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316 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
ever afterwards, I remain, though personally unknown to you,
with much respect and friendship
"Your most obedient servant,
"Petrus Filenius.
"Stockholm, December 28, 1769."
At the time Bishop Filenius sent the preceding letter to
Assessor Aurell, Swedenborg wrote the following letter to his
friend, Dr. Beyer:
L.
FOURTEENTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO DR. BEYER.22
"Reverend Doctor and Dear friend,
"Your letter, which was written on the 2nd of
December, I have received only to-day, through neglect of
the letter-carriers who have kept it thus long in their hands.
Your last letter also, containing 30 dalers in silver, was duly
received, for which please accept my best thanks. I have like
wise received the printed letter, about which there was at
first a great ado in the House of the Clergy. Such a noise,
however, does no harm ; for its effect is like that of fermen
tation in the preparation of wine, by which it is cleared of im
purities ; for unless what is wrong is ventilated, and thus ex
pelled, what is right cannot be seen and adopted.
"I have indeed heard about the doings in the Ecclesiastical
Committee of the venerable House of the Clergy, yet have
not taken a single step in defence of the case ; for I know that
our Saviour Himself defends His Church, especially against
those who refuse to enter through the true door into the
sheepfold, that is, into the church, and thus into heaven; such
* The original of this Document, from which the above translation
has been made, together with Swedenborg’s first draught of the same, is
preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. It
was printed as Letter XI in the "Samlingar för Philantroper" for 1788.
The first English translation was published in the "New Jerusalem Maga
zine" for 1790, and this translation was embodied in the English and
American editions of the " Swedenborg Documents."
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