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Doc. 252.] 405
HÖPKEN’S TESTIMONY.
tion) ; for otherwise it would be my own; but now I know for
certain, that what I write is the living truth of God."
8. When a man dies, his soul does not divest itself of its
peculiarities (böjelser) ; these he takes with him : when I could
not refrain from asking him what Professor D. Nils Wallerius209
busies himself with; "He still goes about," he said, "and holds
disputations. "
9. His former works were printed in London, but his latter
in Amsterdam. He has, nevertheless, been over to England,
in order to present them to the Royal Society ; and on his
return home he presented them in Copenhagen to the King
of Denmark ; even as last week he presented them to both
their Majesties in Drottningholm. They have been favourably
received everywhere. He had only twelve copies of the works
with him in this country, four of which are intended for the
public libraries, and four more for our most prominent bishops.
That all this is Swedenborg’s own relation, and that every
thing I have written I have seen and heard with my bodily
eyes and ears, I attest with the signature of my name,
CARL CHRISTOFFER GJÖRWELL.
DOCUMENT 252.
COUNT HÖPKEN’S28 TESTIMONY.
The circumstances under which this testimony was obtained,
are stated by Count Höpken in a letter to Mr. Wargentin,
introduced into Note 28 (Vol. I, p. 633) thus: " About a week
ago I received a very courteous letter from an unknown
gentleman in Denmark, in which he entreats me, for his own
and his wife’s sake, to give them some information about Sweden
borg’s system, and to act as their guide." This gentleman was
Christian Tuxen,201 General Commissary of war in Elsinore, and
his letter resulted in a friendly correspondence with Count
Höpken until the year 1781. In his letters, of which an
English translation is given below, the Swedish statesman
gives his estimate of Swedenborg’s character and writings.
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