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180 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
from farther violence, and bless your thoughts. I convey
you herewith the copy of a letter, which I am about to
send to the universities, as well as to the great chancellor
of justice. Please to salute kindly Dr. Rosen, and I am,
&c., " EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
"Stockholm, July 23, 1770."
Copyofa Letter addressed to the Universities of Upsal,
Lund, and Abo.
" In a few days I am going to Amsterdam, and intend
to publish the whole Theology of the New Church, the
foundation whereof will be the worship of the Lord our
Saviour, on which foundation, if no temple should now
be built, lupanaria (brothels) would be erected.
"Now having been informed, that the religious trial,
relative to Dr. Beyer and Dr. Rosen, in Gottenburg, was
immediately taken up and surprisingly terminated by the
senate, and as this may become a subject of conversation
in many places during my absence, therefore, to prevent
any malicious judgment, which may probably proceed
from the mouths of certain persons, arising from their
ignorance or interior malice, it is my duty, from the im
portance and necessity of the subject, to communicate
what I have delivered to his Majesty thereon, which is as
follows:
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" I have been informed by two gentlemen in the
senatorial department ofjustice, that the senators are
pontifex maximus, to which I then gave no answer ; but
in case I should still hear such assertions from them, I
shall answer, that they are not at all pontifex maximus,
but vicarius vicarii pontificis maximi ; because Jesus
Christ our Saviour is the only Pontifex Maximus ; the
states ofthe kingdom are His vicarius, wherefore they are
answerable to Him, and the senators are the vicarii for
the states ; because they are appointed, and that hence they
are vicarius vicarii pontificis maximi. That the Pope
of Rome called himself pontificem maximum, is of
pride, because he has taken and assumed to himself all
* See above p. 179, note.
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