What is to be gained, therefore, by an examination of something which can neither be proved nor disproved? Will it not be a waste of time?
But when, after thorough and careful study of Swedenborg's theological system. I found myself compelled by irresistible force of evidence to accept it for just what it claims to be—a divinely authorized revelation of new and heavenly truth. I was satisfied that he was a man ordained and sent of God, and that his disclosures concerning Heaven and Hell must also be true. Then turning my attention to his pneumatology, I very soon found that this, too, rests on a foundation not less solid and secure than his theology; and that its truth is susceptible of proof to an extent I had not suspected—susceptible of a verification, indeed, closely approximating the demonstrations of exact science.
The purpose of the present volume is, to lay before the reader some of the evidence which carried conviction to the writer's own mind, that what Swedenborg has revealed concerning the heaven of angels is no mere fancy sketch, but literally and unquestionably true. A number of reliable and independent witnesses have been summoned in the case, such as Scripture, reason, analogy, human experience, the known laws of our mental and moral constitution, the hopes and perceptions of the wisest and best men, the revealed character of the Heavenly Father, and the
