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260 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 234.
when yet the angels together with the blessed have in the end
to derive their information from the priesthood of Christ ; which
with your angels you certainly do not acknowledge with a
sufficient degree of reverence, with your knees, as it were,
bent, and your feet [un]covered.
Let this be sufficient, and may erroneous views like the
above not deceive you in, and deprive you of, the hope of your
New Church. One thing more I would like to ask you, viz.
that you would write a history of your life explaining how
and by what interior incidents it happened that from a
philosopher you have become a revelator.
Farewell and remember
Your sincere and obedient
F. C. ETINGER.
Stuttgart, December 4, 1766.
DOCUMENT 234.
SIXTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO DR. BEYER.2
MEMORANDUM.
22*
Several questions have been propounded to
me by your friend, to which you will please to receive the
following as an answer :
I. My opinion concerning the writings of Böhmet and L
I have never read either ; I was forbidden to read writers
on dogmatic and systematic theology, before heaven was opened
* The Swedish original from which the above translation has been made
is preserved among the Swedenborg MSS. in the Library of the Academy
of Sciences in Stockholm. It was printed in 1788 in the "Samlingar för
Philantroper," as Letter I. The first English translation was published in the
"New Jerusalem Magazine" of 1790, p. 73 ; and it has been transferred
thence, as Letter IV, to the English and American editions of the
"Swedenborg Documents."
See Notes 40 and 41, and also Note 161, iv.
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