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 truths which are involved in the creation of the world, the fall of man, the flood, the story of the patriarchs, the bondage in Egypt, the return to Canaan, the history of the Jews, the dark sayings of the prophets, the incarnation and glorification of Christ, the end of the world, the last judgment, the descent of the new Jerusalem, and the second coming of the Lord.

This revelation of the spiritual sense is the genuine seal and warrant of his mission. By this alone is his claim to the sublimest seership recorded in the history of the race, to be tested. If he does not draw forth, by some interior illumination, a vast, coherent, comprehensive, pre-existing spiritual sense from the Word of God, then has he failed to substantiate his claims, and we may fairly discredit his statements on other matters. But if he has done this, if the spiritual sense illumines his pages, a further gift from the wisdom of the Divine Mind to man, to be seen by the pure in heart, and to be understood by the earnest, patient, candid, and humble seeker after Divine truth, then is Swedenborg the highest earthly authority on spiritual subjects.

It is because Swedenborg comes to us with the Bible in his hand, and proves his claims to our