OPENING OF SPIRITUAL SIGHT
tures. I was amazed, for I was perfectly conscious and my thoughts were clear. At last the darkness increased still more; but it disappeared all at once, and I then saw a man sitting in the corner of the room: as I was then alone I was very much frightened at his words; for he said, 'Eat not so much.' All became black again before my eyes, but immediately it cleared away and I found myself alone in the room."
That this "man" was a spirit appears from Swedenborg's statement about his astonishment when a spirit first spoke a few words to him, and from Robsahm's own statement that this account was given in answer to his inquiry where and how he first came to see and hear spirits. It would seem then that Robsahm has made a little confusion in what he goes on to say about the same man's appearing the following night. And yet as, according to Swedenborg, when the Lord appears to angels and men, He does so by filling an angel with His presence and speaking through his mouth, it may be that it was the same angel from the Lord who had been present with him in the spiritual thoughts on which he was engaged in the day-time, and then warned him not
