The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7752 to n. 7762). On the Spirits and Inhabitants of the Planet Jupiter (n. The Doctrine of Charity (n. 7814 to n. 7821). On the Spirits and Inhabitants of the Planet Jupiter, con- tinued (n. 8021 to n. 8032). NOTE. The figures between brackets in the text of the long para- graphs indicate the subdivisions arranged for the Swedenborg Concord- THE BOOK OF CHAPTER THE FIRST. 6627. Prefatory to the chapters of the Book of Exodus are to be Doctrinal things; first, Doctrinal things of Charity; afterward, Doctrinal things of Faith; in order that what has been delivered in the Explications in a scattered form may be set forth in a connected one; and that in this way the Doctrine may appear in its order, such as is and ought to be the Doctrine of the church that it may agree with the good and truth in heaven 6628. In the preceding Explications it has been shown, as occasion offered, that the Doctrine of Charity was the doctrine in the Ancient Churches, and that this doctrine conjoined all the churches, and so made one out of many; for they acknowledged as men of the church all who lived in the good of charity, and called them brethren, however greatly they might be at variance in the truths which at this day are called the truths of faith. In these one instructed another, and this was among their works of charity; nor were they indignant if one did not accede to the opinion of another, knowing that every one receives truth in proportion as he is in good. 6629. Such being the character of the Ancient Churches, they were more interior men, and being more interior they were more wise; for those who are in the good of love and of charity are as to the internal man in heaven, and in an angelic society there which is in like good. From this they have an elevation of mind to interior things, and consequently to the things of wisdom; for wisdom can come from no other source than heaven, that is, through heaven from the Lord; and in heaven there is wisdom, because there they are in good. VOL. IX.-1 |