La Vérité - par Sir Emanuel Swedenborg

The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, part II, chapter III, The Human Soul, extraits:

Numéros 217-218, pp. 209-210:

“217. We may consider it as an established fact, that when any one attains the truth, all experience. both general and particular, will be in his favor, and give him its suffrage; and that all the rules and decisions of rational philosophy will naturally and spontanously do the same; and that various systems will so come into agreement and unity with each other, that each will be confirmed thereby; for there is no system but is built upon ascertained phenomena, and upon such principles as will enable us to reconcile the higher sphere with the lower, and the spiritual with the corporeal.  When truth herself walks forth to the light, and comes upon stage, then conjectures disappear, and the spectres seen and imagined in the dark are dissipated. There is no difficulty that she does not remove; no mortal that she fears; no rock on which she founders; To her it is given to look into the holy of holies, though not to enter it; for the truth of nature, and the truth of revelation, however separate, are never at variance. But in order that the truth may be brought to light, - a consummation which we all devoutly wish, - I would observe that its habitation is so inward and exalted, that it will not permit itself to be revealed to any who are still lingering in the last and lowest sphere,  but to those only who have brought their mind into the habit of thinking, who can extend, and apply, their mental vision throughout the whole order of confirmatory facts; and, in the perception of consequences, remove it far from the senses and the lower affections. But this power is not granted to all, for Cicero says: “The divine mind ... has taken account for those only whom it has endowed with right reason.“ (De Naturâ Deorum, lib. iii, paragraphe 27);  and its exercice would at once deprive the lower faculties of their pleasant and desirable ease; - and hence many stubbornly refuse to stir a step beyond visible phenomena for the sake of the truth; and others prefer to drown their ideas in the occult at the very outset. To these two classes our demonstration may not be acceptable. For, in regard to the former, it asserts, that the truth is to be sought far beyond the range of the eye; and, in regard to the latter, that in all the nature of things there is no such thing as an occult quality; in fact that there is nothing but either already the subject of demonstration, or capable of becoming so."

“218. Theses remarks are not made with a view to derogate from the authority or credit due to the lucubrations of others, adorned, as they are, with genius and the sciences; for every one, in proportion as he approaches the truth, deserves his own laurel. Of what consequence is it to me that I should persuade any one to embrace my opinions? Let his own reason persuade him. I do not undertake this work for the sake of honor or emolument; both of which I shun rather than seek, because they disquiet the mind, and because I am content with my lot: but for the sake of the truth, which alone is immortal, and has its portion in the most perfect order of nature; hence in the series only of the ends of the universe from the first to the last, which is the glory of God; which ends He promotes: thus I surely know Who it is that must reward me. I will now arrange the first fruits of my psychological labors into chapters, according to the method hitherto adopted".

Yes Sir. Thank you Sir.

Amélie Chambour, Ostéopathe