What the Writings Testify

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The Heavenly Doctrine in the Spiritual World

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Since revelations take place in both worlds (AE 641:3), the Writings were often seen and quoted by Swedenborg in the spiritual world (CL 416, AR 716). The five books published in 1758 were presented to certain African spirits (SD 5946, compare 4775, 4777 and CLJ 76). Swedenborg's summaries of the internal sense were compared with the Word as existing in a heavenly society (SS 97). The heavenly doctrine was seen in the spiritual world reposing on a cedar table, in the form of the "Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom" and "concerning the Divine Providence" (AR 875:15, also called "Celestial Arcana" in TCR 461e). Swedenborg mentions the existence of many copies of the Brief Exposition in the other world. (Eccl. Hist. 4, 8, compare SD 5908)

"When the heavenly doctrine concerning the Lord is known on one earth, the rest are thus able to know it when they become spirits and angels." (SD 4781, cp. 4780, EU 118)

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