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212 Such proved to be the case. A good deal of the furor theologicus script is in an angular, slashing, obscure style, rather typical of certain automatic scripts.



Contrast the above with a sample of Swedenborg's best normal writing, from a page of the manuscript of a book on the mind-body relationship, written throughout in the same rounded, harmonious way.33 It was written about four or five years previous to The Word Explained, but the same kind of writing can be found in his personal letters even many years later, and even in other pages of The Word Explained,34 those in which Swedenborg asserts that he is being told these things by heavenly beings, the ideas however, being very close to his own Neoplatonic sentiments.



The Librarian having generously given permission for several photostats to be made from the manuscripts, it seemed interesting