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124 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
citizen, and as a friend, he was a man of the greatest
integrity, abhorring imposture, and leading an exemplary
life.
"The explication, therefore, which Chevalier Baylon
gives of this circumstance, is void of foundation ; and the
visit said to have been made in the night to Swedenborg,
by Counts Hopken and T , is purely invention.
"As to the rest, the author of the letter may be
assured that I am no follower of Swedenborg ; the love
of truth alone has induced me to relate, faithfully, a fact,
which has been so often stated with details entirely false ;
and I verify what I have just written with the signature
of my name :
" CHARLES LEONARD DE STAHLHAMMER.’
This letter bears a double testimony in Swedenborg’s
favour it establishes the reality of his intercourse with
the spiritual world, and it corroborates the truth of his
assertions respecting the inability of miraculous evidence
to communicate faith for here is a writer decidedly
affirming the certainty of a supernatural fact, and yet
calling it a weakness in Swedenborg to believe in the
apparition of spirits.
TESTIMONY
OF THE CELEBRATED GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
EMANUEL KANT,
RESPECTING SWEDENBORG’S INTERCOURSE WITH
THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
The opinion ofthis celebrated man respecting Sweden
borg and his extraordinary case, as having communication
with the world of spirits, having been asked by a literary )
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