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650 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
which he did after the year 1619. These works were the cause of
additional persecutions, wherefore he went in 1624 to Dresden, in
order to have his writings examined. He was well received and pro
tected at Court, but after his return to Görlitz he died in November
of the same year.
NOTE 41.
SWEDENBORG AND BÖHME.
We do not object to paragraph 16 of Pernety’s account be
cause of its containing statements incompatible with Swedenborg’s
doctrines, or because of its throwing a false light on his character;
but we refuse to admit its genuineness simply because Swedenborg
declared in a letter to Dr. Beyer that he had never read the writings
of Jacob Böhme. His words on this subject are contained in a letter,
dated Feb. 1767, which will be found in Section IX: “You desire
to know my opinion respecting the writings of Böhme and L.: I
have never read them, and I was forbidden to read authors on
dogmatic and systematic theology, before heaven was opened to me ;
because unfounded opinions and fictions might have easily insinuated
themselves thereby, which afterwards could only have been removed
with difficulty.” The information contained in Document 6, § 16, seems
to have been conveyed to Sweden by Augustus Nordensköld, who
was in London in 1780, thus two years before the above account
was sent by himself and his brother C. F. Nordensköld to Pernety.
NOTE 42.
SWEDENBORG AND HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY.
The truth of the statement contained in Document 6, § 17, we deny
in toto, because it is opposed in principle to Swedenborg’s doctrine of
discrete degrees, according to which there is a perfection in the particles
of every created substance in a threefold ratio from the outermost to the
innermost degree; the innermost degree being far above the range of
chemistry. On this subject Swedenborg says inhis work on the Divine
Love and Wisdom,” Nos. 195 and 197: “ The first degree is the all
in all in the following degrees; and the reason of this is, because the
degrees of every subject and of every object are homogeneous, and
they are homogeneous because they are produced by the first degree.
For their formation is such that the first by combining or gathering
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