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Show WHATEVER things a man sees and hears and is affected with, these are insinuated as to ideas and ends into his interior memory without his being aware of it, and there they remain, so that not anything perishes. The interior memory, therefore, is such that there are inscribed on it all the particular things which he has at any time thought, spoken or done, even such as have appeared to him as but a shadow, together with the most minute circumstances, and this from his earliest infancy to extreme old age. A man has with him the memory of all these things when he comes into the other life, and is brought successively into recollection of them. This is the book of his life which is opened in the other world, and according to which he is judged. A man can scarely [scarcely] believe this, but still it is most true. All his ends, which are even to himself in obscurity, all that he had thought, and likewise all that he had spoken and done, as derived from those ends are, to the most minute point, in that Book, that is in the interior memory.-Swedenborg. |