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HIS LETTER TO M. VENATOR. 235
&c.,
years ago. Treat favourably, I pray you, whatever has
relation to the honour of God.-I am, with respect,
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
"Amsterdam, July 15, 1771."
LETTER III.
To M. Venator.
" I hope that my new work, entitled True Christian
Religion, is now in your hands, and that the two copies,
which I sent at the same time to the Landgrave, have
reached him. I desire to have your judgment upon the
subject there treated of, because I know, that, being
enlightened by the Lord, you will there see in light, more
than others, the truths which are there manifested in
accordance with the Word. I send to day my reply to
the letter which his Highness, your Prince, has recently
sent to me ; and by his orders, I speak to him of the
conversations which I have had with two personages in
the spiritual world. But these conversations, as well as
that between the queen of Sweden and her brother when
he was living, which was made known to me by him in
the spiritual world, ought by no means to be regarded as
miracles; they are only testimonies that I have been
introduced by the Lord into the spiritual world, and that
I have been in association with angels and spirits, in
order that the church, which until now had remained in
ignorance concerning that world, may know that heaven
and hell exist in reality, and that man lives after death,
a man, as before ; and that thus there might be no more
doubt as to his immortality. Deign, I pray you, to
satisfy his Highness, that these are not miracles, but only
testimonies that I converse with angels and spirits.
" You may see in the work above mentioned, that there
are no more miracles, at this time; and the reason why.
It is, that they who do not believe because they see no
miracles, might easily, by them, be led into fanaticism.
I have seen two volumes, in quarto, of miracles wrought
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