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82 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
missary of war at Elsineur,* and a friend at Stockholm ,
who lent them to me for a day ; and I found therein two
letters of Bishop Filenius, wherein it is said, that he
should meddle no more in it. I am desirous to convince
the world, that all these proceedings, from their beginning
to their end, have been carried on without my having ever
been heard. A rumour has, nevertheless, spread through
out Stockholm, that the chancellor of justice has declared
in writing to the consistory at Gottenburg, that my
works are prohibited from being brought into that
place, under the penalty of fifty dollars ; and that my
writings have been declared false, and not true. I
have already informed your majesty, and beseech you to
recall it to mind, that the Lord our Saviour manifested
himselfto me in a sensible personal appearance ; that he
has commanded me to write what has been already done,
and what I have still to do : that he was afterwards
graciously pleased to endow me with the privilege of
conversing with angels and spirits, and to be in fellow
ship with them. I have already declared this more than
once to your majesty, in the presence of all the royal
family, when they were graciously pleased to invite me
to their table with five senators, and several other persons;
this was the only subject discoursed of during the repast.
Of this I also spoke afterwards to several other senators ;
and more openly to their excellencies Count de Tessin,
Count Bonde, and Count Hôpken, who are still alive,
and were satisfied with the truth of it. I have declared
the same in England, Holland, Germany, Denmark,
and at Paris, to kings, princes, and other particular
persons, as well as to those in this kingdom.
the common report is believed, the chancellor has de
clared, that what I have been reciting are untruths,
although the very truth. To say that they cannot believe
and give credit to such things, therein will I excuse them,
for it is not in my power to place others in the same state
in which GOD has placed me, so as to be able to convince
If
* General Tuxen, mentioned above.
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