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Doc. 218.] SWEDENBORG TO COUNT HÖPKEN. 233
apart is this ; spirits are kept in spiritual, and men in natural,
thought and speech ; whereby they are separated so as to
make one only by correspondences; the nature of which has
likewise been treated of. As long therefore as spirits are in
a spiritual, and men in a natural state, they are not brought
together so as to converse with one another, although they
are together in affection ; but when spirits converse with men
they are out of their spiritual state, and in a natural state
like men, and then they may bring them into danger of soul
and life, as has been stated above. For this reason they have
to be kept apart, so that the spirits do not know anything of
man, nor man of them, although they are always together ;
for man cannot live unless he be associated with spirits, through
whom he is connected with heaven and hell, and thereby
receives his life.
I am bold enough to pray you most humbly to write to
Baron Hatzel ; remember me kindly to him, give him my ex
cuse, and communicate to him, as an answer to his letter, as
much as you please of what I have here written ; for he writes
on this subject in his letter to me, and desires information. I
remain, with all deference and respect,
Your most humble servant,
EM. SWEDENBORG.
Stockholm, August 11 , 1760.
DOCUMENT 218.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO COUNT
HÖPKEN.28 *.
Your Excellency,
When I had the honour of being with you, I
promised to send you my Regnum Minerale; but on looking for
it I found that it was gone, and I remembered then that I
* The copy of Swammerdam’s Biblia Naturæ presented by Swedenborg
to Count Höpken containing the Swedish original of the above letter is
nowinthe possession of Prof. Lovén ofthe Carolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
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