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DOCUMENT 248.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S LETTER TO
VENATOR.205*
I hope that the work, entitled "The True
Christian Religion," which has recently left the press, is now
in your hands, and also that the two copies which I sent at
the same time to his Serene Highness the Duke and Land
grave have reached him ; for I greatly desire to have your
opinion concerning the things contained therein, knowing as I
do that by enlightenment from the Lord you will more than
others see in light the truths which are manifested there from
the Word. To-day I send also my reply to the letter which
his Serene Highness the Duke wrote to me lately ; and in
compliance with his orders I speak to him of several con
versations I had with, among others, the Queen of Sweden and
her brother. But these must by no means be regarded as
miracles; for they are simply testimonies that I have been
introduced by the Lord into the spiritual world, and have
intercourse and converse there with angels and spirits ; in order
that the church, which has hitherto remained in ignorance
concerning that world, may know that heaven and hell really
exist, and that man lives after death a man, as before ; and
that thus no more doubts may flow into his mind in respect
to his immortality. Please, deign to satisfy the Duke, your
prince, on this score, that these things are not miracles, but
merely testimonies that I converse with angels and spirits.
The fact and the reason that there ar no miracles at the
* For particulars concerning the history of this letter, see footnote to
Document 246.
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