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 state of trance, often spoke of seeing a bright Sun and of being in its light. On one occasion she says: "I see the Sun, and these beings quite different from men—much more pure and noble—are not in the Sun, . . but I see them in the neighborhood of the Sun. O, if it were so fair, so glorious on the earth below, as here where there are no human passions, it were then good to live there. This whole life above consists of love. Everything that is and is done here, proceeds from love. This principle makes all the happiness that reigns here above." (p. 30, '1. New York edition, 1847.)

Numerous facts like these are accessible, and from sources perfectly authentic. And while they harmonize with, and go to confirm the truth of, Swedenborg's statements, they at the same time find in his revealings their only rational and philosophical explanation.

And turning to the Bible we find still further confirmation of the truth of his statements. We find there a record of facts which it is impossible rationally to explain upon any other theory than that furnished by his pneumatology. Take, for example, the phenomenon recorded in Exodus (24th chapter), when Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu were called to "come up unto the Lord." It is there said that "the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai; and the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel." And this, too, although the Lord's glory was veiled by a cloud to the multitude who stood gazing at the foot of the mount. What must have been the appearance of that glory to Moses who went up into the mount and