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234 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
LETTER II.
Tothe Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
66
I have received and read with pleasure the letter with
which your Highness has honoured me. I hope that the
work just printed, under the title of The True Christian
Religion, has now reached you. You may write, if you
please, to the learned ecclesiastics in your duchy, to give
their judgment concerning it ; but I pray you to choose
among them those who love the truth, and who love it
only because it is the truth. If you take others, they
will see in this work no light, but only darkness. That
which is reported of the daughter of the Prince Margrave
in Sweden, is a fiction invented by some foolish novelist,
and I never even heard of it before. As to that which is
related of the brother of the queen of Sweden, it is
entirely true ; but it should not be regarded as a miracle ;
it is but one of those memorabilia, of the same kind as
those inserted in the book just mentioned, concerning
Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, and others. All these memo
rabilia are but testimonies that I have been introduced
by the Lord into the spiritual world, as to my spirit,
and that I converse with spirits and angels. It is true
also that I have conversed with a person mentioned in the
journal you cite, and, six months ago, with the deceased
Stanislaus, king of Poland, in a certain society where he
was, and where it was not known who he was. He made
all the happiness of his life consist in remaining thus
unknown in these assemblies, and in conversing there
familiarly with the spirits and angels as one of them. I
afterwards saw him transferred to a northern region, where
I learnt that he had been called by a society of Roman
Catholics, over whom he presided. In the same way, I
have often conversed with the Roman Pontiff, who has
lately died. After his decease he remained with me a
whole day; but it is not permitted me to publish any
thing respecting his manner of living, or his state. You
may see, ifyou will, what I have written in my last work,
concerning the Pontiff who reigned some thirty or forty
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