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Doc. 215.] BARON HATZEL TO SWEDENBORG. 229
as you yourself know and teach that all good is and must be
communicated to others, I therefore flatter myself that you will
promote what I intend, and not withhold your help, and,
especially, that you will kindly point out to me in which of
the five books of Moses, in which chapter, and in which two
verses, lies concealed the power of entering into consort with
spirits, likewise, how this power is to be used, and how one
must comport himself. It is a great favour which I here ask
from you whom I love ; yet, if I consider that true love re
fuses nothing, I am confident that you will the more readily
grant my request, as you may rest assured, that I seek the
good and the true solely for the sake of the good and the
true and for the sake of their use ; and that I shall be most
profoundly grateful to you, my amiable preceptor, and prepared
at all times to render any service in return. If you comply
with my request, you will thereby facilitate and promote very
much my intention to translate all your writings into the High
German and French languages, in order that the Divine Truths
contained therein may be made accessible even to the unedu
cated. Will you kindly take my ideas, or rather my request,
into consideration, and examine whether I am a capable sub
ject or not, and act according to your discretion ; and what
ever you may do, I shall be pleased therewith, and submit
to your judgment respecting me ? Should you be inclined to
accept the testimony of his Excellency Count von Bonde, he
will willingly speak in my favour, and endeavour to prevail
upon you to answer me. He will also undertake to forward
to me the letters with which you may graciously favour me.
As soon as I receive your reply to which I look forward
eagerly, I shall take the liberty frankly to communicate to you
some points which have struck me in reading your writings.
But meanwhile I pray that God may keep you for many
years in a state of health, and that He may speed His work
through you.
* The idea that there are two verses in the Sacred Scripture by which
man receives the power of holding converse with spirits, has been widely
spread among necromancers of all ages.
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