What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
CHAPTER 3
Swedenborg enjoyed a complete Divine inspiration
"The Lord Jehovah derives and produces from this New Heaven a New Church on the
earth, which is done by a Revelation of Truths from His own mouth or from His Word, and by
Inspiration."
- Coronis 18
When I think of what I am about to write, and while I am writing, I enjoy a complete
(fullkomlig) inspiration, for otherwise it would be my own; but now I know for certain
that what I write is the living truth of God."
- Swedenborg's testimony as reported by Gjorwell, Doc. II, p. 404
"...That the internal sense is such as has been set forth is plain from the
singular things which have been explained, and especially from this, that this has been
dictated to me out of heaven."
- Arcana Coelestia 6597
"The second coming of the Lord is effected by means of a man before whom He has
manifested Himself in Person, and whom He has filled with His Spirit to teach the
doctrines of the New Church through the Word from Him."
- True Christian Religion 779, heading
"That at this day there exists such immediate revelation, is because this is meant
by the Advent of the Lord."
- Heaven and Hell 1
"It has pleased the Lord to prepare me from my earliest youth to perceive the
Word, and He has introduced me into the spiritual world, and has enlightened me with the
light of His Word more proximately. From this it is manifest that this surpasses all
miracles..."
- Invitation to the New Church 55
"In place of miracles, there has, at this day, taken place a manifestation of the
Lord Himself, an intromission into the spiritual world, and enlightenment there through
immediate light from the Lord, in such things as are the interior things of the church;
but chiefly, the opening of the spiritual sense in the Word, in which the Lord is in His
own Divine light."
- Coronis: Miracles IV
"That this [New] Church is not instituted and established through miracles, but
through the revelation of the spiritual sense, and through the introduction of my spirit,
and at the same time of my body, into the spiritual world, so that I might know there what
heaven and hell are, and in light might imbibe immediately from the Lord the truths of
faith whereby man is led to eternal life."
- Invitation to the New Church, VII
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