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DOCUMENT 236.
FIRST LETTER OF J. C. LAVATER186 TO
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
Most reverend and excellent Man,
I doubt not but that you are often troubled
with letters from foreigners with whom you are unacquainted,
and as you are much engaged in meditation, business, travel,
and the company of persons of renown, you will probably con
sider the present application from an unknown Swiss as trifling
and impertinent. Yet knowing that so great a man is my
contemporary, I cannot help inquiring of him a few things
which seem to me to be of the greatest importance ; as I
know no person in the world but yourself (who have given
proofs of an extraordinary and almost Divine knowledge) cap
able of solving my questions, I will therefore take the liberty
of proposing them, trusting that you will condescend to satisfy
me therein as soon as possible.
I. I have been engaged these three years heart and soul
in writing a poem on the future happiness of Christians,† and
have lately written several letters particularly to Zimmerman,
* The English translation, constituting the above Document, appeared
first in the "New Jerusalem Magazine, " of 1790, p. 179 ; the editors of which
state that the Latin original was then in their possession. It was after
wards introduced into the English and American editions of the "Sweden
borg Documents."
The title of this work, which was published at Zürich from 1768 to
1773 in three volumes, is: "Prospects into Eternity " (Aussichten in die
Ewigkeit).
Johan Georg von Zimmerman, the celebrated author of a work on
"Solitude" (Ueber die Einsamkeit), in four volumes.
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