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DOCUMENT 215.
BARON VON HATZEL* TO EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG. +
Well-born Sir,
From my venerable, pious, and deeply learned
friend, his Excellency Count G. Bonde,175 I first heard of the
extraordinary insight and illumination wherewith the Almighty
has been pleased to gift you ; but subsequently I was able to per
ceive and see it more clearly by the writings which you have
published in London, and some of which I have read with
amazement. Now, as from my early youth, with the talent
which God has entrusted to me, I have striven after truth, and
have preferred theosophy to all other things, the desire has
sprung up in me not only to make your acquaintance, but also
in many things to become your disciple, and by following
the same way in which you began and have succeeded so well,
to reach, under your guidance, the same fountain of wisdom
and intelligence, and taste of its waters ; and in making this
request of you I am not impelled by the desire to become
great, or wealthy, or distinguished above others, but only to
acquire wisdom. As you will not be displeased with my motive,
and as you can be convinced of its purity by the spirits with
whom at your own pleasure you hold familiar intercourse ; and
* Some particulars respecting Baron von Hatzel are furnished by Count
Gustavus von Bonde in Document 216.
The German original of this letter is contained in the Bergius Col
lection, Vol. XVI, p. 278, in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm.
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