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DOCUMENT 242.
SECOND LETTER OF J. C. LAVATER186 TO
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
Most noble, venerable, and beloved in Christ our Lord,
I have taken the liberty of writing to you a
second time, as it is likely you may not have received my
other letter on account of your travels ; but I have at last
learned by what means this will probably reach you.
I revere the wonderful gifts you have received from God.
I revere the wisdom which shines forth from your writings,
and therefore cannot but seek the friendship of so great and
excellent a man now living. If what is reported be true, God
will show you how much I seek to converse with you in the
simplicity of my mind. I am a young man not yet thirty
years old, a minister of the gospel; I am and shall remain
employed in the cause of Christ as long as I live. I have
written something on the happiness of the future life. O,
if I could exchange letters with you on this subject, or rather
converse!
I add some [of my] writing : You shall know my soul.
One thing I beg of you, Divinely inspired man ! I beseech
you by the Lord not to refuse me!
In the month of March, 1768, died Felix Hess, my best
friend; a youth of Zürich, twenty-four years of age, an upright
* The English translation, constituting this document, appeared first in
the "New Jerusalem Magazine" of 1790, p. 245, together with Document 236;
the editors state there that the Latin originals of these two documents
were then in their hands. The letters, in the form in which they appear
there, were subsequently embodied in the English and American editions of
the "Swedenborg Documents."
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