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In addition to the class of writings that explain the Word, which we have called Exegetical, there are the Supplementary writings. These set forth not only the true philosophy of nature and spirit, the laws of Divine Providence, the doctrine of life, the constitution of the natural universe, but also they present the fundamental facts appertaining to the spiritual world and life there.

We can not in this short space reproduce these things here, for they should be examined in the entirety and completeness of their original presentation.

The spiritual world is no longer a mystery. Having lived consciously in the spiritual world for twenty-seven years, Swedenborg was prepared to tell about that world as would a traveller from a foreign land.

It is often said that we can not know