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376 TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG. [Doc. 245.
be found which has never before been discovered, and which
cannot be discovered except by real vision, and intercourse
with those who are in the spiritual world. In order that
reason may see and acknowledge this, I beg that one of your
Excellencies may peruse what has been said on this subject
in my book, ’De Amore Conjugiali,’ in a memorable relation
on pages 314 to 316 ; his Excellency Count Ekeblad and his
Excellency Count Bjelke possess the book. If any doubt
should still remain, I am ready to testify with the most solemn
oath that may be prescribed to me, that this is the whole
truth and a reality, without the least fallacy. That our Sa
viour permits me to experience this, is not on my own account,
but for the sake of a sublime interest which concerns the
eternal welfare of all Christians. Since such is the real state
of things, it is wrong to declare it to be untruth and falsity ;
although it may be pronounced to be something that cannot
be comprehended.
"If now the rumour which has been spread is correct,
viz. that such things are contained in the letter which was
sent from the office of the Chancellor of Justice to the Con
sistory of Gottenburg, it follows hence that my books are de
clared to be heretical, and that I am declared to speak un
truths and falsehoods in matters of revelation, and, further,
that, from beginning to end, all this has been determined upon
without giving me a hearing. What else results from this,
but that in agreement with the resolution any severe treat
ment* may be brought forward by the Consistory of Gotten
burg and Bishop Filenius, and sentence may be pronounced
upon me, without my being heard in the affair at all ; for of
what use is a declaration or a defence after the sentence has
been pronounced ?
"This is the reason why, as I said above, ’I am compelled
to have recourse to Your Majesty, since I have been treated
as no one has ever been treated before in Sweden since the
introduction of Christianity, and still less since the establish
ment of freedom,’ by being treated as I have been, without a
hearing having been granted me.
* The German translation adds here, "even as to my being cast into prison."
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