Deterioration of the Puritan stock : and its causes / by John Ellis.

  • John Ellis
Date:
1884
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    “To drink, spiritually, denotes to lie instructed in truths, and in the opposite sense in falses, thus to imbue them; hence it is manifest what is meant by ? a cup from which drink is received : to lie drunken denotes to become thence 1 insane. * * * In this passage is described the man of the Ancient Church, who is Noah; the wine which he drank, and with which he was v made drunken, denotes the false principle with which that Church in the . beginning was imbued. » * * Moreover, the wine with which Noah was made drunken, signifies what is false.”—Arcana C<rlestia, 9960. We are told that celestial goods and truths are dis-i: sipated by fermentation (see Arcana Caelestia, No. 10137), precisely as we know that the good and nourishing parts of the juice of the grape, which correspond to goods and truths, and which nourish the natural body as the latter do the spiritual body, are dissipated by natural fermentation. - In neither case are the good and useful things annihilated; but spiritually the good and true are perverted into the evil and false; and naturally the corresponding substances in the juice of the grape are changed into alcohol and other poisonous substances, which correspond to evils and falses. There is the most wonderful correspondence not only be- tween all natural and spiritual things, but also between all natural and spiritual processes, changes and products; the natural answering to the spiritual in every particular. There is no question but that the blood and juice of grapes, flowing or pressed from the fruit, have a good sig- nificance—indeed, the very highest. Chemistry shows that they contain, in perhaps greater perfection, those substances which are required to warm and nourish the human body, and hold a closer analogy to human blood, than does the juice of any other fruit. There is no other liquid organized by the Lord in the vegetable kingdom, that bears the name or likeness or constituents of blood in an equal degree. In the writings of Swedenborg it is shown that it corres- ponds to “ every genuine truth derived from the good of love to the Lord,” and “every good and truth of the ex- ternal and internal man.’’ “All the truth of the Church”| (see A. C., 10137) finds its correspondence in this “new wine,” the fresh juice of the grape, or the same preserved from fermentation. When the Lord instituted His most Holy Supper, it was
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