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 He says:

"Now it came to pass that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God."

With his spiritual sight thus opened into heaven, he describes his wonderful experiences, one of which was the following:

"And when I looked, behold! a hand was sent unto me; and lo! a roll of a book was therein;

"And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without."

Some spiritual writings are composed wholly of numbers following one after another, like words. This seems utterly incomprehensible to the natural man; but such writings convey to those who have the key of correspondence, ideas which are wholly incommunicable by speech. All the numbers in the Bible represent spiritual states and qualities, which have been so clearly unfolded by Swedenborg, that one who has been blest with light from that source can readily imagine that whole volumes of spiritual ideas may be conveyed by numbers arranged in certain series and orders.

In diseased states of the body, when the orderly connection and influx of the soul is partially interrupted, we frequently have the strangest mental phenomena, which receive great light from the