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164 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
way, the same is a thief and a robber. I am the door : by Me if an^’* man enter
in, he shall be saved " (John x. 1,9). I have been told from the Lord, through
an angel from heaven, that I may securely sleep upon my pillow during the
nights, which are to be understood to mean the darkness in which the world at
present lies with respect to the church.’
" But this may be enough for the present ; farewell, my dear Sir : as a man
that loves the truth above all things, continue your affection towards me, who
am likewise a worshiper of truth.—I am your humble servant,
" Gabriel Andrew Beyer.
"Gottenburg, June 15, 1771."
XXVIl.
SWEDENBORG’S LETTER
TO
DR. MENANDER, ARCHBISHOP OF SWEDEN.’
"Most Reverend Dr.,&c.
*’
I have the pleasure of sending you a small work which I published in my
youth, on a new method of finding the longitude both by sea and land, by lunar
observations,t a work which has just been re-published at Amsterdam, and
which has been submitted to the examination of the learned societies and acad-
emies. You will greatly oblige by forwarding a copy of it to the professor of
astronomy at Abo, in order that if he find this method suited to his genius, and
worthy of his application, he may put it in practice. In foreign countries seve-
ral persons at present employ this method of calculating the ephemerides by
pairs of stars, and a great advantage has already been experienced from those
which have been made for some years past.
"The Apocalypse is now explained, or rather revealed, but I have not yet
had an opportunity of sending to your reverence any copies of it, and also to
the library. Please to inform me, to whom I shall entrust it here, in order to
send it to you at Stockholm.
" Several persons are now occupied in examining whether this is actually the
Consummation of the Age, and at the same time the Coming of the Lord, and
the Commencement of the New Church, which the Lord will establish. There
are those who believe that the present faith, which is a faith in God the Father
for the sake of the Son, is the very faith which saves man ; but it is demon-
* This letter was first published in 1785, in the French Translation of Swedenborg’s
work entitled, Intercourse between the Soul and the Body. (See Dr. Tafel’s Documents
concerning the Life of Swedenborg, p. 33i.) The date is not given; but as it was
evidently written immediately after the publication of A])ocalypse Revealed, which ap-
peared at Amsterdam in 17(50, the letter was most probably written in that year.
t The title of this work is, Methodus nova inveniendi Longitudinis Locorum Terra
marique, ope Lunce, which during the author’s lifetime passed through three editions.
See above p, 28.
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