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DOCUMENT 222.
DR. BEYER22 TO EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
Well-born Sir,
A long felt sense of duty impels me to return
you my humble thanks for the printed sheets of the Apocalypsis
Revelata which you kindly sent me. Since receiving them my
zeal has very much increased, and I rejoice at the good hope
which you kindly hold out in respect to it. It cannot be other
wise, when one ponders over it more deeply, than that the
spiritual sense reigns in this book hitherto so completely
sealed. The desire was long since awakened in me, and be
comes stronger from day to day, to go through the whole of
your theological writings; and by the kindness of my cousin
I have succeeded in getting most of them into my hands, and
have also had the opportunity to read a great part of them.
most of the letters have been restored to the Library of the Academy.
A few he was unable to regain ; one of these has since found its way
into the British Museum, where it is exhibited in one of the glass
cases. Ten of the letters which were published in the " Samlingar för
Philantroper," appeared in an English translation in the New Jerusalem
Magazine of 1790, and from that source they were introduced by Dr.
Im. Tafel into Part II of his German collection of the Swedenborg
Documents ; to these he subsequently added six of the remaining letters
which had been published in the Swedish periodical. All these letters were
introduced into the enlarged edition of the English translation of the
Swedenborg Documents, published in 1855 ; but only fourteen of them are
in the American reprint of 1847.
The original of the above letter which has never before appeared in
print, is preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
* A copy taken from the Swedish original is contained in the Bergius
Collection, Vol. XVI, p . 275, in the Library of the Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm.
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