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230 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
the fruit, or the good works, which are said to accompany
the present faith, of which we have been speaking, have
no other sap or juices than those contained in the confir
mations of what is false, and these falsities are contained
in the supposed good works which are said to accompany
that faith ; of this, however, man is ignorant, but the
angels perceive and know it very well.-I have the
honour to be, &c.,
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG ."
SWEDENBORG’S LETTERS
ΤΟ
THE SWEDISH AMBASSADOR,
AND TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
To his Excellency the [ Swedish] Ambassador.
" I passed the winter at Amsterdam, and during
that period published an explication of St. John’s
Revelation, entitled Apocalypsis Revelata, containing
secrets hitherto unrevealed. I have sent your Excellency
twenty copies of the same. Messrs. Howen and Zoon
are acquainted with the captain who has the care of them.
Of this work I have sent two copies to the Cardinal de
Rohan, two to the Royal Society of Sciences, two to our
Secretary of State, and one for the Royal Library. In
the same work are inserted various memorable relations
of my intercourse with the spiritual world : they are
separated from the text of the work by asterisks, and are
to be found at the end of the explication of each chapter.
As they contain several remarkable particulars, they may
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