202# 我曾受教得知：太古教会，即洪水以前的教会，其人具有如此属天的秉性，以致能与天上的天使交谈；而他们之所以能与天使交谈，乃是藉着对应。由此，他们的智慧状态遂至于：凡在地上所见之物，他们不但以属世方式思想，同时也以属灵方式思想；如此，他们便也与天上的天使一同思想。
此外，我又受教得知：以诺——创世记五章21—24节曾提及他——及其同伴，从他们口中收集对应，并将对应之学传于后世。由此遂成：对应之学在亚洲许多王国不仅为人所知，且被加以培育；尤在迦南地、埃及、亚述、迦勒底、叙利亚、阿拉伯，以及推罗、西顿、尼尼微为然。后来，此学由那里传入希腊；但在希腊却转变为神话，这从那里上古作者的著作中可以看出。
202# 我被教导，存在于大洪水之前的上古教会之人具有如此属天的性质，以至于他们与天堂天使交谈，并能通过对应与他们交谈。因此，他们的智慧状态是这样：凡他们在地上所看到的东西，他们不仅属世地思想它，同时还属灵地思想，从而与天堂天使联合思想它。我进一步被教导，创世记（5:21-24）提到的以诺和他的伙伴从这些人的口中收集对应，并把这种知识传给后代。因此，在亚洲或中东的许多国家，尤其在迦南地、埃及、亚述、迦勒底、亚兰或叙利亚、阿拉伯、推罗、西顿、尼尼微，对应的知识不仅存在，为人所知，还得到了发展；它从那里传到希腊，但在希腊却变成了神话故事，这一点可从古希腊著作看出来。
202. I have been taught that the people in the earliest church, which existed before the flood, had a nature so heavenly that they spoke with angels of heaven. The use of correspondences by these people enabled them to communicate with angels. As a result, the quality of their wisdom grew to the point where anything they saw on earth they thought about not only in an earthly way but also in a spiritual way; they and angels in heaven thought about it together.
I have also been taught that Enoch (who is mentioned in Genesis 5:21-24), along with friends of his, collected correspondences from the oral tradition of the earliest people and spread the study of correspondences to his descendants. As a result, the study of correspondences was not only known in many countries in the Middle East but was also further developed, especially in the land of Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, and Arabia; and in Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh. From there it crossed into Greece, but turned into myths there, as you can see from the earliest Greek writings.
202. I have been taught that the people of the Most Ancient church, which existed before the flood, had such heavenly characters that they conversed with angels in heaven. They were able to do this by correspondences. So they reached such a pitch of wisdom that they not only thought naturally about anything they saw on earth, but at the same time also thought spiritually about it, and this established their link with angels in heaven. I was also taught that Enoch, who is mentioned in Genesis 5:21-24, together with his colleagues collected these correspondences by listening to their talk, and transmitted this science to posterity. As a result the science of correspondences was not merely known but held in high esteem in many Asiatic kingdoms, especially in the land of Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldaea, Syria, Arabia, Tyre, Sidon and Nineveh. From there it was transmitted to Greece, but was there transformed into myths, as is evident in the earliest Greek authors.
202. I have been informed that the men of the Most Ancient Church which existed before the flood, were of a genius so celestial that they talked with the angels of heaven, and were able to talk with them by means of correspondences, and in consequence the state of their wisdom was such that whatever they saw on earth, they thought of not only naturally, but at the same time spiritually, thus conjointly with the angels of heaven. Furthermore, I have been informed that Enoch (who is mentioned in Genesis 5:21-24) and those associated with him collected correspondences from the lips of these men, and transmitted this knowledge to their posterity; and that from this it came to pass that in many of the kingdoms of Asia the knowledge of correspondences both existed and was cultivated, especially in the land of Canaan, in Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, Arabia, Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh, and that it was thence carried into Greece; but was there turned into myths, as can be seen from the writings of the ancient Greeks.
202. I have been informed that the men of the Most Ancient Church, which existed before the Flood, were of so heavenly a genius that they conversed with the angels of heaven; and that they had the power to do so by correspondences. Consequently their wisdom became such that, whatever they saw on earth, they thought of not only naturally, but also spiritually, thus also in conjunction with the angels of heaven. I was further informed that Enoch, who is mentioned in Genesis 5:21-24, and his associates, collected correspondences from their speech, and transmitted this knowledge to posterity. As a result of this the science of correspondences was not only known but was also cultivated in many kingdoms of Asia, particularly in the Land of Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldaea, Syria, Arabia, and in Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh. It was thence communicated to Greece; but it was there changed into fable, as may be seen from the literature of the oldest Greek writers.
202. Instructus sum, quod homines Antiquissimae Ecclesiae, quae fuit ante Diluvium, tam coelesti genio fuerint, ut loquuti sint cum Angelis Coeli, et quod loqui potuerint cum illis per Correspondentias; inde status sapientiae illorum factus est talis, ut quicquid viderent in Tellure, non modo cogitarent de illo naturaliter, sed etiam simul spiritualiter, ita quoque conjunctim cum Angelis Coeli. Insuper instructus sum, quod CHANOCH, 1 de quo memoratur in Genesi 5:21-24, cum consociis ejus, ex ore illorum collegerit Correspondentias, ac Scientiam illarum propagaverit ad posteros; ex quo factum est, quod Scientia Correspondentiarum in multis Regnis Asiae non modo nota fuerit, sed etiam exculta, imprimis in Terra Canaane, Aegypto, Assyria, Chaldaea, Syria, Arabia, in Tyro, Zidone, Ninive, et quod inde translata sit in Graeciam, sed ibi versa in Fabulosa, ut constare potest a Vetustissimorum scriptis ibi.
Footnotes:
1. Prima editio: CANOCH.