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HIS LETTER TO DR. MENANDER. 227
finding the longitude both by sea and by land, by lunar
observations, * a work which has just been re-published at
Amsterdam, and which has been submitted to the ex
amination of the learned societies and academies. You
will greatly oblige by forwarding a copy of it to the
professor of astronomy at Abo, in order, that if he find
this method suited to his genius, and worthy of his appli
cation, he may put it in practice. In foreign countries
several persons at present employ this method of calcu
lating the ephemerides by pairs of stars, and a great
advantage has already been experienced from those which
have been made for some years past.
"The Apocalypse is now explained, or rather revealed,
but I have not yet had an opportunity of sending to your
Reverence any copies of it, and also to the library. Please
to inform me, to whom I shall entrust it here, in order to
send it to you at Stockholm.
"Several persons are now occupied in examining
whether this is actually the Consummation of the Age,
and at the same time the Coming of the Lord, and the
Commencement of the New Church, which the Lord will
establish. There are those who believe that the present
faith, which is a faith in God the Father for the sake of
the Son, is the very faith which saves man ; but it is
demonstrated in The Apocalypse Revealed, that this
faith has destroyed the church, and that it has abolished
religion, and that consequently it has so entirely laid
waste and consumed every thing that constitutes divine
worship, that there is no longer any genuine goodness
and truth in the church, and that the works which are
called the fruits of this faith are nothing else but the
’eggs ofthe cockatrice,’ mentioned in Isa. lix. 5. They,
therefore, who have confirmed in themselves this faith
with its spider’s web,’ and who believe that the good
works which they do, are the fruits of this faith, are
grossly deceived, and are in a kind of delirium from
The title of this work is, Methodus nova inveniendi Lon
gitudinis Locorum Terra marique, ope Lunæ, which during the
author’s lifetime passed through three editions. (See above p. 9.)
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