The Spiritual Diary 2003: 3: Records and Notes made by Emanuel Swedenborg between 1746 and 1765 from his Experiences in the Spiritual World: Volume . sections 3241-4544. Published Posthumously

Excerpt from The Spiritual Diary, Vol. 1 of 5: Numbers 1 to 1538
IN the following translation the great object has been to render everything as correctly and perspicuously as possible, and to note every particular found in the original. Thus the reader will find, as nearly as can be given in a translation, a facsimile of the original. In order, however, to make the sense sufficiently clear, it was found necessary, on account of the elliptical style of the original, to insert phrases and expletives within brackets, thus in most cases, however, the sense of the phrase is involved in the original; but the translators, fearing lest they should be considered as adding something of their own, have carefully inserted every word and phrase necessary to elucidate and express the sense within brackets. The parentheses, thus 0, at the beginning and conclusion of many of the numbers, and also in many parts of the text, were introduced by the Latin Editor, Dr. Immanuel Tafel, to denote that the author had so many times crossed his pen over the parts thus included. The ideas contained within these parentheses are to a certain extent introduced into his writings, and it is probable that he marked them each time he had occasion to refer to them, not with a view to cancel them, but to indicate to himself that they had so many times, especially when preparing the Index, come under his notice. The reader will not find these parentheses interfere with the sense. There are, however, a few cases in which the translators have enclosed the text within parentheses (although not so marked in the original), for the purpose of rendering long and complicated sentences more perspicuous; but these paren th etical parts are easily distinguished from the former.
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