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EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE two preceding volumes of this series contain a resumé of Swedenborg's pneumatology, given in pertinent extracts from his own writings. Nothing essential to a clear understanding of the seer's claim, and of his doctrine concerning spirits and the spiritual world, is there omitted. And the editor only asks that the essential facts, laws and phenomena of that world as there disclosed (professedly, be it remembered, "from things heard and seen"), be carefully examined in the light of reason, Scripture, human experience, the accepted laws of man's intellectual and moral constitution and their obvious practical tendency.

The present volume, though treating of a different class of subjects and embracing a wide range, will nevertheless be found on examination to be in admirable harmony with the whole spirit, philosophy and doctrine of the preceding ones, — yea, part and parcel of the same beautiful and majestic system of rational religious truth.

In forming his estimate of the correctness and value of the announcements contained in these pages, the

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