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Doc. 249.] 397
BARON TILAS TO CRONSTEDT.
B.
SECOND LETTER OF BARON D. TILAS206 TO A. F. CRONSTEDT.107
Since writing my last letter I have been in
company with this wonderful man. Many consider him crazy ;
but I desire to scan the matter more thoroughly before ex
pressing myself upon it. Senator Höpken28 has visited him
for three or four hours ; likewise Senator Tessin.39 He has
digested his theses in five books, but I do not recollect the
names of all. One treats of Heaven, another of Hell, another
of the "New Jerusalem," and the "Last Judgment, " &c. Only
three copies of these works have been introduced into the
country ; one for his own use and another for the censor ; the
third copy Senator Bonde175 has procured for himself from
abroad. He has now asked, and likewise obtained permission,
to import fifty copies, with the proviso that he send in a list
of those who receive copies. He intends to submit them to
the judgment of the bishops at the Diet. Just hear this sur
prising news : The Last Judgment has already taken place
in 1757, and he talks about it as familiarly as if he had been
the secretary there, and taken down the minutes. Since that
time the judgment board is constantly in session, and parties
are judged as soon as they arrive.
This information must not be spread abroad, since I do
not desire to be accountable for it. These things are known
to thousands here ; but I do not think it advisable they should
become generally known. Yet I do not object to your having
allayed the suspicions of the gentleman of whom you write in
your last, since this was quite proper. But to specify merely
what he says about the Last Judgment, this is such an extra
ordinary statement, that it seems quite necessary to move care
fully in the matter.
D. TILAS.
Stockholm, March 24, 1760.
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