[NCBSP editor's notes: When Swedenborg was in the process of finishing "Verbum Explicatum", he began keeping a record of some of the spiritual experiences that he was having. This record was a sort of diary, and it was only discovered and published posthumously, using the title "Experientiae Spiritualis".
The first portion of this diary was missing altogether, from the beginning to section 148:3. It's been somewhat reconstructed from an extensive index to the diary that Swedenborg made, as he prepared to write later theological works.]
[This is the first section of threshold materials clearly belonging to Spiritual Experiences, extracted from The Word of the Old Testament Explained]*
* See also the Preface to Experientiae Spirituales under the heading "Additional 'Diary' Materials," as well as the Preface to VOLUME I of the same under the heading "The indented paragraphs in Codices 59-52."
