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12 ." In pursuing this method he arrived at certain generalizations, or as he called them "new doctrines," by which he hoped to pass from the material organism of the body, to a knowledge of the soul which is immaterial. Chief among these was the doctrine of Correspondence, resting upon the equally philosophic and scientific doctrines of Series, Orders, Degrees and Modifications. This doctrine of Correspondence as held by him and used in these investigations is thus stated by Mr. Sewall:

Swedenborg hoped by the aid of this doctrine, bending his course inward