The spiritual man sees his spiritual fellows far better than the terrestrial man sees the men of earth.

In describing the wonders of heaven and beneath the heavens I obey the Lord's command.

Others have the right to believe me or not as they choose.

I cannot put them into the state in which God has put me; it is not in my power to enable them to converse with Angels, nor to work miracles within their understanding; they alone can be the instrument of their rise to angelic intercourse.

It is now twenty-eight years since I have lived in the Spiritual world with angels, and on earth with men; for it pleased God to open the eyes of my spirit as he did that of Paul, and of Daniel and Elisha.' "And yet," continued the pastor, thoughtfully, "certain persons have had visions of the spiritual world through the complete detachment which somnambulism produces between their external form and their inner being.
'In this state,' says Swedenborg in his treatise on Angelic Wisdom (No.