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 respect to the light of this world, as the light of the sun at noonday to that of a candle, which becomes invisible and as nothing when the sun rises."—A. C. 1053.

It cannot be denied, then, that the seer's disclosure on this subject, is altogether reasonable. Indeed we cannot conceive of an answer essentially different, that would at all satisfy the demands of reason.

Then there have been in different ages and countries many pious and trustworthy persons, whose spiritual eyes have been occasionally opened, and whose recorded experiences on such occasions agree entirely with Swedenborg's statements, and may be said therefore to furnish corroborative evidence of their truth. Cases like that, for example, recorded of the grandfather of Heinrich Jung Stilling in the latter's Autobiography (p. 22. Harper's edition); and that of Rev. Wm. Tenant of Freehold. New Jersey, who was apparently dead for several days, and after his resuscitation described what he saw while in that state; among other things "an ineffable glory"—a "glory all unutterable." (See Memoir of Rev. Wm. Tenant.) Dr. Passavent says: "Persons recovering from deep swoons and trances, frequently describe themselves as having been in this region of light—this light of the spirit, if I may so call it—this palace of light in which it dwells, which will hereafter be its proper light; for the physical or solar light which serves us while in the flesh, will be no longer needed." (Quoted in Mrs. Crowe's Night Side of Nature, vol, ii., p. 163.) And Dr. H. Werner (Doctor of Philosophy. Stuttgard and Tübingen), in his Guardian Spirits, tells of a seeress with whom he was intimate, and who, in her