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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 131
them. It is well known, that among the clergy there are also erroneous spirits,
in this country as well as in other parts of the world. When she had related
this among other things, she departed to the dragon spirits (draconicos), who on
the day of her death first spoke through her, and she is still with them.
" An extract from the records by the dean (Ekebom) of Dec. 6th, has also been
communicated to me, in which he still continues his usual indecent invectives,
which I may consider as barkings, against which we must not attempt to take
up a stone to cast at them aod to drive them away.
" I am glad that you are translating into Swedish the little work of The Inter-
course between the Soul and Body. It has been very well received abroad in all
places, as well as by many inteUigent persons here in Stockholm.—I remain, &c,,
" Emanuel Swedenborg.
" Stockholm, Dec. 29, 1769."
LETTER IX.
To Dr. Beyer.
"I received your letter dated the 18th March, together with a copy of that
which you delivered to his Majesty. You mention also that a report has arrived
at Gottenburg, concerning a resolution which was to have been proposed in the
senate ; but that, since the copy of that letter which I wrote you has been com-
municated to senator Count Ekeblad, and to the great chancellor of justice, this
matter has been brought forward again, and terminated agreeably to the letter
from the great chancellor of justice to the Consistory at Gottenburg, of which
letter [ request you to send me a copy. Had the first proposal been established,
that Swedenborgianism, as they call it, should not be spoken of, and this, notwith-
standing, signifies the worship of the Lord, what would have been the result, but
a fear in the clergy to speak about Christ and his protection of the human race ;
for in such case they would have i*un the risk of being insulted as supporters of
Swedenborgianism, and in consequence thereof, Christianity in Sweden would
decrease and become Socinianism, and finally Heathenism, which may be con-
firmed from Matthew xii. 30, and Mark ix. 40, Such would have been the off-
spring born from that first proposal. This is the reason, that when certain zeal-
ous clergymen in this city first heard the rumor thereof, that they became aston-
ished, imagining justly that, by such a way of proceeding, Christianity in this
country would totally vanish. I am informed that the bishops and many of
the clerical order of the states at the Diet expressed themselves with great pro-
priet)^ concerning those doctrinal principles which were then discussed.
" What has been presented to the consistories against my writings, not hav-
ing been communicated to me, I am totally ignorant of what passed in the
senate on that subject.
" I go next June to Amsterdam, where I intend to publish the Universal Theolo-
gy of the New Church ; the worship of the Lord is the foundation therein, and if
upon that foundation the true house, or temple, shall not be built, others will
erect upon it lupanaria, or brothels.*
* Which spiritually mean perversions and falsifications of all the truths of the Word.
(See Rev. xvii.)
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