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296 [ Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
first, that the clergy should be informed what judgment has
been passed on the writings of Swedenborg by the learned,
whether this judgment be favourable or unfavourable ; secondly,
that the Bishop be requested to have the whole matter in
vestigated in a legal manner, through the action of the vener
able House of the Clergy ; and thirdly, that Dean Kollinius
should be requested to name the leading persons who in this
place are promoting Swedenborgian views. I observe, however,
that my vote in this matter is superfluous, as the Consistory
have already executed the resolutions passed at their last
meeting."
[Rosén.]
Meanwhile Swedenborg himself who was staying at the
time in Amsterdam, had been informed by Dr. Beyer through
a friend of the attempt which was being made by Dr. Ekebom¹79
to cast odium on his writings and to deter others from reading
them. He hastened to defend himself in a letter addressed
to the Consistory, which was enclosed in the following letter
to Dr. Beyer :
E.
ELEVENTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO DR. BEYER.22
"In a letter addressed to me by the highly
esteemed Mr. Peter Hammarberg,194 I received a copy of the
opinion expressed by Dr. Olof Ekebom,179 Dean of Gottenburg,
on the subject of the writings which have been published by
me. Enclosed you find my reply, which you will please to hand
in to the venerable Consistory, after having first taken a copy
of the letter for yourself, and another for the Bishop,178 which
you will please forward to him, so that my reply may not
be suppressed in the Consistory. Should the Dean not be
willing to withdraw and utterly repudiate his opinion, I insist
* The Swedish original of this letter, from which the above translation
has been made, is preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm. It was printed as part of Letter VI in the " Samlingar för
Philantroper" for 1788. An English translation of it was published in the
Supplement to the enlarged English edition of the "Swedenborg Documents"
(p. 4).
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