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Doc. 256.] 453
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE.
and merely said, "I have not, indeed, been at the Hague for
six months, and for many years have not thought of anything
in connection with Voltaire. How people will lie ! In respect
to the Bishop of Coimbra, other rational people besides myself
probably doubted the story. A bishop is not so easily hung ;
it is, nevertheless, true, that he is a prisoner, and that I have
spoken respecting him with the late pope." I should have
spoiled everything with him, had I chosen to contradict him
here; and I had to treat him then, as always, like a hypochondriac.
May he relate whatever he believes to be true ; for, in truth,
I know that he is too honest a man deliberately to lie ; and
may he declare himself to be an extraordinary and entirely
new teacher ; if he only would not teach things contradictory
to old truths, which, however, to my great sorrow he fre
quently does.*
19. I asked Mr. Swedenborg about the dogma concerning
the restoration of all things ; but this he denies in toto. The
damned remain damned, and the wicked disposition which
they bring into the spiritual world from the natural world,
not only remains as it has been, but as opportunity is afforded
in the societies to which they belong, and with which their
affections agree, they grow continually worse. They do not
even desire to become blessed, because the privilege is still
accorded to them of following their own inclinations, and of
heaping sins upon sins.
20. If any one desire to have an idea of Swedenborg’s
looks, he will find his portrait in his work entitled, Emanuelis
Swedenborgii Opera philosophica et Mineralia . Tres tomi in
folio, Dresdæ et Lipsic Sumptibus Frederici Hekelii, Biblio
polæ regii. MDCCXXXIV; which portrait, although finished
forty years ago by the skilful engraver Bernigroth, is still
perfectly like him, especially in respect to the eyes, which
have retained their beauty, even in his old age.
21. On the 24th of April of this year [ 1769] he departed
for Paris with the intention of remaining there for some time,
* See Cuno’s ideas about Swedenborg’s writings in section B of his
testimony.
See "Aufzeichnungen," etc., p. 81.
See "Aufzeichnungen," etc., p. 153.
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