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 "Was he mad at all!" asks some independent thinker, who has been delighted with the doctrine of correspondences, and the wonderful result of its application to the abstrusest problems in philosophy and science.

"He was the messenger of God!" murmurs the Christian who has seen the spiritual sense of the Divine Word break forth in dazzling splendor from his pages.

These questions may not be settled to every one's satisfaction within the next century. But in less than half that time the popular estimate of Swedenborg and his teachings will be very different from what it now is. Why are his disclosures not accepted now? When this philosophy and theology of the angels is presented to intelligent and Christian men, scientists, philosophers and theologians, all earnestly engaged in the study of or search after truth, why is it not immediately recognized and acknowledged?

Something else is needed for the recognition of truth besides its mere presentation.

Our question will be readily answered by recalling some of the profound psychological truths which Swedenborg himself has given us.

A man's love is his life. The delight which he