Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, By THEOPHILUS PARSONS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusets CHAS. H. CROSBY, PR., 5 & 7 WATER ST. I have concluded to publish these slight and hastily-written papers for the little good that they may do, but with great reluctance from the fear that their faults and imperfections may be attributed to the System of Truth, of which they present a few portions. Whatsoever is found in them new and just and interesting, belongs to that system; and the obscurities which mingle with the light I have endeavored to borrow, are my own. I call them Essays, only for want of another name; for if I knew one of less significance I should certainly adopt it. They have been somewhat circulated in manuscript, the purpose for which I began to write them, and I have yielded to the advice of others and put them in print, only in the hope that they may sometimes lead a reader to seek in the writings of Swedenborg and in the WORD as it is resplendent with the light which these writings unveil, the Truth that is now descending from Heaven. BOSTON, 1845. T. P. |