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Doc. 245.] 313.
FILENIUS TO AURELL.
K.
BISHOP FILENIUS’ TO ASSESSOR AURELL.191*
"I have the honour to offer you my best thanks
for the two letters you had the kindness to address to me.
The first, which was dated December 9, inclosed twelve sheets
of the Minutes of the Most Venerable Consistory of Gotten
burg concerning the circulation in the diocese of Gottenburg
of the gross errors, which the well-born Assessor Emanuel
Swedenborg has published in respect to our pure doctrine of
salvation; likewise an infamous (ohyggeligt) letter of the above
named Assessor , dated October 30 , which had been printed
at Gottenburg, together with ’A Short Synopsis of some of his
printed works,*** all of which unfortunately bear witness of his
delusions and confused ideas in respect to most of the eternal
fundamental truths of our Evangelical Christian faith ; and
also two copies of crude dictata composed in the Swedenborgian
mode of thought and intended for the youth in the Royal
gymnasium of your town. Your second letter, which has like
wise reached me, was dated the 20th of this month ; in this
letter were enclosed sheets 13 and 14 of the printed Minutes
mentioned above, together with a sad account of how this abo
minable infection, which is not grounded in sound reason, and
still less in God’s Holy Word, but consists of untruthful
visions and dreams, by various means is beginning to spread
like a cancer.
"Since the copies of Assessor Swedenborg’s so-called
’
Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love , ’ which
arrived from Amsterdam on May 1 for the opening of the
Diet in Norrköping , were at my request detained in the
custom-house of that town, nothing more has been heard in
Stockholm, either before or since, concerning the singular
* See "Handlingar," &c., pp. 130 to 133.
** Aurell seems to have printed a collection of passages from Sweden
borg’s published writings , to which Dr. Beyer refers in his ’Defence’
(Document 245, P) under the title of Excerpta.
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