What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
CHAPTER 2
Swedenborg ascribed his theological Writings to the Lord
"The Books which were written by the Lord by means of me (a Domino per me), from
the beginning to the present day, should be enumerated.
- Ecclesiastical History 3
"A certain Anglican bishop told how he especially had insulted the five works
concerning heaven and hell and the rest which had been presented to all [the bishops] and
to all the Protestant lords in the Parliament, vituperating and blaspheming them... Then
it was told him that the work is not mine but the Lord's, who desired to reveal the nature
of heaven and hell and the quality of the life of man after death and concerning the last
judgment... And I also told him that this [revelation] is the male child whom the woman
brought forth and whom the dragon wished to devour. [Rev. 12]
- Spiritual Diary 6101:2
"That our Savior has visibly revealed Himself before me and commanded [me] to do
what I have done and what is yet to be done, and that He thereupon allowed me to come into
communion [samtal] with angels and spirits, I have declared before the whole of
Christendom.... That [the Chancellery of Justice now] relates that they still cannot
believe it, I cannot take amiss, since I cannot put my state of sight and speech into the
heads of others and so convince them, nor can I cause angels and spirits to talk with
them; nor is it permitted that miracles should occur nowadays, but reason itself shall
find it [true] when with reflection they read my writings in which much is found such as
never before has been discovered nor can be discovered without actual sight and
conversation with those who are in the spiritual world... If there should be any further
doubt, I am ready to testify with the most solemn oath that may be required of me, that
this is [the] truth, complete and actual, without the least fallacy. That our Savior
causes this to happen to me is not at all for my sake, but from an urgency which concerns
the eternal welfare of all Christians. .
- Swedenborg's letter to the king, May 25, 1770
"Read, if you please, the things which have been written in the latest published
work, called "The True Christian Religion", concerning the arcana disclosed by
the Lord through me His servant... and afterwards draw a conclusion, but from reason,
concerning my Revelation."
- Swedenborg's letter to Cuno in 1770
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