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is our quest? A man fitted by birthright and by training of heart and mind to recognize the sign of the Son of Man in the clouds of perverted Scripture, that have darkened human reason and withdrawn the light of faith. And here we have Emanuel Swedenborg of such birthright, with devotion of his life to the advancement of mankind, led through severest mathematical, mechanical, and philosophical reasoning—without as yet any consciousness of special guidance or purpose—to absolute demonstration in his own mind of the necessity and the existence of the Divine Son of Man, to be sought and found by us in the Holy Scriptures. But let us wait. Scientific and philosophic studies are not yet completed. Twelve years more are to be devoted to them before the mission is Divinely signified to him of revealing this Son of Man in His Word.

The Economy of the Animal Kingdom,