unpremeditated building rises under an unseen hand into heavenly proportions, and becomes the only fitting abode of conscience, affection and religion. The witnesses agree. Swedenborg coming after them, not only repeats their testimony "I saw heaven opened" but claims a mental preparation in a half-century of scientific training, and a state of prolonged seership, enabling him to become familiar with the spiritual world as an explorer and an investigator, and thus to explain the visions of the prophets and to present a completed temple of spiritual science, into which their separate testimony fits with the perfect relation of truth. He tells us that the disclosures of the Bible mean this:
1. That what we call the soul is the man himself with an organized spiritual body, clothed upon with the physical body which is its perfect correlative and correspondent, and its adaptation to the plane of nature for primary development and education, but passing, when uncased by death, into sensible cognizance of the spiritual world; that is
2. Into a world of spiritual substances and forms, phenomenal to spiritual sensation, and related to the outer universe as
