The New York herald., 1845-10-26
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tendance upon the concluding Lecture OF this series,
which has given new impulse TO the cause of Swe-
denbor panism In this city. Prof B. has treated all
hi. topics with ability, candor, and zeal. He has
put the claims of the system the ground Of philo-
sopbicsl truth as one that addresses itself TO the
Reason while at the same time, il preserves all due
Difference 10 Faith. He pleads strongly for its Ca
thoc character, as Offering broad platform for the
union of all christian sects who hold Fundamentally
the Head, and receive the Scriptures as the in
faible Word of Truth. Its leading characters are
Chanty-love to God and to thy neighbor--and the
prominence given to Life, as the all in all of rell-
gon, leaves little room for debate about doctrinals
In the lecture last evening, he considered Sweden
borgs doctrine of an internal, or spiritual sense ute-
rior TO- the letter. This he said, grew out OF the
fact OF mans having spiritual nature implanted,
rather opened, by regeneration, and which can only
be ted and sustained by spiritual sense. This did
not initiate with the historical truth OF the letter,
nor does imply that Swed enborgs inte rpretatlons
amount TO a new revelation. They merely unfold
the inner sense of The revelation already given
This sense is wrapped up IN the literal the soul is
Included In the body or as affection Is indicated by
the aspect OF the face Ii is by means OF II that the
III ward lite o. the regenera,e man rs sustained
The matter may receive q familiar illustration We
know that the caterpillar, gTovellng the earth has
enwrpped within butterfly being which is finally to
be developed OF it, and hen developed is TO enter
another mode Of ea LIE to be sustained by other
medi. than that OF its parent orm Il TO
live in the air instead Of creeping the ground, and is
to draw Dourishmsn from sources The caterPil
lar may represent the natural man. the butterfly the sp
ritual man. Suppose that the butter fly lie should
begin to be awakened and to put forth Its instincts in
caterpillar body, prior to its emeIgence is it clear
that il would crave something for sustenance
sublmated and ETHEREAL than the gross food of the
But situated as IL EMBODIED within the caterpillar
the medium of the reptile organization and yet upon this
it cannot live in the crude state in which it enters the
body oil its parent It must he by process eabora-
ted and rcned in order to be adapted the
of the delicate life within BY and by, when developed
and detached from its present tenement IT seek its
TODD itself from such will yield IL but until
that period arrives it must subsist upon elements
ceived through another medium, and by my sterious
process ada pted to its wants The application Of
all this to tho in hand is very obvious In
regeneration the internal spiritual is quickened
into incipient vitality, and begins to the ap.
propriate food upon which it must live when sspa-
rated from his present feshly integuments. The
natural man, answering to the creeping worm, re-
ceves the grosser literal The spiritual man. by
dden process extracts his needfui psbuum out of the
the letter But the letter be able 10 afford
it. II must have the finer elements essentially included
in the grosser And this is the spiritual and it
just certain that there spiritual Word
as that there IL spiritual nature in man. The is
necessary correate to the other We see then accord
ing to this how indispensable it is that should pre-
vously have gained knowledge of the and condi
ton OF man isembodied spirit in order that we
may gain adequate idea Of his true nature as an
embodied spirit We must know what the butterfly is
as butterfly, when released from his groveng case.
nent that may know fully what il s It's rudi.
mental germ within the primitive organism. Sweden.
berg by being translated in spirit the state spirits
has been enabled to give us tins information Accord
ingly lie thus speaks the subject "lnasmuch as by
divine mercy Of the Lord has been granted know
the internal sense OF the word in which contained the
deepest sicana such as have never heretofore 10
the knowledge Of any one, come unless il be
known how things are in another lfefor most things
which in the internal of the word regard
scribe and involve these hings,-t is allowed lay
open the things which have heard and seen now, TOR
several years, in which it has been given be in the
fellowship Of spirits and angels am aware that many
will say that no one can speak with spirits and
gels while he lives in the body and many that it
phantasy; others, that relate such things that NAV
gain cred others otherwise; but do regard these
things for have sssn have heard have felt Man was
created by the Lord that during his life in the body
he might have capacity OF conversng with spirits and
angels as was also done in the most ancient times for
he one with them. being spirit clothed h body;
but because in process oftme mankind immersed the
selves in bodily and worldly things that they paid little
yet the bodily things in which he is
recsde the way open. and he is among spirits and
sociaes his ie with them" Admitting the pre-
sert the truth and reality OF this illumination hich
further evidence will be given proceed-we are
furnished with an answer to the question whether this
internal sense capable Of being distinguished from
the arbitrary and fanciful nterpi put upon
the Scriptures and from which sober minds prone
revolt as the pous but exravagant whmsies Of enhusi
asts and sites. II will doubt be conceded that
there is sucn thing as spiritual sense But shall
we know that We have attained the true spiritual
that which the Holy Ghost really intended original
inditing of the Word One man propounds one thing
as the spiritual sense-another, smother How snail
we choose between them How shall we be sure tina,
either Is tue correct one lfSwedenborg to be believ
ed he was IN specii manner Empowered by the divine
teaching IN his super state preclude all
take OIL this head by giving the genuine sptusl
of large portion OF the Word and also by ing
the fundamental principles on wi ch 1t rests This prin
cipe is other tan that Of to which
nave already adverted in q former lecture and which
propose TO unfold little more fully Correspon.
dence general may defined the relation subsis,ine
between the essence OF thing and its FORM
the cause and Its effect This is very obvious in regard
10 the human body In which every part
the soul, by whicn 1t s informed, psrvaded aud acted
Swedenborg remarks, that in q countenancs which has
not been taught to dissemble all the affections the
mind display themselves vsbly in natural form, as
IN their type aud hence the face laid an index
OF mind Thus, mans spiritual word is viibis IN
his atui al world In the manner the ideas Of his
understanding are senbly manifested IN his speech and
the OF his viii the gestures oi his body
All things. therefore, which done the body
ther II be IN the face the speech or the gestures are
called corrsspondences But this principle is OF still
ne continues, corresponds to the spiritual world
and not only the natural world collectively,
i.ts in the natural world from the spiritual
said to be the responder oil that from which IL T.
i'ts to be observed that the natural world exist.
and substs IRON the spiritual world Just an efec,
ext Is from Its efficient All is called the naturs
world which lies beneath the sun, and thence receives
its neat and ght and the things OF the natural world
all those when thence subsist but spiritual world
is heaven and the things OF that world all things
which in the heavens The great principle stfi rm
ed then s that all material objects are the produc Of
spiritual essences which flow into them and ould the m
into certain conformity that is to say into
dencs with themselves This holds both in regard 10
the whole, and TO every part Thus not only does iii,
whole human body to the whole OF the soul bu,
every distinct organ and member Of the body to some
dislc faculty OF principle OF the SOUL and this
tits derived from IT, CT is fo for sake to be its sea
or instrument OF action IN the world Of naturs for tha,
the oooy IS elaborated oy the soul under God there
be no shadow OF doubt Take, for instance the hand
~hcn the executive Of the soul its acts every one
can see that the hand is the proper correspondent
power because the power Of the soul which is sprt
usl is concentated ~ the hand This metaphor
hgurs, because II is the relation of cause and ei
| 4 not Nd
owed forth by the hand but causes the hand 10 ex
is And this dscoses the real difference between
phor ana analogy ior an ogy is the ground
respondencs Aetophor, sime is foui led upon ths
resemblance which natural object or crcunsts
has to another natural object or circumstance whereas
analogy or correspondence is the actual relation
ing between natural object and a spiritual principle
or between natural form and spiritual essence-na
h between outer and inner, lower and higher nstur,
and spirit, and not between nature nature or su
and spirit Thus Virgil likens the destruction Of Troy
with her lofty spires TO the fall Of aged being