The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-20


has a wood-cut of the Shenandoah as frontis-
piece.
NToerpy AND HIS MEN. BY J. Marshall Craw-
ford New York; Carleton. Philadelphia
Agent Dutlield Ashmead.
Vet another of the Southern war narratives.
II is of the stereotyped class, filled with unin-
teresting details, and abounding in all the
usual buncombe display, which is so literally
scattered through all such adventures. We
speak impartially when we say that it will not
repay perusal. 1t is filed with hideous wood
cuts of men of whom we never heard, and is
altogether such a poor work that we wonder
Mr.. Carleton has consented to its publication.
swEDENBoRG's "HEAvEN AND HE'LL"
HEAVEN AND ITS WONDERS AND HE'LL. FROM
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD. BY Emanuel
Swedenborg Originally published in Latin
at London, A. d. 1853. Svo, PIP. 45l, Phlade-
phia; j, b, Lippincott Co,
When Swedenborg announced, about a CEN
tury ago, the actual existence of spiritual
world in immediate proximity to the natural
like cause and effect he was regarded as a
visionary whose claims were too preposterous
to be entertained. But great change has
come over mankind; and doctrines which were
utterly rejected in his day are now preached
from thousands of pulpits and by ministers of
every denomination of Christians, many of
whom have never read line of his writings,
and who have no idea how wonderfully his
teachings accord, not only with all the recent
scientific discoveries, but with the most ad-
Vanced mind of the religious world.
Swendenborg was no sectarian-he wrote
for the Vholc aoorld-his system is too vast and
comprehensive to be appropriated by a puny
sect; and whilst his philosophy is making
rapid progress, his followers as sect have
met with little success. Whatever may be
thought of his claims as whole, the spirit of
sincere piety which pervades his works, his
devout acknowledgment of the divinity of
Christ, and his reverence for the Holy Scrip
tures, should entitle him to a respectful hear
ing from both ministers and laymen in all
branches of the Christian Church.
The volume before us, as to paper, typo
graphy, and binding, is one of the most beau
tiful ever published in this country, and we
congratulate Messrs. Lippincott & Co. on the
perfection to which they have brought the art
OF DOOk-mahluS' we quOte'-
Man after death has every sense, and al The
memory thought, and affection, IOhtcb he had
in The lOorld; and he leaves behind him nothing
bat his terrestrial BODY.
That when a nan passes from the natural
into the spiritual world, he takes with him all
things belonging to him as a man except his
terrestrial body. has been proved to me by
spiritual world, or the life after DEATH he Is in
a body as he was in the natural world; aud to
all appearance in the same body, since neither
touch nor sight can detect any difference. But
his body is spiritual, and thus is separated or
purified from things terrestrial; and when what
Is spiritual touches and sees what is spiritual, it
is Just the same to sense as when what is
natural touches and sees what is natural,
he is not aware that he has deceased, and
believes that he is still in the body which he
had when he was in the world. A human spirit
also enjoys every external and internal sense
which he possessed in the world. He sees as
smells and tastes as beforei and when ne is
touched he feels as before. He also longs, de-
sires wishes, thinks reflects, is affected loves,
and wills as before. And he who is delighted
with studies reads and writes as before. In q
word, when man passes from one life into the
other, or from one world into the other it Is just
as II he passed from one place to another; and
carries with him all things which he possessed
in himself as a man, so that il cannot be said
that man after death-which is only the death
of the terrestrial body-has lost anything that
belonged to himself He carries with him his
natural memory also, for he retains all things
whatsoever which he has heard, seen, read,
learned, and thought in the world, from
because the natural objects which are in the
memory cannot be reproduced in the spiritual
world, they are quiescent just as they are with
a man in this world when he does not think OF
them; but still they are reproduced when the
Lord pleases. The sensual man cannot possibly
believe that such is the state OF man after death,
because he does not comprehend It; for the SEN
sual man cannot think otherwise than natu-
rally, even about spiritual things; whatever
therefore is not palpable to the bodily sense,
that IS, Whatever he does not see with his eyes,
and touch with his hands, he affirms has no
existence; as we read of Thomas, in John Xxx,
25, q, 90
THE FIRST STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH.
There are three states through which man
passes after death, before he enters either
heaven or hell. The first state is that of his ex.
Eeriors; the second, that of his interiors and
the third, that of his preparation These states
are passed through in the world of spirits
But there are some who do not pass through
them, but Immediately after death either
taken up into heaven or cast into hell. They
who are Immediately taken up into heaven are
those who have been regenerated, and thus pre-
pared for heaven, IN the world. Ihey who
have become so regenerated aud prepared tha
they need only to cast off natural dehlement
with the body are Immediately conveyed
by the angels to heaven. L have seer
them taken up soon after the hou
of death. But they who have been tnteriorl,
wicked, though to outward appearance good
and thus have filled their wickedness will
deceit, and have used goodness as means Q
decetving are Immediately cast into hell.
have seen some such cast into hell directl
after death-one Of the most deceitful, with hi
head downwards and feet upwards; and other
in other ways. There are also some who i'm
mediately after death are cast into caverns, an
are thus separated from those who are in tn
world OF spirits, and are taken out thence an
let in thither py turns; these are they who
under civil pretenses have dealt wickediy wit
the neighbor. But the latter and the forme
are few in comparison with those who are KEEP
in the world of spirits and there according I