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160 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
sense of the Word. But in this matter I was disap
pointed he acknowledged that the Word has a spiritual
sense ; but his knowledge of it seemed scanty and obscure.
He told me, he regretted that he had never been able to
procure Swedenborg’s works, in which the Word is ex
plained as to its spiritual sense, these works not having
been translated either into French or German, and the
Latin copies being so scarce, that he could never procure
them. The works of Swedenborg which he possessed,
were the Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom,
Divine Providence, and, if I mistake not, a German
translation of the Earths in the Universe.
"The different biographers of Oberlin have carefully
concealed his predeliction for the writings of Swedenborg;
they all agree, however, that he had peculiar views con
cerning heaven and hell and the human soul. And M.
Morel, who has recently written memoirs ofOberlin, says,
Oberlin had much originality in his conceptions, and
his most singular ideas bore the impress of a great soul :
he attached an emblematical sense to colours. His ardent
imagination, nourished by the mystical works of Sweden
borg, delighted to bound over the threshold of the tomb,
and to expatiate in the mysterious world which awaits the
soul, when separated from its earthly bonds.’"*
"
LETTERS
FROM
THE CELEBRATED J. C. LAVATER, †
OF ZURICH,
TESTIFYING HIS ADMIRATION OF SWEDENBORG’S
WRITINGS.
"It is not known (says Dr. Tafel, ) whether Sweden
borg wrote in reply to Lavater, or not ; it is very probable
* See La Nouvelle Jerusalem, Deux. Année, p. 233.
+ See New Jerusalem Magazine for 1790, pp. 179 and 245,
where two letters from Lavater the celebrated author of the
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