Historical dream account · English · 1918 published translation
A way out of the unfinished house
Emanuel Swedenborg
Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four (1918) · Numbered sections 033; printed pages 19–19; night labelled April 2–3, 1744; 1918 Odhner translation
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Two persons came; they entered a house which, though built, was not yet furnished; they went about but did not seem favorable: we realized that our power was gone, and were afraid of them. One of them came to me and said that they intended to inflict a punishment on me the next Thursday before Easter, unless I made my escape. I did not know how to get out, but he told me he would show me the way. I awoke. It means that I, in an unprepared and untidy hut, had invited the highest beings to visit me, and that they had found it untidy and that I ought to be punished, but I was most graciously shown the way by which to avoid their wrath.
Night of April 2–3, 1744
Source & context
A historical sleep-dream account in the 1918 Odhner translation. The author’s own religious interpretations are preserved as part of his record, not presented as verified supernatural events or present-day clinical advice. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four, translated from Swedish by C.Th.Odhner (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania: Academy Book Room,1918), sections 033, pp.19–19. Historical sleep dream; the author’s own interpretation is retained.
The source labels a night spanning two calendar dates; no single exact event date is asserted.1744 is the journal year; 1918 is this translation’s publication year.
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Numbered sections 033; printed pages 19–19; night labelled April 2–3, 1744; 1918 Odhner translation
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Whitespace/punctuation spacing normalized; printed line-end word hyphens joined; numbered headings, page furniture and translator footnotes excluded. Explicit scan-verified OCR repairs only. Full selected account/continuation retained; English editorial navigation title added. This is the existing1918 translation, not a newly generated translation.
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