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 analyzed as a new substance. The misrepresentations about him will be detected; the exaggerations discarded; the rubbish cleared away; and the facts brought out into full view.

It will then be discovered that the science of correspondences is the key to all other sciences, and that a spiritual sense pervades the Word of God, elevating the minds of men into somewhat of angelic light. It will be made so plain that none can question it.

This clear-cut, geometrical demonstration of the truths of the New Church will be, however, only the first or preliminary proceeding. It cannot make any man believe them or love them until some affections of the soul are excited to sympathetic relations with them.

What are these affections? In the first place, the love of the beautiful. Who does not know the sweet and pleasing sensations which are created in the perceptive faculties by the beauties of nature, by the sight of flower-gardens and green lawns, of the blue mountains in the distance, the far roll of the emerald sea, the golden sky of evening, and the boundless dome of night crowded with its celestial fires? There are similar sensations of delight in the contemplation of great truths. The