ran from her eyes; her looks, her hands, her
voice, called him over to her, and at the same
time seemed to tell him that the river was
impassable." He plunges, nevertheless, into
the stream, and finding it to he nothing but
"the phantom of a river," crosses over, and
the spirit of his Yaratilda clasps him in her
arms. The spiritual world of the rude Indian
is exactly the spiritual world of Emanual
Swedenborg.

In the spiritual world of our earth, we are
told, the different nations form separate
communities as in the material world. The
"noble English nation," as Swedenborg pays
us the compliment to call us, have a great
city, like London, where the good reside; and
another great city, in the north, into which
"those who are inwardly wicked enter after
death. In the middle of it there is an open
communication with hell, by which the
inhabitants are absorbed in their turns."

He conversed with many remarkable men,
of whose condition in the world of spirits we
have some curious revelations. "I have
conversed with Melancthon, and questioned
him concerning his state; but he was not
willing to make any reply, wherefore I was
informed of his lot by others.

"They told me that he is in a fretted stone
chamber, and in hell alternately; and that in
his chamber he appears clad in a bear's skin
on account of the cold, and that such is the
filth there that he does not admit those
visitors from the world whom the repute of his
name inspires with a desire of seeing him.
He still speaks of faith alone, which in the
world he was foremost in establishing."

He also spoke with Calvin and Luther.
"Calvin was accepted in good society in
heaven, because he was honest and made no
disturbance. Luther is still in the world of
spirits, between heaven and hell, where he
sometimes undergoes great sufferings." He
conversed with Louis the Fourteenth, who,
"while he lived in the world, worshipped the
Lord, read the Word, and acknowledged the
Pope only as the head of the Church; in
consequence of which he has great dignity in the
spiritual world, and governs the best society
of the French nation." This interview,
Swedenborg adds, with great exactness,
"happened in the year 1759, on the 13th day of
December, about eight o'clock in the evening."
We cannot doubt the accuracy of an incident
the date of which is given with such precision:
and, in considering the earthly career
of the Grand Monarque, we are really glad to
hear that he is so well off.

There is a Jews' quarter in the spiritual
world. "They live in two cities, to which
they are led after death. In these cities
converted Jews are appointed over them, who
admonish them not to speak disrespectfully
of Christ, and punish those who persist in
doing so. The streets of their cities are filled
with mire up to the ankles, and their houses
are full of filth, and so offensive to the smell
that none can approach them. In the
spiritual world, as in the natural, they traffic in
various articles, especially precious stones,
which by unknown ways they procure for
themselves from heaven, where precious
stones exist in abundance. The reason of
their trade in precious stones is, that they
read the Word in its original language, and
hold the sense of its letter sacred; and
precious stones correspond to the sense of the
letter of the Word."

Into the theological tenets of the New
Jerusalem Church we are not inclined to
enter. They are derived from the
Swedenborgian interpretations of the Holy
Scriptures, founded on direct revelation. "Once,"
says Swedenborg, "Mary, the mother of God,
passed by, and appeared clothed in white
raiment." She gave the author some
information which we shall not quote. His ideas
of a future state may be gathered from the
preceding extracts. All those passages of
scripture which are generally supposed to
refer to the destruction of the world and the
final judgment, must, according to him, be
understood to mean the consummation of the
Christian Church and the establishment of
the New Jerusalem Church; an event which
he affirms was accomplished in the spiritual
world in the year 1757.

The extensive and long continued belief
commanded by the revelations and doctrines
of Swedenborg is a fact so curious, that it
has induced us to present these specimens to
the reader, unattended by our comments or
our opinions.

C H I P.

AN ELECTION BILL.

A CORRESPONDENT has been good enough
to forward to us a copy of the following
extraordinary publican's bill. It was sent to
Sir Marcus S——, a candidate, by a publican
after an election: