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Doc. 245.] 383
SWEDENBORG TO DR. BEYER.
the Privy Council as a tertius interveniens,* yet to do so
would do no good, as I distinctly did so a short time before
my departure [see close of Document 245, X, p. 376], and
supported with weighty arguments the cause itself, as well as
your case. I wonder that they keep stirring up this affair at
Gottenburg; I will complain of them at the next Diet, when
I send over my Universa Theologia Novi Coli et Novæ
Ecclesiæ, which will leave the press towards the close of the
month of June. I will send two copies of this work to each
House, and request them to appoint for its consideration a
general committee from all the Houses, in order to put an
end to the affair in this way. I am certain of this, that after
the appearance of the book referred to, the Lord our Saviour
will operate both mediately and immediately towards the
establishment throughout the whole of Christendom of a New
Church based upon this "Theology.’ The New Heaven, out of
which the New Jerusalem will descend, will very soon be
completed (Rev. xxi, 1-3). When our adversaries enter the
other life, they will have their places assigned to them. I
pity them. With my kindest remembrance to Doctor Rosén,
I remain, with all affection,
"Your most obedient servant and friend,
"EM. SWEDENBORG.
"Amsterdam, April 30, 1771."
The next letter, which was written after the " Universal
Theology" had been published, contains the last utterance
Swedenborg made on the subject of the difficulty with the
Consistory of Gottenburg:
the "Samlingar för Philantroper" for 1788. It has not heretofore been
translated into English.
That is, if Swedenborg pled the cause of Drs. Beyer and Rosén be
fore the Privy Council.
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