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132 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SVVEDENBORG.
"As to what regards the dracoiiical spirits, they are all removed far towards
the south, where the learned obtain a certain place, and every one there his cel-
lulam,or little chamber, wherein he confirms himseli in justrfication byfaith alone ;
and they who have confirmed this from the Word of God, depart thence into a
desert, and so on further. The rest, when they come out, obtain no dwellings.
To what place they afterwards go, I do not yet know : in heaven there is no
place for them. It befals them according to the description in the Apocalypse
Revealed, 421. But that abyss which is there described is now removed farther
in the south, as observed before.—I remain, with all friendship and confidence,
^^•» " Emanuel Swedenborg.
Stockholm, April 30, 1770.
LETTER X.
To Br. Beyer.
" As I am going, in a few days, to Amsterdam, I shall take my leave of you
in this letter, hoping that our Saviour will support you in good health, preserve
you from farther violence, and bless your thoughts. I convey you herewith the
copy, of a letter, which I am about to send to the universities, as well as to the
great chancellor of justice. Please to salute kindly Dr. Rosen, and I am, &c.,
" Emanuel Swedenborg.
" Stockholm, July 23, 1770."
Copy of a Letter addressed to the Universities of TJpsal, Lund and Albo.
" In a few days I am going to Amsterdam, and intend to publish the whole
Theology of the New Church, the foundation whereof will be the worship of the
Lord our Saviour, on which foundation, if no temple should now be built, lupa-
naria (brothels)* would be erected.
" Now having been informed, that the religious trial, relative to Dr. Beyer and
Dr. Rosen, in Gottenburg, was immediately taken up and surprisingly termi-
nated by the senate, and as this may become a subject of conversation in many
places during my absence, therefore, to prevent any malicious judgment, which
may probably proceed from the mouths of certain persons, arising from their
ignorance or interior malice, it is my duty from the importance and necessity of
the subject, to communicate what I have delivered to his Majesty thereon,
which is as follows :
—
" ’ I have been informed by two gentlemen in the senatorial department ofjustice,
that the senators are pontifex maximus, to which I then gave no answer ; but in
case I should still hear such assertions from them, I shall answer that they are
not at all pontifex maximus, but vicarius vicarii pontificis maximi ; because Jesus
Christ our Saviour is the only Pontifex Maximus; the states of the kingdom are
His vicarius, wherefore they are answerable to Him, and the senators are the
vicara (or the states ; because they are appointed, and that hence they are vicarius
vicarii pontificis maximi. That the Pope of Rome called himseU pontificem maxi-
mum, is of pride, because he has taken and assumed to himself all the power of
Christ our Saviour, and placed himself on His throne, making the people believe
that he is Christ upon earth. Every inferior pontifex or vicarius pontificis maximi
* See above p. 131, note.
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