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Doc. 245. ] SWEDENBORG TO THE UNIVERSITIES. 381
they are simply the vicarius vicarii pontificis maximi, since
Christ, our Saviour, is alone pontifex maximus; that the
Houses of the Diet are His vicarius, and therefore are
responsible to Him ; and that the Privy Council is the vicarius
of the Houses of the Diet, and only as such has plenipoten
tionary power; and consequently it is the vicarius vicarii
pontificis maximi. The Roman pope’s styling himself pontifex
maximus is due to arrogance ; for he claims and takes upon
himself all the power of Christ our Saviour, making the people
believe that he is Christ on earth.
"Every lesser pontifex or every vicarius pontificis maximi
ought to have his consistory. The Houses of the Diet have
theirs in the reverend House of the Clergy ; the Privy Council
has its especially in the universities : but in the settlement of
the present matter it has made the Consistory of Gottenburg
its consistory, to whose opinions it is said to have adhered
verbatim; without being aware of the fact that this trial has
been the most important and the most solemn that has been
before any council during the last 1700 years, since it concerns
the New Church which is predicted by the Lord in Daniel
and in the Apocalypse, and agrees with what the Lord says
in Matthew xxiv, 22.
"I have not yet received any answer from the Privy
Council; this matter has been before it once, when it was
resolved to postpone it until those members of the council,
who had previously examined it, should return.
"EM. SWEDENBORG."
The copy which was forwarded to the University of Lund,
was addressed by Swedenborg to his nephew, Dr. Charles
Jesper Benzelius,99 among whose correspondence it is preserved
in the Cathedral-Library of Linköping. This copy agrees in
every particular with that which was communicated by Sweden
borg to Dr. Beyer, except that it is introduced by the follow
ing words:
"Most honoured and dear Brother,
"Relying on our near relationship and friendship,
I send you the enclosed, desiring you to communicate it to
your University; as I have also done in the case of the two
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