What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
NOTES:
Swedenborg's States of Preparation
The citations in the preceding collection are selected to illustrate the character of the Theological Writings of Swedenborg and show their status as works of Divine revelation. We have not included any statements which Swedenborg made about his states of inspiration during the years of his preparatory studies of the Scripture, especially during his writing of the "Adversaria", which was not published until long after his death and which is now known by the English title, "The Word Explained". For in this interval (1745-1747), before he began to write the Arcana Coelestia, he did indeed feel states of inspiration,' but he also records states of despair when inspiration seemed to fail and he experienced uncertainties and obscurities. He was then annoyed by showed hesitancy as to whether to make changes in his statements.
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