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414 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 252.
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sides, I assure you, that with me honores non mutant mores;
on the contrary, I shall endeavour on all occasions to show
the sincere and perfect esteem with which I always am, Sir,
"Your most obedient servant,
"HÖPKEN.
"Ulfasa, January 13, 1774. "
E.
FIFTH LETTER OF COUNT A. J. VON HÖPKEN28 TO GENERAL
CHRISTIAN TUXEN.201
"Sir,
"I have had the honour of receiving your letter
dated Elsinore, June 16th. But I am very sorry that I could
only enjoy an hour of the edifying and learned conversation of
Dr. Bastholm, and that I could not shew him more attention
and civility, as he was to continue his journey the next day
through Upsal, without returning to Stockholm . I found him
to be a very rare clergyman, for he spoke reasonably and
without acrimony of all the different opinions which have of
late arisen in matters of religion. He was by no means a
Swedenborgian, for he did not understand his memorable re
lations; and I could wish the happy deceased had left them
out, as they may prevent infidelity from approaching his
doctrines. I represented to him these inconveniences ; but he
said that he was commanded to declare what he had seen in
the other world ; and he related it as a proof that he did not
reveal his own thoughts, but that they came from above. As
for the rest, I find in his system a simplicity and gradation,
and such a spirit as the work of God in nature everywhere
proves and exhibits ; for whatever man creates is complicated,
laboured, and subject to vicissitude. The authors of the
Monthly Review, who every month publish criticisms that are
rather severe, speak of Swedenborg as an extraordinary and
wonderful man, and, without adopting his principles, treat him
with much regard and respect. The sentence said to have
been pronounced on Swedenborg by a committee during the
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