sons being competent to appropriate tunes to the variety of measures contained in the Hymn-Book. Dr. Rippon's Selection of Tunes is perhaps the most popular in London; it contains tunes adapted to every measure excepting two-those of the 21st and the 29th Hymn, and four other Hymns of the same metres. Any friend will be furnished with the list, on application in the vestries of either of the chapels in London, or on personal application to Mr. Granger, at the New Jerusalem Church Free School, in Waterloo Road. The Brightlingsea Anniversary will be held, this year and in future, on the fourth Monday in June, which falls this year on the 27th; when the members of the New Church in that place and St. Osyth will feel gratified by being visited by as many of the friends of the heavenly cause from other places as can make it convenient to attend. OBITUARY. DIED, on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Crumpsall, near Manchester, in the 76th year of his age Mr. Charles Bowker. He was one of the oldest members of the New Church in that part of the country, having been a receiver of its heavenly doctrines nearly fifty years. He embraced the truth in consequence of having been led, as it were by accident, to St. John's Church, Manchester, a few years after the Rev. J. Clowes became the Rector; and for nearly forty years afterwards he was scarcely ever absent from morning service in the same place of worship, whatever might be the season or the weather, except in cases of urgent necessity, though he lived nearly four miles distant. Though confined to his bed for the last two months, he never uttered a complaint, till, without a groan, he breathed out his soul into the hands of him who gave it. In him, the inestimable qualities of the good master, the kind husband, the affectionate father, and the sincere Christian, were happily united.* C. B. AT Birmingham, on the morning of March 2nd, in the 90th year of his age, Dr. John Mather, who had been most cordial receiver of the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, for more than fifty years. He was first introduced to those inestimable writings by seeing the treatise on Heaven and Hell advertised in the newspaper, about the time of its first publication, upon being translated into the English language. Curiosity led him to purchase it; and its perusal convinced him of the truth of its contents. This excited in him an ardent desire to be furnished with all the other theological works of the illuminated author; and he ever prized them *We have taken the liberty greatly to abridge the notice which was forwarded to us of this respected character; it having already appeared in another Publication. above all others, except the Holy Word, the next rank to which they held in his esteem. He read them in the Latin, and studied them daily for a long course of years. He constantly referred to them as a rule of life, and manifested great zeal in recommending them to others. He was a correspondent of the venerable Hartley, and the ties of friendship were formed between them, though they never saw each other. During a considerable portion of his life he practised as a physician in Bedfordshire, in which capacity he was peculiarly eminent and successful. We are obliged to omit our "Varieties," this Number having extended, as it is, to 20 pages beyond the regular quantity. POETRY. OMNI TULIT PUNCTUM QUI MISCUIT UTILE DULCI. LINES OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH of a LADY. NOT to the gloomy grave descend Not to the grave; she is not there, From God descended, and was given Not to the grave-but lift your eyes Like her, do we with patience bear, Endurance, kindness; we shall find, Like her, angelic peace of mind Supporting, cheering, all the way Thro' this life's short and changeful day. W. T. To Correspondents. We should be glad, if agreeable to the author of the Retrospections, to see a little more into the nature of his plan, by inspecting another No. or two of them. THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY FOR The New Church. NEW SERIES.-No. VII.-JULY, 1825. To the Editors of the Intellectual Repository. GENTLEMEN, WITH this note you will receive a translation of the latter part of the epilogue to the second part of the Regnum Animale of our illustrious E. Swedenborg, but I am sorry to be under the necessity of detaching it from the former part. Yet that such necessity exists, must be obvious, from the consideration, that the former part cannot possibly be comprehended by your readers, unless they be first acquainted with the author's previous treatises on the several organs and viscera of the human body, to which, in that part he is continually referring. Hoping that a sufficient apology will be found in this consider. ation for my omission of the former part of the epilogue, and not doubting but that your readers will be disposed, by the interest they take in the latter part, to admit this apology, I remain, gentlemen, Leamington Priors, April 4, 1825. Respectfully your's, J. C. EXTRACT FROM THE EPILOGUE TO THE SECOND PART OF THE REGNUM ANIMALE OF E. S. SINCE therefore we have been introduced into that life, which, from its ultimate barriers, tends back to first principles, it has hence come to pass that we are born into the densest shade, being No. VII.-VOL. I. 3 Y ignorant of every thing, and thus in a state of the merest infancy, inasmuch as the bodily forces, which are now the principal agents, have no sensation of their own: thus, in the early part of infancy, we have little or no life, for to live is to have sensation yet this little or no life receives increase, grows up to maturity, and is perfected, as it advances in age: for the sensories of the body are opened, into which the visible world, with its modes and images, generally, indistinctly and obscurely, at first flows-in. These modes steal by degrees into the sensories of the brain, to which a path is smoothed by the leading fibres, and in those sensories they induce changes of state, by which changes they teach them to receive, to retain, and, finally, to perceive, that which enters secretly and penetrates through the external organical doors: hence, in process of time, the sensual images, inwardly adopted in the sensory of the brain, become ideas; at first, such as bear are semblance to the things of sense; but which afterwards, when arranged into forms and series, become ideas proximately of a higher order, or imaginative, which finally put on rational forms, and become intellectual. Thus we gain instruction from the world by means of the senses, the ministers of the life of the body, and from the shade of ignorance we are introduced into a kind of light of science. There is in the brain an eminent sensorium, and in it are the inmost recesses, to which, and no further, the sensual rays of the body ascend: in those recesses the soul resides, ornamented with the most distinguished organical clothing, and in this abode, as it were, meets the ideas which emerge so far, and receives them as her guests. This ample station is called the inmost sensorium, and is the boundary of the life of the body, to which that life tends, and the boundary of the soul, from which as a spiritual essence, it operates. In this station, the soul principally infuses her power, or impresses the faculty that the images, which have been made ideas, may be folded together into rational forms or analyses, and may thus be arranged, and acquire a kind of spiritual habit, to the intent that we may be enabled to think beneath and above ourselves by virtue of what we understand, form conclusions from what we think, determine our judgments from those conclusions, make our election of things in agreement with our judgments, and thuз will and determine. In addition to the above power and faculty, the soul gives us to distinguish, and, as it were, intimately and |