[This second section of threshold materials is a reconstruction of the lost text of Spiritual Experiences, paragraphs 1 to 148, 1:3, from the indexes and the "Bath Fragment."]
Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.
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These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have powerover waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will seeJerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.