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226 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
denborgian doctrines to the king, our affair is consequently
before the council of state, where it is to be further inves
tigated and judged. The illustrious author, Swedenborg,
wrote to me from Stockholm as follows :-
’I know that
the Lord Himself, our Saviour, will protect His church,
especially against those who are not willing to enter by
the true door into the fold, that is into heaven, who are
called thieves and murderers, so says the Lord Himself,
He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but
climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber. Iamthe door : by Me ifany man enter in, he
shall be saved. (John x. 1 , 9. ) I have been told from
the Lord, through an angel from heaven, that I may
securely sleep upon my pillow during the nights, which
are to be understood to mean the darkness in which the
world at present lies with respect to the church.’
"But this may be enough for the present ; farewell,
my dear Sir : as a man that loves the truth above all
things, continue your affection towards me, who am like
wise a worshiper of truth.-I am, your humble servant,
66’ GABRIEL ANDREW BEYER.
"Gottenburg, June 15, 1771."
SWEDENBORG’S LETTER
TO
DR. MENANDER, ARCHBISHOP OF SWEDEN.*
"MOST REVEREND DR., &c.,
"I have the pleasure of sending you a small work
which I published in my youth, on a new method of
* This letter was first published in 1785, in the French Trans
lation of Swedenborg’s work, entitled, Intercourse between the
Soul and the Body. (See Dr. Tafel’s Documents concerning the
Life of Swedenborg, p. 331.) The date is not given; but as it
was evidently written immediately after the publication of The
Apocalypse Revealed, which appeared at Amsterdam in 1766,
the letter was most probably written in that year.
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