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278 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 243.
man, of a noble mind, striving after a Christian spirit, but not
yet clothed with Christ. Tell me, I pray, what he is doing ?
paint to me his figure, state, &c., in such words, that I may
know that God’s truth is in you.
I send also a cipher writing which you will understand,
if what is reported of you be true. I request it may not be
shown to any person.
I am your brother in Christ ; answer very soon a sincere
brother, and answer the letter I have sent in such a manner,
that I may see what I am believing on the testimony of others.
Christ be with us, to whom we belong living or dead.
JOHN CASPER LAVATER,
Minister at the Orphan Asylum.
Zürich in Switzerland,
September 24, 1769.
DOCUMENT 243.
TENTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO DR. BEYER.2
22*
Reverend Doctor and Dear Friend,
Shortness of time would not permit me
in my last letter to answer the point about the boy from
Skara. If the account about him is true, it proves the com
munication of spirits with man. A genteel and rich family
here in Stockholm are desirous of taking the boy into their
house, and of educating him in whatever branch he may wish to
* The Swedish, original from which the above translation has been
made, is preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stock
holm. It was printed in the " Samlingar för Philantroper" of 1788, as
Letter X. The English translation of the letter, which was incorporated
in the English and American editions of the "Swedenborg Documents,"
appeared originally in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, pp. 30
and 75.
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