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| subtitle = His Opinion on Materialization of Spirits | | subtitle = His Opinion on Materialization of Spirits | ||
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| source details = | | source details = v. 2, No. 3, March 25, 1875, p. 27 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|It}} has been constantly urged by the believers in Swedenborg’s doctrines that nothing could be found in his writings to warrant the supposition that spirits can clothe themselves again with matter, after having once left the material body— so most of them have been unable to rest in the belief of the present materializations of spirits. A writer in a recent number the New Jerusalem Messenger says, — | ||
“This is true, as far as 1 know, of all the writings published by himself. But in ‘Adversaria,’ 1457 (pointed out to me by a friend) he treats of the angel who wrestled with Jacob, and refers to the Messiah and two others (''ipse Messiah cum duobus aliis'') who appeared to Abraham and ate with him, and the same with Lot in Sodom, and were visible to the inhabitants of the city, and closed the door aganst them. He then gives quite a full account of the way in which the soul gathers the necessary materials, first in the ovum, then in the womb, and afterwards in life, and forms of them a material of body; and then goes on as follows, — | |||
“‘If now these things are considered, and those innumerable things which relate to the nourishment of the body and so to its composition and conservation, then it may be seen most clearly, that an Angel of Messiah or His Spirit, whenever it pleases Messiah, may induce a human form (for they are almost men, but without flesh and hones) with its ultimate texture, which is called flesh, with muscles and the like, which then comes to pass in a moment when it pleases Messiah, for in the air and ether are streams of such parts which at once serve in composing these things which relate to the ulterior texture; perpetual material principals are there, from which all composition may be given Thus, because their souls is only from Messiah, hence, whenever it pleases (him) he inspires into them such an effort as is in the soul of man, and thus in a moment all things are perfected. These things seem indeed obscure; but that they are thus is so evident from the human texture itself scrutinized as to its minor tissues, that there can be nothing more evident. But because they subsist only in exteriors and investigations are now made in outermosts. I cannot conjecture otherwise than that these things will appear to be paradoxes, when yet they arc most true. These things are such that they cannot be ranked among miracles, tor they follow immediately as often as it pleases Messiah, from the laws of order which are in Nature itself, thus from causes according to these laws; but never unless it pleases Messiah.’” | |||
Now who can say the Lord docs not please that they shall occur now and hereafter more and more, as spirits tell us? Who can say it is not a “law of order in Nature” which has now come, or is now coming, to its fulfillment? That our present materializations are not a part of the grand plan for human advancement towards its final goal? | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.15_1876-12-14.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 15, December 14, 1876, p. 159 | spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.15_1876-12-14.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 15, December 14, 1876, p. 159 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.03_1875-03-25.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 3, March 25, 1875, p. 27 | |||
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