Spiritual Experiences #6009

By Emanuel Swedenborg
  
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6009. About Ulrica Eleonora

15. Aug. 1761. In the morning an elegant carriage in which was a magnificently clothed man appeared to me, and soon too a young woman like a plain-looking servant girl, with the Word in hand. It was Ulrica Eleonora in this state. I did not then know where she came from or who she was. When the carriage drove past the man called her to climb up to him into the carriage, which she was reluctant to do, but did when persuaded. The man was from Germany, from a certain duchy there. He had died as a boy and like her had studied the Word and loved reflecting on spiritual truth. So the two were drawn through various societies, and so they came in states of mind that were pleasing to them, and also into friendship, or rather into married states. From there they were [drawn] into a magnificent hall.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.