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EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

brance and made clear by the light of the Holy Spirit. It has no need of the sun [of earth], neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

For continuity of subject we have taken Swedenborg's Apocalypse Revealed in connection with his Apocalypse Explained. But after laying aside the latter he wrote various smaller works, of which he published The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning Faith; also a Continuation concerning the Final Judgment. These were but small treatises. In 1763 he published the larger work entitled "Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom" and in the same or the next year that entitled "Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Providence." In these two most important works we find the spiritual philosophy of the New Church. Then came the Apocalypse Revealed, 1764-1766, followed in 1767 by "The Delights of Wisdom concerning Marriage Love." It

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