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SWEDENBORG’S LETTERS
TO THE
LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-DARMSTADT,
AND TO
HIS MINISTER, M. VENATOR.*
LETTER I.
To the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
"On the reception of your obliging letter, I was
uncertain whether it was signed by you, most Serene
Duke, or by some other person. I communicated the
subject of my uncertainty to M. Venator, your minister,
on his calling on me, who removed my doubt. I have
deferred replying to your letter till I had received from
the press the work entitled True Christian Religion, &c.,
of which I send your most Serene Highness two copies,
bythe stage which leaves this city every day for Germany.
As to the work called Arcana Calestia, it is not to be
obtained any longer either in Holland or England, all the
copies of it having been sold : but as I know that there
are some in Sweden, I will write to the persons who have
them, to know whether they will sell them at any price.
I shall communicate their anwer to your Highness as
soon as I receive it.
"In your gracious letter, you ask, how I attained to
be in Society with angels and spirits, and whether that
privilege can be communicated from one person to
another. Deign, then, to receive favourably this answer.
See Dr. Tafel’s " Samlung von Urkunden, &c.," or, Collection
of Documents concerning the Life of Swedenborg, p. 339, and
following.
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