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LETTER TO M. VENATOR. 169
pray you to choose among them those who love the truth, and who love it only
because it is the truth. If you take others, they will see in this work no light,
but only darkness. That which is reported of the daughter of the Prince Mar-
grave in Sweden, is a fiction invented by some foolish novelist, and I never even
heard of it before. As to that which is related of the brother of the queen of
Sweden, it is entirely true ; but it should not be regarded as a miracle ; it is but
one of those jnemorabilia, of the same kind as those inserted in the book just
mentioned, concerning Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, and others. All these memo-
rabilia are but testimonies that I have been introduced by the Lord into the spir-
itual world, as to my spirit, and that I converse with spirits and angels. It is true
also that I have conversed with a person mentioned in the journal you cite, and,
six months ago, with the deceased Stanislaus, king of Poland, in a certain society
where he was, and where it was not known who he was. He made all the
happiness of his life consist in remaining thus unknown in these assemblies,
and in conversing there familiarly with the spirits and angels as one of them. I
afterwards saw him transferred to a northern region, where I learnt that he had
been called by a society of Roman Catholics, over whom he presided. In the
same way, I have often conversed with the Roman Pontiff, who has lately died.
After his decease he remained with me a whole day ; but it is not permitted me
to publish anything respecting his manner of hving, or his state. You may see,
if you will, what I have written in my last work, concerning the Pontiff who
reigned some thirty or forty years ago. Treat favorably, I pray you, whatever
has relation to the honor of God.—I am, with respect, &c.,
"Emanuel Swedenborg.
*’ Amsterdam, July 15, 1771."
LETTER III.
To M. Venator.
*’
I hope that my new work, entitled True Christian Religion, is now in your
hands, and that the two copies, which I sent at the same time to the Landgrave,
have reached him. I desire to have your judgment upon the subject there
treated oi, because 1 know, that, being enlightened by the Lord, you will there
see ia light, more than others, the truths which are there manifested in accord-
ance with the Word. I send to day my reply to the letter which his High-
ness, your Prince, has recently sent to me ; and by his orders, I speak to him of
the conversations which I have had with two personages in the spiritual world.
But these conversations, as well as that between the queen of Sweden and her
brother when he was living, which was made known to me by him in the spir-
itual world, ought by no means to be regarded as miracles ; they are only testi-
monies that I have been introduced by the Lord into the spiritual world, and
that I have been in association with angels and spirits, in order that the church,
which until now had remained in ignorance concernmg that world, may know
that heaven and hell exist in reality, and that man lives after death, a man, as
before; and that thus there might be no more doubt as to his immortality.
Deign, I pray you, to satisfy his Highness, that these are not miracles, but only
Cestimoaies that I converse with angels and spirits.
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