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 forms. God flows forth continually with love, wisdom, peace, joy, for all his creatures. They turn themselves away from Him, and all his blessings are turned into their opposites. Love is turned into hate; the true into the false; heat into cold; light into darkness; peace into strife; joy into sorrow; pleasure into pain.

The views of Swedenborg about the spiritual world and the spiritual senses are forcibly illustrated and confirmed by the developments of Mesmerism and Biology, all of which have been made since Swedenborg unfolded the principles of psychology, from which alone they can be understood. He explains in the most satisfactory manner the phenomena of thought-reading, clairvoyance, magnetic vision, magnetic hearing, the transference of sensations, the induction of fantasy and the influence of spheres. These wonderful phenomena, although as well authenticated as anything can be, are still discredited by the theologians, metaphysicians and scientists of the old schools, because they can neither explain nor use them. That order of minds which would not and could not believe, "though one rose from the dead," is not yet extinct."