Historical dream account · English · 1918 published translation
The dark road opens onto woods and sky
Emanuel Swedenborg
Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four (1918) · Numbered sections 036; printed pages 20–20; night labelled April 3–4, 1744; 1918 Odhner translation
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I experienced nothing the whole night, although I repeatedly woke up; I thought everything was past and gone, and that I was forsaken or driven away. Towards the morning it seemed to me I was riding, and the direction was shown to me, but when I looked it was dark, and I found I had lost my way on account of the darkness. But then it lightened up and I saw that I had gone wrong; I saw the road and the forests and groves to which I should travel, and behind them the sky. I awoke. There came then a thought, as it were spontaneous, about the first life, and, in consequence, about the other life, and it seemed to me everything was full of grace. I fell a-weeping because I had not been loving but rather had offended Him who has led me and shown me the way even unto the kingdom of grace, and that I, unworthy one, have been received into grace.
Night of April 3–4, 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 036, pp.20–20. 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 036; printed pages 20–20; night labelled April 3–4, 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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