Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and General Review, Vol. 24: March-July, 1838 But whatever may be the truth upon this point, we are by no means destitute of information, coming without dispute h'om Swedenborg, relative to his illumination. We have referred to his own statement that he had been prepared hom his youth, for the office to which he was called. In his letter to the king of Sweden on the subject of his persecution by the clergy, he writes thus: I have already informed your majesty and beseech you to recall it to mind, that the Lord our Savior manifested himself to me in a sensible personal appearance; that he has commanded me to write what has been already done and what I have still to do that he was afterwards graciously pleased to endow me with the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits, and to be in fellowship with them. Again, in a letter to Mr. (ettinger, superintendent of the mines in Sweden, Swedenborg says, I can sacredly and solemnly declare that the Lord himself has been seen of me, and that he has sent me to do what I do, and for such purpose he has opened and en lightened the interior part of my soul, which is my spirit, so that I can see what is in the spiritual world and those that are therein, and this privilege has now been continued to me for twenty-two years. This letter was dated in 1766, and thus would fix his first illumination as given in the disputed letter above referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.