The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-05
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Most everybody has heard, more or
less, about the Swedenborgians, re-
ligious sect now upwards of hundred
years old. but few, we presume, outside
of their own limited numbers, know
very much in regard to the peculiarities
of their creed. What is called the New
Jerusalem Church derives its origin
from writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish gentleman, who was dis
tinguished in his day for great learning
and an exalted character He was
born in 1858, and died in 1771. 1t is
claimed for him that by his knowledge
ofmathematics and mechanics, and his
aptitude in practically applying them
he had established many discoveries in
various departments of science, for
which others, in later years, received
credit. And that among these diseov.
cries he ascertained the identity Of
electricity and lightning years before
Franklin's experiments, and also that
he first announced the fact of the res
piration of the brain, the atomic
theory, the vitality of the blood, the
science of crystalligraphy and other
great truths. In the year 1745, while
holding high position in the scientific
world, in his 57th year, Swedenborg
came to the belief that he was specially
called to a new and holy office by God,
"who manifested himself to him in
person, and opened his sight to a view
of the spiritual world, and granted
him the privilege of conversing with
spirits and angels"
The book mentioned at the outset OF
this article, among other subjects, treats
of the following:-that Heaven and
He'll are from the human race-that
every angel is in perfect human
form-that Heaven consists OF innu-
merable ,societies-On the Sun, Light
and Heat, Space and Time in Heaven,
On Innocence and Peace in Heaven,
On Infants in Heaven,-on Employ
ments in Heaven. In it are set forth
1--WE quote from the indexl that
1t has been given to Swedenborg to
be together with angels, and to speak
with them as man to man, and to see
the things which are in the heavens,
and the things which are in the hells;
to speak with them as a friend with a
friend, and sometimes as a stranger
with stranger To speak
with some who were in the ancient
Church; to speak with some who lived
two thousand years ago, and others
who lived seventeen centuries ago, and
others who lived some three, and SO on;
to speak with others three days after
their death;
and so on, through long list of what,
ash Seer, gifted by the Lord, he be-
lieved that he had not dreamed, but
seen, heard, and experienced. sg4z -
rs As amatter of general Interest to our
readers we publish from the data before
us the following extract, which we pre-
sumo fully sets forth the Swedenborgian
view of Immortality. wequote:
Man after death has epery sense, and all
The memory, thought, and affection,
tOhich he had in the IUorLf; and he
leaves behind him nothing but his ter
reStidt body. y---------------+-' = 49, l-.--
That when a man passes from the
natural into the spiritual world, he
takes with him all things belonging to
him as man except his terrestrial
body, has been proved TO me by mani
fold experience. For when he enters
the spiritual world, or the life after
death, he is in body as he was in the
natural world; and &c. 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 spiritualtoucheS and sees
what is spiritual, it is just the same to
sense as when what is natural touches
and sees what is natural. Hence when
a man first becomes spirit, he is not
Sx sfhaT-ha has dnnpaSad ha
lieyes 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 before; he
hears and speaks as before; he smells
and tastes as before; and when he is
touched Ehe feels as before. He also
longs. desires, wishes, thinks, reflects,
is affected, loves and wills as
before. And he who is delighted.
with studtesi reads and writes as before.
In word, when man passed from one
life into the other, or from one world
into the other, it Is just as if he passed
from one place to another; and carries
with him all things which he possessed
in himself as a man, SO that it cannot
be said that man after rdeath4which is
only the death of the terrestrial body
has lost anYthing that belonged to him
self. BE 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 earliest infancy even to the end Of
life. But because the natural objects
which are in the memory cannot be re-
produced 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 repro
duced when the Lord pleases. The sem
lryk ks,Ifs q b,
such Is the state of man after death,
because he does not comprehend it; for
the sensual man cannos think other
wise than naturally, even about spirit-
ual 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, ., q, %. . l.sgr Sd
THE FIRST STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH.
There are three states through which
man passes after death, before he en-
ters either heaven or hell. The first
state is that of his exteriUrs; the sec
ond, that of his interiors; the third, that
OF his PREPARATION These states are
passed through in the world of spirits.
Butthere are some who do not pass
through them, but Immediately after
death are either taken mp into heaven
or cast into hell. They who are imme
diately taken up into heaven are those
who have been regenerated, and thus
prepared for heaven, in the world. They
who have become so regenerated and
prepared that they need only to cast off
natural deilements with the body, ara
Immediately conveyed by the angels to
heaven / have seen them taken mn
soon amer the hour OF death. But fheV
who have been 1nterforIy wicked.
though to outward appearances good,
and thus have filled their wickedness
with deceit, and have used goodness as
q means efdeceIvings are iuIInediatetY
cast into hell / have seen some such