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248 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 229.
springing from the faith of the present day, which is treated
of above, consist of the confirmations of this faith, which are
falsities; these are contained in its goods, of which man is
ignorant, but which is felt by the angels.
[EM. SWEDENBORG.]
[Stockholm, middle of September, 1766 ;
see Document 203, A and B.]
DOCUMENT 229.
FIRST LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO C. F. ETINGER.182 *
Having returned within the last few days from
a journey abroad to Holland and England, I received two of
your letters, the one dated October 13, 1765, together with the
other ; for which I offer you my thanks. The words : "From
things heard and seen" (ex auditis et visis) I have inscribed
on five works, 1. Heaven and Hell, 2. The New Jerusalem and
its Heavenly Doctrine, 3. The Last Judgment, 4. The White
Horse, 5. The Inhabitants of the Planets. The following works
were published afterwards : 1. Of the Lord, 2. Of the Sacred
Scripture, 3. The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem,
4. Of Faith, 5. Of the Spiritual World, 6. The Wisdom of the
Angels respecting the Divine Providence, 7. The Wisdom of
* The Latin original of this Document, from which the above trans
lation has been made, was printed in Volume IV of Clemm’s "Vollständige
Einleitung in die Religion und gesammte Theologie" (Complete Introduction
to Religion and the whole of Theology), Tübingen, 1767 ; it was afterwards
reprinted in Dr. Im. Tafel’s German edition of the "Swedenborg Docu
ments," and in 1855 it was inserted in the enlarged English edition of these
Documents ("Supplement," p. 75). The first English translation of this
letter was published in the Appendix to the second edition of the "Inter
course between the Soul and the Body," London, 1784 ; where it is stated
on p. 41, that it was prepared from the Danish translation. This trans
lation was republished in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" of 1790, p. 34;
and afterwards in the "Intellectual Repository" for 1840, p. 356. The same
translation was afterwards introduced into the English and American editions
of Dr. Im. Tafel’s "Swedenborg Documents."
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