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314 [Doc. 86.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
would be there chiefly in their element; like seeks like, and the
finer does not naturally seek the coarser ; so that there are
more grounds for believing (although I willingly leave this
to your judgment) that God has His seat in the sun, as the
Bible says. With regard to the fire, it would be too gross
an idea to suppose that the bodies of the damned are to be
tortured there ; for the pains of burning are not caused
naturally without destruction. When the fire burns, it causes
a sensation as if it was tearing something asunder, and as if it
was dissolving and destroying something; where there is no de
struction, there can be no pain caused by burning; for such a
purpose the remorses of conscience might be a sufficiently
strong fire. I hope that my philosophizing on such a subject
may not be misinterpreted ; for after all God’s Word is the
foundation (of everything].
With respect to the written matters which I mentioned in
my last, I should like very much to have an opportunity to
publish some of them, but I would prefer to show some of
them actually at work. I did not say anything about my
having made a minute description of our Swedish blasting
furnaces, which I handed in to the Royal College of Mines;
this is the beginning of a description of all our mines.* I
have also submitted a little treatise with this title : “New
Directions for discovering mineral veins, or some hints hither
to unknown for the discovery of mineral veins and treasures
long hidden in the earth, ” which was favourably received
by those whom it concerned . + It is very probable, however,
that what I have printed in connection with a decimal system
in our coinage and measures, and which fills a sheet , will be
* See Note to Document 85 .
+ A duplicate of this treatise was sent by Swedenborg to Ericus
Benzelius for the benefit of the Upsal professors, before whom it was read
on Feb. 5, 1720. A photo-lithographic copy of it is contained in Vol. I
of the photo-lithographed MSS. of Swedenborg, from pages 106 to 119.
The original is at present in the Cathedral-Library at Linköping, in Vol.
XL of the Benzelius Collection, No. 73.
# Förslag til wart Mynts och Måls indelning, så at rekningen kan
lättas och alt bråck afskaffas (Proposal for regulating our coinage and
measures, by which computation is facilitated, and fractions are abolished ).
Stockholm , 1719.
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