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COUNT HÖPKEN . 633
borg’s society. Still at times, as while conversing with or writing
to persons of a sceptical turn of mind, Count Höpken himself seems
to have been seized with a similar scepticism, as appears from the
following letter which he wrote after Swedenborg’s decease to Mr.
Wargentin, the Secretary of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm :
“I am sorry that Agent Seele116 did not inform me sooner, that
the late Swedenborg had sent me last autumn a copy of his last
work . If I had heard of it sooner, I might have done my duty,
and thanked him for this attention. If the book is not bound, I
wish you would send it to my Commissioner, Mr. Nyrén, Blasiehol
men, with instructions to have it bound in English binding, so as
to match the remaining collection. After the coronation there ought
to be a hundred opportunities to send it to Linköping to Professor
Älff. That honest old gentleman, Swedenborg, has spoken about
so favourably in various places, that he has even made me
his apostle after his death. About a week ago I received a very
courteous letter from an unknown gentleman in Denmark, in which
he entreats me for his own and his wife’s sake, to give them some
information about Swedenborg’s system, and to act as their guide.
Never in my life have I been more surprised, nor have I laughed
more, nor have been more non-plussed.
HÖPKEN ."
Ulfåsa, May 17, 1772.*
me
The unknown gentleman , of whom Count Höpken here wrote,
was General Tuxen of Elsinore; and although Count Höpken was
very much surprised by his letter, he still wrote General Tuxen
a very interesting account of Swedenborg in reply, and correspond
ed with him for several years. In his letter of May 21, 1773, he
says, “Your correspondence, Sir, is not only very agreeable to me,
but also very edifying." In 1786, Count Höpken joined the Exegetic
Philanthropic Society, which was devoted to the spread of the
doctrines of Swedenborg, so it would seem that during the latter part
of his life until the time of his death in 1789, he really studied
Swedenborg’s doctrines more deeply, and became even to some
extent a believer in them. This appears especially from the letters
that he wrote to General Tuxen after 1772, which will be found in
Section IX .
A copy of this letter is contained in the " Bergius Collection of Letters," which is preserved
in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
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