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172 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
LETTER VI.
To Dr. Beyer.
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I arrived at Stockholm the beginning of this month,
and was kindly received by all classes of people, and
instantly invited by their Royal Highnesses the hereditary
prince and his sister, with both of whom I had a long con
versation. I also dined with several of the senators, and
conversed with the first members of the Diet, and with
the bishops here present, who all behaved very kindly and
affably to me, except bishop Filenius. On being informed
that my copies of the work, De Amore Conjugiali,
were stopped at Norkjoping, I inquired of the bishops,
Enander from Abo, of Benzelstierna from Westeras, of
bishop Lutkeman, and of Bishop Lamberg, how matters
stood respecting my writings, who all assured me, that they
knew no other but that the books were taken care of, lest
any part of them should be lost before my return home ;
but that bishop Filenius had made a representation of the
matter to the clergy in the Diet, who had given him no
answer, and much less consented to any confiscation ;
and that his motion was not accepted, or minuted down
in the proceedings of the Diet ; and consequently that
none of the clerical order in the Diet bore any part in it,
except bishop Filenius, with whom I had some dispute,
as he insisted on their being revised, before they were
delivered ; and he will not hear mentioned, that the
revisal of this book, which is not theological, but chiefly
moral, is unnecessary, and consequently absurd. Such
a mode of proceeding would prepare the way for a
dark age’ in Sweden. Nevertheless, this behaviour of
the bishop cannot affect me in the least, as I have
brought over thirty-eight copies of this work with me,
and had sent over five of them before ; the half of which
number I have delivered and sent to the bishops, to the
different orders of the Diet, to the senators, and to the
Royal Family, and when the rest in like manner are dis
tributed, there will be more than sufficient for Stockholm.
I think of sending those that are stopped at Norkjoping,
abroad, where they are much desired.
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