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essay is in fulfilment of the author's promise to set forth the doctrine of Swedenborg in some of its bearings on "Christian Science" and Metaphysical healing. It is hoped also that it may incite to further and fuller study of a subject that is exhaustless, and which in the otherwise abundant literature of the New Church has not so far received proportionate treatment. Above all, the writer indulges a hope that it may prove to those who are interested in these high themes, and who have had their eyes turned expectantly to the writings of Swedenborg, something of a guide and guard against error.

We are living in the days of the Second Coming of the Lord, in which a new thing has happened in the world. A rational revelation concerning God and man and the spiritual world has been given by means of a man prepared to receive it and publish it; and the Divine truths involved aforetime in the Word of God are now evolved by means of the principles and doctrines so revealed. It is a