Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... TIIE PHENOMENAL AND THE REAL, OR THE SENSUOUS APPEARANCE AND THE DIVINE REALITY. It is a principle of great importance, unfolded by Swedenborg, that there is apparent truth and real truth. An intelligent and affectional reception of his teachings will raise one from that lower intellectual range where only seeming truth is perceived, to that higher position where truth is seen as it is. There is the phenomenal, or things as they appear to the senses of the natural man, and the real, or things as they appear to the spiritual mind, or to enlightened reason. He justly observes, that "To think spiritually, is to think of things as they essen-
