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Doc. 223.] 239
SWEDENBORG TO DR. BEYER.
me to ask you to procure for me through Captain Sjögård
volumes I, II and VIII of the Arcana Coelestia, i. e. every
thing before no. 2760 and after no. 9442. Mr. Beyer promises
to pay for them in his account with Messrs. Hasselgren. All
the remaining books have arrived from England, but these
they were unable to find. I am under the sense of no small
loss, as long as I have no access to them. I am also dis
satisfied with myself for daring to cause you so much trouble.
With all deference I remain
Your humble servant,
Gottenburg, March 18, 1766.
GABRIEL ANDERSSON BEYER.
DOCUMENT 223.
SECOND LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO DR. BEYER.22*
[Reverend Doctor],
I have at last brought the Book of Revelation
to a close, and send you eight copies of it ; two bound, and
six in sheets, which you will please to dispose of in the follow
ing manner: one copy for yourself, one for the Bishop,† one
for the Dean, one for Dr. Rosén,45 one for the burgomaster,
Mr. Petterson, one for the library ; the two remaining copies
you may lend out to your friends. At the conclusion of every
chapter there are memorable relations separated from the text
by asterisks which you will please to read over first. From
these a thorough knowledge may be gathered of the wretched
state into which the Reformed Churches have been brought by
Faith alone. I am now going from this place to England,
where some noise is probably being made, on account of the
* The Swedish original of this Document is Letter II in the "Sam
lingar för Philantroper," from which the above translation has been made.
In the English and American editions of the Swedenborg Documents this
Document, in a translation taken from the "New Jerusalem Magazine" of
1790 (p. 139), figures as no. I of Swedenborg’s Letters to Dr. Beyer.
Dr. Ekebom (see Note 179).
Bishop Lamberg (see Note 178).
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