at a fire not allowable. Having spoken these words he was willing still to recount further particulars concerning conjugial love from its effigies in that palace; but he said, Enough at this time, inquire first whether what has been already said is above the level of ordinary understandings; if it is, what need of saying more? but if it is not, more will be discovered." Conjugial Love.

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM B. SWEDEN BORG'S

WORKS.

"CONCERNING THE JEWS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD."

841. The Jews before the last judgment, which took place in the year 1757, appeared in a valley on the left side of the central point in the spiritual world, where the Christians inhabit; after that time they were translated towards the north, and were forbidden all commerce with the Christians, except with vagabonds, who left their own habitations. There are in that quarter two large cities into which the Jews are translated after Death, which before the last judgment they called Jerusalems, but since that time by another name, because since the judgment by Jerusalem is meant the Church with regard to doctrine, in which the

Lord alone is worshipped. In their cities converted Jews are set over them, who admonish them not to speak disrespectfully of Christ, and who punish such as disregard their admonitions. The streets of their cities are full of dirt up to the ankles, and their houses are so offensive, by reason of their filthiness, that none but themselves can. bear to enter them. After some time I observed, that several of that people had gained habitations in the southern quarter, and on enquiring who they were, I was informed that they were such as had made small account of the worship celebrated amongst their brethren, and had scruples in their mind concerning the Messiah, whether he would ever come or not, and also had thought on various subjects in the world according to the dictates of reason, and had suffered their lives to be influenced thereby. These consist chiefly of Jews who are called Portuguese.

842. There sometimes appears to the Jews an angel in the middle altitude above them, with a rod in his hand who causes them to believe that he is Moses, and admonisheth them to desist from their groundless and extravagant notion concerning the Messiah, as if he was still to come amongst them; representing to them that Messiah is Christ who governeth them, and all other Creatures;

and that he (viz. Moses) knoweth this to be true, and also had knowledge concerning Christ, whilst he lived in the world. On receiving this information they retire, and the greater part forget what they have heard, and few retain it. Such as retain it are sent into synagogues which consist of convert Jews, and are further instructed, and during their instruction they receive new garments instead of their old tattered ones, and are presented with a copy of the word neatly written, and have an abode allotted them in a city not unhandsome. But such as do not receive the above admonition, are cast down, and banished into forests and desarts, where they exercise all kinds of theft and robbery one amongst another.

843. The Jews traffick in the spiritual world as in the natural world, with various commodities, particularly with precious stones, which by unknown ways they procure for themselves from heaven, where there are precious stones in great abundance. The reason of their trafficking with precious stones is, because they read the word in its original tongue, and esteem the sense of the letter to be holy, and precious stones correspond with the sense of the letter. That such stones derive their spiritual origin from the literal sense of the word, and that this is the ground of their corres

pondence, may be seen above in the chapter on the SACRED SCRIPTURE, n. 217, 218. They can also make artificial precious stones, and induce others to believe them genuine; but for this they are severely fined by their governors.” True Chr. Rel.

OF DIVINE INFLUX INTO MAN.

"251. Divine influx passes from the Lord to man through the forehead, and so into his whole face; for the forehead of a man corresponds to love, and the face to the interior of his mind. The influx from the spiritual angels to man is all round from his forehead and temples to every part under which lies the brain, as that region of the head corresponds to intellect: but the influx of the celestial angels is on that part of the head which covers the cerebellum, and is called the occiput, or back part of the head round from the ears to the neck, for that region corresponds to wisdom: when angels converse with man, their speech enters by these ways into his thoughts; hereby I could perceive who the angels were that spake with me." Treatise on Heaven and Hell.

CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF ANXIETY AND GRIEF.

299. "It has also been given me to know whence anxiety, grief, and that sadness of mind, which we call melancholy in man, proceed: there are certain spirits, that are not yet joined to Hell, as being newly departed from the body, which take delight in things indigested and putrid, such as meats corrupted in the stomach, and hold their confabulations in such sinks of uncleanness in man, as suitable to their impure affections: now if these their affections are contrary to those in man, they become in him the occasion of sadness and melancholy; but on the contrary, if they correspond to his own affections, he is pleased, and delighted therewith. These spirits appear near to the stomach, some to the right, some to the left of it, some higher, some lower, some nearer, some more distant, according to their different kinds of affection; and that they cause uneasiness of mind, I am fully convinced, by much experience: I have seen and heard them, and felt the uneasiness caused by them, and I have also conversed with them: upon their removal, the uneasiness has ceased, and returned upon their return; and I have also been sensible of its increase and decrease, according to the degrees of their approach or removal

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