15.Plates 21-22
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident
insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning：
Thus Swedenborg boasts that what he writes is new; tho' it is
only the Contents or Index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew, ＆ because he was a
little wiser than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself
as much wiser than seven men. It is so with Swedenborg; he shews
the folly of churches ＆ exposes hypocrites, till he imagines
that all are religious, ＆ himself the single one on earth that
ever broke a net.
Now hear a plain fact： Swedenborg has not written one new truth：
Now hear another： he has written all the old falshoods.
And now hear the reason. He conversed with Angels who are all
religious, ＆ conversed not with Devils who all hate religion,
for he was incapable thro' his conceited notions.
Thus Swedenborgs writings are a recapitulation of all
superficial, opinions, and an analysis of the more sublime, but
no further.
Have now another plain fact： Any man of mechanical talents may
from the writings of Paracelsus or Jacob Behmen, produce ten
thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborgs, and from those
of Dante or Shakespear, an infinite number.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better
than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
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