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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 129
prediction in the Revelations, xii. They are thence become so filled with enmi-
ty and hatred towards our Saviour, and, consequently, towards His holy Word,
and all that belongs to ihe New Church, that they cannot even bear to hear the
name of Christ mentioned. When the sphere of the Lord, proceeding from the
heavens, lights on them, they become as it were mad, and in a terrible rnge ; and
directly seek to hide themselves in holes and caverns, as spoken of in the Reve-
lations vi. 16. Your deceased wife was with me yesterday, and informed me
of a variety of things concerning what she thought, and what she had spoken
to you her husband, and to the clergymen, the seducers. Were I at this time
near you, I could relate a number of things on this head, which will not admit
of being sent in writing. —I remain, &c.,
•’
Emanuel Swedenborg.
" Stockholm, October 30, 1769."
" P. S. This letter may be shown to others, and also copied or printed, if
deemed necessary. Two honorable friends in London have sent me an invita-
tion there, and 1 have almost resolved on going thither the ensuing spring.
" I have been told, that in Gottenbnrg a letter has been printed, which men-
tions, that I was ordered in Paris to depart from that city, which is a direct false-
hood : Count Creutz, our envoy in Paris, can certify.’"*
LETTER VII.
To Dr. Beyer.
" In my last letter the shortness of time would not permit me to give an an-
swer with respect to the rehtion of the boy of Skara, which, if true, proves the
communication of spirits with man. A genteel and rich family here in Stock-
holm are desirous of taking the boy into cheir house, and to educate him in every
branch he may wish to learn. If the youth has an inclination, and could have
an opportunity of the company of some person coming this way, the family
would be very happy ; and in that case you will be pleased to furnish thirty
dollars for the expenses on the journey, and to give him my direction, that I may
conduct him to the house. I will pass in silence his vision of the white serpents,
which he had in his tender infancy, especially as it may admit of being explain-
ed in different senses ; but his knowing the use of herbs, and the cure of certain
diseases, if really the case, is not from the reason, that such diseases and cures
exist in the other life among spirits and angels; but there exist spiritual diseases
and spiritual uses, which correspond with the natural diseases and cures in this
world, so that the correspondences effect such things when they happen. And
as there are no natural diseases among the spirits in the spiritual world, there
are neither any hospitals; but, instead of them there are spiritual mad-houses,
in which are those who theoretically denied God, and in others, such as practi-
cally did the same. Those who in the world were idiots, at their arrival in the
other world are also foolish and idiots ; but being divested of their externals,
and their internals opened as is the case with them all, they acquire an under-
* Respecting Swedenborg’s visit to Paris, in order to publish in that city his " Uni-
versal Theology, ^c." See above p. 91.
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