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TESTIMONY OF EMANUEL KANT. 127
world. But his succeeding letters were quite of a dif
ferent purport. He had not only spoken with Sweden
borg himself, but had also visited him at his house ; and
he is now in the greatest astonishment respecting such a
remarkable case. Swedenborg is a reasonable, polite,
and open-hearted man : he also is a man of learning ;
and my friend has promised to send me some of his
writings in a short time. He told this gentleman, without
reserve, that GOD had accorded to him the remarkable
gift of communicating with departed souls at his pleasure.
In proof of this, he appealed to certain known facts. As
he was reminded of my letter, he said that he was aware
he had received it, and that he would already have
answered it, had he not intended to make the whole of
this singular affair public to the eyes of the world. He
should proceed to London in the month of May this
year, where he would publish a book, in which the
answer to my letter, as to every point, might be met
with.
" In order, gracious lady, to give you two proofs, of
which the present existing public is a witness, and the
person who related them to me had the opportunity of
investigating them at the very place where they occurred,
I will narrate to you the two following occurrences.
[The first of these occurrences is that respecting
Madame de Marteville, only differing from the relation
of it given from Thiebault, by representing the receipt
to have been found, by direction from the deceased M.
de Marteville, in a secret drawer of a bureau, which
bureau, ignorant of the secret drawer, Mad. de M. had
previously searched in vain. The other affair is the fire at
Stockholm ; and the particulars are given more minutely
by Kant than in any account before known in England.
He proceeds thus :-]
"But the following occurrence appears to me to have
the greatest weight of proof, and to set the assertion
respecting Swedenborg’s extraordinary gift out of all
possibility of doubt. In the year 1756, when Sweden
* See above p. 119.
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