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 He then announces that "," and goes on to describe the manner of that intensely interesting and important event, as seen by him, when, in the providence of the Lord, his spiritual sight was opened for that purpose. In the first paragraph of this account he says: "It was shown above, in the article for the purpose, that the last judgment does not exist on the earth, but in the spiritual world, where all who have lived from the beginning of creation are together; and since it is so, it is impossible for any man to know when the last judgment is accomplished, for every one expects it to exist on earth, accompanied by a change of all things in the visible heaven, and in the countries of the earth and in mankind who dwell there.—Lest therefore the man of the church from ignorance should live in such a belief, and lest they who think of a last judgment should expect it for ever, whence at length the belief of those things which are said of it in the literal sense of the Word must perish, and lest haply therefore many should recede from their faith in the Word, it has been granted me to see with my own eyes that the last judgment is now accomplished; that the evil are cast into the hells, and the good elevated into heaven, and thus that all things are reduced into order, the spiritual equilibrium between good and evil, or between heaven and hell being thence restored. It was granted me to see from beginning to end how the last judgment was accomplished, and also how the Babylon was destroyed, how those who are understood by the dragon were cast into the abyss, and how the new heaven was formed, and a new church instituted in the heavens, which is understood by the New Jerusalem. It was granted me to see all these things with my own eyes, in order that I might be able to testify of them. This last judgment was commenced in the beginning of the year 1757, and was fully accomplished at the end of that year."—Last Judgment, n. 45. Then follows a clear, truthful and life-like description of those judgment scenes, by which all things in the world of spirits were reduced to order, and a way was opened for the establishment of a new and better order of things in the natural world.

We are thus furnished with an amount of evidence which though very imperfectly presented, on the foregoing pages,