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120 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
I was disappointed : he acknowledged that the Word has a spiritual sense
;
but his knowledge of it seemed scanty and obscure. He told rne, he regretted
that he had never been able to procure Swedenborg’s works, in which the
Word is explained as to its spiritual sense, these works not having been trans-
lated either into French or German, and the Latin copies being so scarce, that
he could never procure them. The works of Swedenborg which he possess-
ed, were the Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence, and, if I
mistake not, a German translation of the Earths in the Universe.
" The different biographers of Oberlin have carefully concealed his predilection
for the writings of Swedenborg ; they all agree, however, that he had peculiar
views concerning heaven and hell and the human soul. And M. Morel, who
has recently written memoirs of Oberlin, says, ’ Oberlin had much originality in
his conceptions, and his most singular ideas bore the impress of a great soul:
he attached an emblematical sense to colors. His ardent imagination, nourished
by the mystical works of Swedenborg, delighted to bound over the threshold of
the tomb, and to expatiate in the mysterious world which awaits the soul, when
separated from its earthly bonds."*
PART III.
lEnEES AND DOCUMENTS EELATIVE TO SWEDENBORG’
GENERAL CLAIMS.
XXI.
LETTERS
TROM
THE CELEBRATED J. C. LAVATER,t
OF ZURICH,
TESTIFYING HIS ADMIRATION OF SWEDENBORG^S WRITINGS.
It is not known (says Dr. Tafel), whether Swedenborg wrote in reply to Lavater, or
hot ; it is very probable that) as these letters contain nothing but inquiries arising from a
trifling curiosity, he did not reply, but left him, by continuing to read his (Swedenborg’s)
writings, to form his own judgment. That Lavater continued to be a diligent readei?
of the writings of Swedenborg, is evident from certain treatises which he wrote On
the Lord, On Redemption, and The Atonement, which are written in the strictest agree-
ment with Swedenborg’s doctrines on those subjects.
* See La Nouvelle Jerusalem, Deux. Annee, 233.
t ^ee New Jerusalem Magazine for 1790, pp. 179 and 245, where two letters from
Lavater the celebrated author of the " Treatise on Physiognomy, fyc," are inserted ; the
editors say that the orignal I<atin letters were then in their possession.
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