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60 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
" Some time afterwards I was informed that he had returned by way of Got-
tenburg to Stockholm, and as I had accidentally heard that the consistory had
begun to examine into a letter written by him to a doctor of divinity at the
College (Dr. Beyer), which was declared by the dean (Dr. Ekebom) to be hereti-
cal, I endeavored to obtain the extracts of the minutes that were printed, and
which were to prove the doctrine of Swedenborg to be erroneous ; but these
extracts aimed chiefly at blackening the character of Dr. Beyer and a learned
Dr. Rosen. I therefore wrote to Swedenborg, and requested him to inform me
concerning these transactions, and received a letter from him in answer, an at-
tested coppy of which is annexed to these anecdotes of my personal interviews
with Swedenborg.
" As I had been so happy for several years as to enjoy the familiar acquaint-
ance of the younger brother of Count Hopken, Baron Charles Frederic Hopken,
who was Ambassador at our court from Sweden, and who had been in the like
capacity at Constantinople, and who was, moreover, a very courteous and
agreeable nobleman, I embraced an opportunity, after the death of Swedenborg,
of writing to this eminent man, and of putting several questions to him, which
he did not directly answer, yet very politely sent me the letters which I have
much pleasure in sending you ; all which are attested copies. They give a
faithful account of our late benefactor, and indeed not only of ours, but that of
all mankind, if they are seriously solicitous about their future state after death.
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For my part, I thank our Lord the God of Heaven, that I have been acquainted
with this great man and his writings. I esteem this as the greatest blessing I
ever experienced in my life, and I hope T shall profit by them in working out
my salvation.
" My valuable guest took his leave of me, for the last time, in a very affection-
ate manner, and I hope that I shall, in the other life, testify to him my grateful
heart. —I am, with all respect, yours, &c..
Christian Tuxen.
" Elsineur, May 4, 1790."
Letter from Emanuel Sivedenborg to General Tuxen
" Sir,
" I received your letter of March 4th, by Lieut. Tuxen your son, who did me
the pleasure of paying me a visit. My duty demanded a speedier answer; but
as I waited for the conclusion of the affair at Gottenburg, in order to communi-
cate something of it to you, I have from time to time postponed it. I have suf-
fered this matter, and all the invectives used against me at Gottenburg, to come
to an end : and I have since sent the chancellor of justice, and the senator Eke-
blad, a copy of the annexed, by means of which I effected a change in the
business, of which I shall inform you some other time. The affair took its rise,
at Gottenburg, from the dean ; the deputies of that city having been instructed to
complain of me and Dr. Beyer to the diet, they pushed matters as far as they
could, but would never have effected anything, unless the bishop, Filenius, who
was then president qf the clerical order, had taken upon himself the management
of it, and in a crafty manner gained over some members of the order, which the
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