of eyes, whether those of the spirit or the body, executed in their proper sphere. The man who can see the soul has done with abstract philosophy. The spiritual world is united to the natural by answerable links to the above. So long as the spiritual is kept by the philosophers, and consists of intuition and mathematical points we may well wonder if it be united with nature; for what love can consist between the starry firmaments on one hand and blank being on the other? There is freezing indifference on either side, and of course no union. The addition of an abstract idea to the world, is the world unaltered, though a little blurred; the sinking of the world in the idea, is on the other hand idealism or destruction of thought. There is every reason for 'civil war between the soul and the body,' and discord between the two worlds, under circumstances in which one party to the agreement is essentially unknown, But thanks be to God, spiritual sight has again saved us here."[1]
THE HISTORY OF OPINION.
What we need to be instructed in is, not merely that the soul is immortal, but what
- ↑ Emanuel Swedenborg. A biographical sketch by James John Garth Wilkinson, pp. 199, 200.
