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112 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
sequently he has to write eight sheets every week ; and
what appears to me utterly inconceivable, he has not a
single line beforehand in store. * His work is to consist,
as he himself states, of about eighty sheets in print ; and
he has calculated that it will not be finished before
Michaelmas. The title of this work is the following :
True Christian Religion, containing the Universal
Theology of the New Church, predicted by the Lord in
Daniel chap. viii. 1, 3, 14, and in the Apocalypse chap.
xxii. 1, 2, by Emanuel Swedenborg, servant of the Lord
Jesus Christ.’ I could not, in my open manner, conceal
my astonishment, that he should put himself upon the
title-page as a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. But
he replied, I have asked, and have not only received
permission, but have been ordered to do so.’ It is
astonishing with what confidence the old gentleman
speaks of the spiritual world, of the angels, and of
GOD himself. If I were only to give you the substance
of our last conversation, I should fill many pages. He
spoke of naturalists, (those who ascribe all things to
nature,) whom he had seen shortly after their death,
and amongst whom were even many theologians, or such,
at least, as had made theology their profession in this
life. He told me things which made me shudder, but
which, however, I pass by, in order not to be over hasty
in my judgment respecting him. I will willingly admit,
that I know not what to make of him ; he is a problem
that I cannot solve. I sincerely wish, that upright men,
whom God has placed as watchmen upon the walls of
Zion, had some time since occupied themselves with this
man.
"3
* This is a mistake ; for Swedenborg had contemplated his last
work several years before he printed it. He first published, in
1769, the Summaria Expositio Doctrine Novæ Ecclesiæ, &c., as a
forerunner to the work in question. He had written it at home,
and brought it to Amsterdam to be published, after having been
at Paris for that purpose. (See below p. 115.) He, no doubt, re
vised the MS. as he sent it, sheet by sheet, to the press, and
probably made additions and alterations, and this might lead Ab
Indagine to suppose that he composed it immediately before it
was sent to press.
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