The Last Judgment (Posthumous), and various things concerning the Spiritual World, and an Argument Concerning the Judgment.

Translated from the Latin notes of Emanuel Swedenborg, by John Whitehead.

Contents:

- The Last Judgment, n. 1.

- The Spiritual World, n. 286.

- Argument Concerning the Judgment, n. 372.

Translator's Note: The following posthumous tracts of Swedenborg have not previously appeared in book or pamphlet form in an English translation. Most of them have appeared in whole in or in part in serial form in the New Jerusalem Magazine, and in the Intellectual Repository. They are now brought together for the first time in book form, that they may be more fully available for use by the readers of Swedenborg. The numbering of the Last Judgment and the Spiritual World is made consecutive, to conform with the divisions used in Potts' Concordance. All these Minor Works are incomplete, and are evidently notes from which materials were drawn in the preparation of the works published by Swedenborg. Nevertheless, they are of great interest and value, oftentimes presenting the truth in a new and striking way.

[New Christian Bible Study Editor's Note: John Whitehead included 6 other minor works (Five Memorable Relations, Conversations with Angels, Justification and Good Works, A Conversation with Calvin, God the Saviour Jesus Christ, and Sketch of the Doctrine of the New Church) in a printed volume, which are not included in this online version. Instead, they are available as distinct works on the site.]

1. THE ENGLISH.

The English appear a little to the right, in front, in a plane just above the head. The light with them appears more interior than with others in the Christian world, by which light the spiritual is received which flows in from above. They see clearly in a moment what flows in, and at once receive it; nor do they let it down into their natural so grossly as others. Hence it is that the spiritual appears clear also in the natural; but with others more obscure. But they who are such, are those who have loved what is right and sincere, and have acted from truth and sincerity, and who at the same time have thought of God from religion.