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SvVEDENBORG'S THEOLOGICAL WORKS. PUBLISHED BT THE AMERICAN SWEDENBORG PRINTING AND PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 20 COOPER UNION, NEW YORK. This edition (19 volumes uniform octavo) contains all the theological works which Swedenborg himself published. The whole set, when delivered at one time, is offered at $25. All sales strictly for cash. A liberal discount to the trade. Arcana Coelesiia : the Heavenly Arcana contained in the Holy Scripture or Word of the Lord, unfolded ; together with Wonder, ful Things seen and heard in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels. Ten vols. $1.50 per vol. This work is an exposition of the internal sense, according to the law of correspondences, of the books of Genesis and Exodus. It unfolds the spiritual significance of the creation and fall of man; of the deluge, and the saving of Noah's family in the ark; of the captivity of the chosen people in Egypt, their delivery thence, their wandering in the wilderness, and the miracles performed in their behalf; of the ritual of the Jewish religion, its sacrifices and observances; and, in general, traces the foreshadowing of the incarnation and glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many passages from other parts of the Word are also fully explained. At the close of each chapter, interesting relations of things heard and Been in the spiritual world are added, concerning death, the resurrection of man, and his entrance into eternal life; the nature of the soul, of heaven and heavenly joy, and of hell and its miseries; concerning spheres in the other fife; the light and heat in which the angels live, and their paradisiacal scenery ; visions and dreams, including the pro- phetical ones recorded in the Word; the last Judgment; memory in the other life ; the condition of the Mohammedans and Heathen in the other world; the Grand Man, or the whole angelic heaven, and the correspondence of the different societies therein with the different organs of the human body ; the origin and correspondence of diseases ; the spirits and inhabitants of the various planets, and of other earths in the starry heavens.