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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 179
thereof, that they became astonished, imagining justly
that, by such a way of proceeding, Christianity in this
country would totally vanish. I am informed that the
bishops and many of the clerical order of the states at the
Diet expressed themselves with great propriety concerning
those doctrinal principles which were then discussed.
"What has been presented to the Consistories against
my writings, not having been communicated to me, I am
totally ignorant of what passed in the senate on that
subject.
I go next June to Amsterdam, where I intend to
publish the Universal Theology of the New Church ;
the worship of the Lord is the foundation therein, and if
upon that foundation the true house, or temple, shall not
be built, others will erect upon it lupanaria, or brothels. *
"As to what regards the draconical spirits, they are all
removed far towards the south, where the learned obtain
a certain place, and every one there his cellulam, or little
chamber, wherein he confirms himself in justification by
faith alone; and they who have confirmed this from the
Word of God, depart thence into a desert, and so on
further. The rest, when they come out, obtain no dwel
lings. To what place they afterwards go, I do not yet
know : in heaven there is no place for them. It befals
them according to the description in the Apocalypse
Revealed, 421. But that abyss which is there described
is now removed farther in the south, as observed before.—
I remain, with all friendship and confidence, &c. ,
"EMANUEL SWEDENBORG .
" Stockholm, April 30, 1770."
LETTER X.
To Dr. Beyer.
" As I am going, in a few days, to Amsterdam, I shall
take my leave of you in this letter, hoping that our
Saviour will support you in good health, preserve you
* Which spiritually mean perversions and falsifications of all
the truths of the Word. (See Rev. xvii.)
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