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424 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 254.
aid in procuring an interview with a brother lately deceased,
he answered very properly, that the partition-wall between this
and the other world could not be opened without some im
portant cause, and not to gratify mere curiosity. When I come
to Baltimore, sometime this spring, I shall tell you more.
"I am, &c.
"NICHOLAS COLLIN."
DOCUMENT 254.
DR. BEYER’S22 TESTIMONY.
In addition to Dr. Beyer’s testimony concerning Sweden
borg in Document 222, and in A, C, and O of Docu
ment 245, to which we refer the reader, we are able to
add the following letter which the Doctor wrote to C. F. Norden
sköld20 in 1776, and to which we referred in Vol. I, p. 68. In
this letter he gives an independent account of the Lord’s ap
pearance before Swedenborg, at the time when he entered
upon his mission.
"DR. BEYER22 TO C. F. NORDENSKÖLD.20*
"Well-born Sir,
(1) "The desire expressed in your very welcome
letter of the 7th inst., that the writings [of Swedenborg] which
are mentioned therein, should first be made generally access
ible to the public at large by publication [in Swedish], agrees
in every respect with the thoughts and wishes I have enter
* A copy of this letter was discovered by Dr. A. Kahl in 1842 among
the papers of Major Gyllenhaal, a disciple of Swedenborg, who died in
1840. This copy the Doctor kindly presented to the Editor of these docu
ments in 1870. A copy of this letter Dr. Kahl sent in 1842 to Dr. Im. Tafel
who published the Swedish text with a German translation in Part IV of
his "Documents concerning Swedenborg," printed in 1845. The above is
the first English translation of this document.
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