Emanuel Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four (Classic Reprint)

Emanuel Svvedenborg ,at various periods of his life, was in the iiabit of keepinga diary. The most extensive and best known of his diaries is the Spiritual Diary, in which, from the year 1747 to 1765, he made notes of his experiences in the spiritual world. As far as is known, Swedenborgdid not begin to keep a diary until the year 1733, when he wrote down a very brief sketch of his first two foreign journeys, beginning with the year 1710. This was followed by a larger itinerary, describinghis travels in Germany during the years 1733 and 1734, but it was discontinued during the year 1735. when Swedenborg remained at his home in Stockholm. When, in the year 1736, he started on his fourth and most extensive foreign journey, he again began to keep an itinerary, or, more properly speaking, a diary, which he kept up until March. 1739, describing his travels in Holland, Flanders. France, and I taly. It has been reported that Swedenborg, in the manuscript containing this Diary, also described some remarkable dreams which he experienced during these years, but that his heirs removed the pages containing these dreams. Only two leaves, however, are missing from this manuscript. (D oc. 11:130. )W ecome now to Swedenborg sthird attempt at keeping a diary, the manuscript which has become known as Swedenborg s Dreams, 1744, an octavo pocket book, (6J2 by 4inches), bound in parchment and containing 104 written pages. Of the history of this Codex nothing is known except the fact that it was found by Mr. L. B. Borberg in the library of the late R.
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