ter." In pursuing this method he arrived at certain generalizations, or as he called them "new doctrines," by which he hoped to pass from the material organism of the body, to a knowledge of the soul which is immaterial. Chief among these was the doctrine of Correspondence, resting upon the equally philosophic and scientific doctrines of Series, Orders, Degrees and Modifications. This doctrine of Correspondence as held by him and used in these investigations is thus stated by Mr. Sewall:
"Correspondence as seen in the plane of nature only (and it was only on this plane that Swedenborg up to this time had discovered it,) consists in such a mutual adaptation of inner and outer, higher and lower, grosser and more subtle spheres or bodies, that there may be a reception, communication and transference of motions and affections from one to the other. It is therefore the name we give to that kind of intercourse which is not bodily influx, or to the union that exists, not by continuity or confusion of substance, but by contiguity and modification of state. It is the relation of the affluent waves of ether to the eye; of the eye to the sensory fiber; of the fiber to the cortical gland; of the gland to the common sensory; of the sensory to the imagination; of the imagination to the intellect; of the intellect to the soul; of the soul to God. By correspondence the outer affects the inner without becoming one with it; by correspondence things totally different in degree and in substance are nevertheless so adapted that motions or tremulous vibrations in one may be continued through the other, or converted into some modification of the other's state. So the soul corresponds in general and in every particular to its body."
Swedenborg hoped by the aid of this doctrine, bending his course inward continual-
