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 Interspersed, however, with the chapters, are short treatises on many kindred subjects, some doctrinal and others descriptive of the other world.

The original Latin edition of the Arcana was completed in 1758 in eight large quarto volumes, published in London. During this period of eleven years nothing else was published by the author, and little else written save many volumes of notes of his spiritual experience. These have since been published by his friends both in Latin and in English, under the title of his Spiritual Diary, and the most important of their contents are to be found here and there as needed in his own publications.