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LETTER TO THE REV. T. HARTLEY. 27
ment. But all these are dead : however, two bishops who
are related to me are still living : one of them, named
Filenius, is Bishop of East-Gothland, and now officiates
as President of the Ecclesiastical Order in the Diet at
Stockholm, in the room of the Archbishop, who is infirm ;
he married my sister’s daughter : the other, named
Benzelstierna, is Bishop of Westermania and Dalecarlia ;
he is the son of my second sister. Not to mention others
of my relations who enjoy stations of dignity. I live,
besides, on terms of familiarity and friendship with all the
bishops of my country, who are ten in number ; as also
with the sixteen senators, and the rest ofthe nobility ; for
they know that I am in fellowship with angels. The
king and queen also, and the three princes their sons,
shew me much favour : I was once invited by the king
and queen to dine at their table,-an honour which is
in general granted only to the nobility of the highest
rank ; and likewise, since, with the hereditary prince.
They all wished for my return home : so far am I from
being in any danger of persecution in my own country,
as you seem to apprehend, and so kindly wish to provide
against ; and should any thing of the kind befal me else
where, it cannot hurt me.
" But I regard all that I have mentioned as matters of
respectively little moment ; for, what far exceeds them, I
have been called to a holy office by the Lord himself, who
most graciously manifested himself in person to me, his
servant, in the year 1743 ; when he opened my sight to
the view of the spiritual world, and granted me the
privilege of conversing with spirits and angels, which I
enjoy to this day. From that time I began to print and
publish various arcana that have been seen by me, or re
vealed to me ; as respecting heaven and hell, the state of
man after death, the true worship of God, the spiritual
sense of the Word ; with many other most important
matters conducive to salvation and true wisdom. The
only reason of my latter journeys to foreign countries,
has been the desire of being useful, by making known
the arcana entrusted to me.
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