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paw ^ iPMpaMVM To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sin , Feb . 7 , 1809 . During the last autumn I was passing a few days with a friend in the country , when we visited one of his neighbours , a lady of great musical accomplishments , which she very agreeably devotes
to the entertainment of her guests . Looking over her music-books I found one entitled " the Bardic Museum , '* which , besides a number of admired Welsh airs , contained a variety of curious information respecting bards ,- and the if Bardic Triads . " I soon fixed
my eye on a morceau , which , having rather a virtuoso ' s taste for such raritieSy I secured in my pocket-book , not without a hope that you would favour me by preserving it in the Repository . — Here it is verbatim et literatim ^ as any one may be satisfied , by referring to p . 32 of the Bardie Museum , fol . 18 O 2 .
fTalieshSs Creed ^ ( a literal Translation , ) " Christ Jesus of Heaven , in thee I believe , that thou art three in one ; and am certainly in the right . "Worthily art thou called a most gracious and bountiful Father : —Truly art thou called a son , the chief bishop of Adam's posterity " : —Really art thou called a spirit , and my righteous Lord : —Justly art thou denominated a creator , and highest
emperor : —Deservedly art theu called a ^ ud ge , and a most liberal benefactor : — . And verily a true man and true God sa ~ prt » me . " Of Taliesin 1 had before known
nothing , except as the Bard of Gray thus suMSmely invokes him to listen to the ports who ! with " Tiuth severe in fairy fiction drest " have adorned the age of Elizabeth . * ' Hear from the grave great Taliesin , hear ; *< They breatke a soul to animate thy clay . "
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I now began to consider thiV prince of the bards as also one of the deepest divines of the 6 th century in which he flourished and worthy to be named with doctors seraphic , angelic , or irrefragable , though he is not mentioned in any ecclesiastical history which I hstve
seen . I dare say , Mr , Editor , that you have gone before me in observing how Taliesin bears away the palm
of originality from a celebrated modern theologian as to one important branch of his system . I refer to Emanuel Swedenborg , who appears to have been as respecU able for scientific attainments as
for a blameless life ; but of whom perhaps that may not be unjustly said which was so ialselv affirmed respecting the great Apostle of the Gentiles , ' that much learning had made him road . '
Swedenborg , among other marvellous freaks of fancyy imagined-that he had been taught by immediate revelation the astonishing doctrine that u the man Christ Jesus" was
God the Father , Son , and Holy Spirit . Thus , in defiance of St . Athanasius , " confounding the persons , " though not Ct dividing the substance . " But it will be
most satisfactory to quote from the Cyeed oftC The New Jerusalem Church / ' the following article :- — c « J [ believe that J ehovah God , the Creator of heaven and earth , is one in essence and rn person , in whom is a Divine Trinity , consisting o £ Father , Son , and Holy Spirit ; and that the Lord and Saviour Jews Christ is that God . "
You perceive how Swedcnborg . the apostle of this Church , Ivm fixed himself , no doubt unwittingly , on the ground prc-occup icJ
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S ^^¦^ 1 : AUESlN CREED ADOPTED BY SWEDENB 0 R& . > . t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/18/
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