1. MARITAL LOVE: ITS WISE DELIGHTS
PRELIMINARY: THE JOYS OF HEAVEN AND A WEDDING THERE
I foresee 1 that many who read the Memorabilia immediately following and those after the chapters will believe that they are inventions of the imagination. I solemnly declare, however, that they are not inventions, but things which were actually done and seen - seen, moreover, not in a state of the mind asleep, but in a state of full wakefulness. For the Lord has been pleased to manifest Himself to me and to send me to teach what is intended for a new Church, meant by the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse. To this end He has opened the interiors of my mind and spirit, so that it has been my privilege to be with angels in the spiritual world and at the same time with men in the natural world, and this now 2 for twenty-five years.
სქოლიოები:
1. In the original Latin this paragraph is enclosed in quotation marks. It occurs again in True Christian Religion 851.
2. In the year 1768; Swedenborg was to live, and to continue in this privilege, four years longer. See note at 419.
