El Caballo Blanco, del que habla el Apocalipsis en el capítulo 19.

Con particulares referentes a la Palabra y a su sentido espiritual o interno y después sobre la Palabra y su Sentido Espiritual o Interno, extraído de la obra “Arcanos Celestiales”.

Por Emanuel Swedenborg.

Traducción del Dr. L. E. Calleja, Revisado por Daniel Calvo Naranjo y pelo Rev. Johnny Villanueva

Heavenly Doctrine Publishing Foundation, Kempton, Pennsylvania, Diciembre, 2021

Prefacio para la traducción al español de la obra El Caballo Blanco y Apéndice

Este trabajo fue escrito y publicado originalmente en latin por Emanuel Swedenborg en el año 1758. Un apéndice fue escrito por Swedenborg como una carta al Rev. Thomas Hartley hacia fines de 1769. Y hace aproximadamente 100 años, el Dr. L. E. Callega de Méjico tradujo este trabajo y su apéndice para el idioma español de una traducción en ingles realizada por el Rev. John Whitehead. El Dr. Callega hizo algunas comparaciones con el latín, pero su traducción se guió bien de cerca de la traducción en ingles. Recientemente, esta traducción al español fue descubierta en la Escuela de Religión de Swedenborg, y se hizo una copia del texto mecanografiado de Callega. En el verano de 2021, esto fue transcrito al formato digital y revisado por Daniel Calvo Narajo para la Fundación de Publicaciones de la Doctrina Celestial, y luego revisado por el Rev. Johnny Villanueva, un nativo de Perú que ahora se desempeña como pastor en la Sociedad de la Nueva Iglesia en Rio de Janeiro.

Aunque estamos seguros de que se pueden hacer mejoras, ya que esto fue traducido a principio del idioma inglés, creemos que esta traducción podrá transmitir la Doctrina Celestial contenida en este trabajo, sobre el sentido espiritual de la Sagrada Escritura, al mundo de habla hispana. Esperamos tener esto listo, en poco tiempo, para ser publicado por la prensa, pero por ahora parece mejor compartir esto con el público en forma electrónica. Si desea una copia de este archivo en formato PDF, o desea compartirlo con otras personas, comuníquese con la Fundación de Publicaciones de la Doctrina Celestial. Si tiene sugerencias o correcciones, háganoslo saber.

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English Preface to the Spanish Translation of the White Horse and to the Appendix to this work.

This work was originally written and published in Latin by Emanuel Swedenborg in the year 1758. An appendix or addendum to this work was written by Swedenborg as a letter to Rev. Thomas Hartley towards the end of 1769. About 100 years ago Dr. L. E. Calleja of Mexico translated this work, and the appendix to it, into Spanish from the English translation by the Rev. John Whitehead. Dr. Calleja did check the Latin as he went, but his translation closely follows the English. Recently this Spanish translation was discovered at the Swedenborg School of Religion, and a copy was made of Calleja’s typescript. In the summer of 2021, this was transcribed into the computer and revised by Daniel Calvo Naranjo for the Heavenly Doctrine Publishing Foundation, and then further revised by the Rev. Johnny Villanueva, a native of Peru now serving as Pastor of the New Church Society in Rio de Janeiro.

Although we are sure improvements can be made, as this was originally translated from English, it is felt it that this translation will be able to transmit the Heavenly Doctrine contained in this work about the spiritual sense of the Sacred Scripture to the Spanish speaking world. We hope to have this ready to publish by the press in a short while, but for now it seems best to share this work with the public in electronic form. If you would like a copy of this file as a PDF, or would like to share it others, please contact the Heavenly Doctrine Publishing Foundation. If you have suggestions or corrections, please let us know.

Andrew James Heilman, Secretary, HDPF

Kempton, Pennsylvania -- November, 2021

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CONTENIDOS

i. La Palabra y su sentido espiritual o interno, 1-5

ii. La necesidad y excelencia de la Palabra, 6

iii. La Palabra no puede ser entendida sino por aquellos que están iluminados, 7

iv. La Palabra no puede ser entendida sino por medio de la doctrina sacada de la misma Palabra, 8

v. En la Palabra hay un sentido espiritual, que es llamado sentido interno, 9

vi. El sentido interno de la Palabra es entendido principalmente por los ángeles, y también por los hombres, 10

vii. En el sentido interno o espiritual de la Palabra hay innumerables arcanos, 11

viii. La Palabra está escrita por correspondencias y también por representaciones, 12

ix. El sentido literal o externo de la Palabra, 13

x. El Señor es la Palabra, 14

xi. Los que están contra la Palabra, 15

xii. Los libros de la Palabra, 16

xiii. Más particulares respecto de la Palabra, 17

Apéndice al Tratado sobre El Caballo Blanco

5319. 'And clothed him in robes of fine linen' means an outward sign denoting the celestial of the spiritual, 'robes of fine linen' being truths going forth from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'robes' as truths, dealt with in 1073, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248. The reason 'robes of fine linen' means truths going forth from the Divine is that a robe made of fine linen was absolutely white and at the same time shining, and truth going forth from the Divine is represented by robes which have that kind of brightness and splendour. And the reason for this is that heaven derives its brightness and splendour from the light that flows from the Lord; and the light that flows from the Lord is Divine Truth itself, 1053, 1521-1533, 1619-1632, 1776, 3195, 3222, 3339, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3862, 4415, 4419, 4526, 5219. This explains why, when the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James, and John, His clothing appeared as the light, Matthew 17:2; glistening, intensely white like snow, as no fuller on earth could bleach them, Mark 9:3; and dazzling, Luke 9:29. It was Divine Truth itself going forth from the Lord's Divine Human that was represented in this manner. But they are exterior truths that are represented in heaven by the brightness of robes, whereas interior truths are represented by the brightness and splendour of the face. This is why 'being clothed in robes of fine linen' at this point means an outward sign denoting truth going forth from the celestial of the spiritual, for this was what the Lord's Divine consisted in at this time.

[2] There are other places too in the Word where truth going forth from the Divine is meant by 'fine linen' and 'robes of fine linen', as in Ezekiel,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shed you with badger, and swathed you in fine linen, and covered you in silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver, and your robes were fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth. Ezekiel 16:10, 13.

This refers to Jerusalem, which is used in these verses to mean the Ancient Church. The truths of this Church are described by robes made of embroidered cloth, fine linen, and silk, and by being adorned with gold and silver. 'Embroidered cloth' means truths existing as facts, 'fine linen' natural truths, and 'silk' spiritual truths.

[3] In the same prophet,

Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you an ensign; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Ezekiel 27:7.

This refers to Tyre, which too is used to mean the Ancient Church, but so far as cognitions of good and truth are concerned. 'Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, which was its sail' means truth obtained from factual knowledge, which was the outward sign of that Church.

[4] In John,

The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over Babylon, since no one buys their wares any more, wares of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and bronze, and iron, and marble. Revelation 18:11-12.

All the specific commodities mentioned here mean the kinds of things that have to do with the Church and so truth and goodness. Here however they are used in the contrary sense because they are spoken of in reference to Babylon. Anyone may see that such commodities would never have been listed in the Word which has come down from heaven unless each one held something heavenly within it. What other reason can there be for a list of worldly wares when Babylon, meaning an unholy Church, is the subject? Similarly in the same book,

Woe, woe, the great city, you that were clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, covered ¹ with gold, and precious stones, and pearls. Revelation 18:16.

[5] The fact that each commodity means something Divine and heavenly is quite evident in the same book where it states what fine linen is, namely the righteous acts of the saints,

The time of the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. At that time she was given fine linen, clean and shining, to wear; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Revelation 19:7-8.

'Fine linen' is 'the righteous acts of the saints' for the reason that all those with whom truth received from the Divine exists are clothed with the Lord's righteousness. For their robes which are bright and shining are products of the light which flows from the Lord. Therefore in heaven truth itself is represented by 'brightness', 3301, 3997, 4007; and people who are being raised to heaven from a state of vastation are seen to be clothed with brightness because they are at this point casting off the robe of their own righteousness and putting on that of the Lord's righteousness.

[6] So that truth from the Divine might be represented in the Jewish Church, they were commanded to use cotton or fine linen in Aaron's vestments, and also in the curtains around the Ark, referred to in Moses as follows,

You shall make in chequered pattern for Aaron a tunic of cotton, and you shall make a turban of cotton. Exodus 28:39.

They made tunics of cotton, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and his sons. Exodus 39:27.

You shall make the Dwelling-place, ten curtains - fine-twined cotton, violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet. Exodus 26:1; 36:8.

You shall make the court of the Dwelling-place. The hangings for the court shall be of fine-twined cotton. Exodus 27:9, 18; 38:9.

The screen for the gate of the court, the work of an embroiderer, violet and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine-twined cotton. Exodus 38:18.

Cotton is fine linen, which they were commanded to use because each object in the Ark and around the Ark, also every detail of Aaron's vestments, were representative of spiritual and celestial realities. From this one may see that a person has only a meagre understanding of the Word if he does not know what such things represent, and scarcely any understanding at all if he thinks that the Word possesses no holiness other than that which presents itself in the letter.

[7] When angels with whom truth from the Divine is present are seen by anyone they are clothed so to speak in fine linen, that is, in shining brightness, as is evident in John where 'a white horse' is referred to,

The One seated on a white horse was clothed in a garment dyed with blood, and His name is called the Word. His armies in heaven were following Him on white horses; they were clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Revelation 19:11, 13-14.

These words show quite plainly that 'fine linen' is an outward sign denoting truth from the Divine, for 'the One seated on a white horse' is the Lord as to the Word; indeed those words state quite explicitly that He is the Word. The Word is truth itself received from the Divine, and 'a white horse' is the internal sense of the Word, see 2760-2762. Consequently truths received from the Divine are meant by 'white horses', for such truths constitute the whole of the internal sense of the Word. This was why His armies were seen 'on white horses' and why 'they were clothed in fine linen, white and clean'.

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