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Doc. 256.] CUNO ON SWEDENBORG’S DOCTRINES. 461
get any satisfactory answer from him. He obstinately in
sisted on his own opinion, without answering the doubts which
I raised against it, and the absurdities which result thence.
[The obstinacy was probably more on Cuno’s, than on Sweden
borg’s side.] It is surprising, with what boldness this man
writes books day after day, and still more how his books have
been for years before the public, without a single theologian
taking any notice of them.
5. "Besides, this new teacher, who has no authority to show
for his mission, denies most deliberately before the whole world
the resurrection of the flesh [!] and the last judgment ; [he
does not deny the last judgment] and the whole world keeps
silence. Methinks it is by no means sufficient to look upon
the good and honest Swedenborg simply in the light of a mad
man, and meanwhile give him permission to write and print
as much as he chooses. If ever I made the acquaintance of
an ignorant, and so much the more impudent man, it was the
notorious John Chr. Edelmann,176 who has now been dead for
many years. This man, who was, in comparison with the deep
ly learned and pious Swedenborg, a beastly blasphemer ofthe
Word of God and of the church, raised against himself whole
armies of scholars, by whom he was refuted. A silly fellow
like him was not worthy of such treatment; for he made a
name for himself simply by impudence and foolish arrogance.
And what was the result of all this ? He was infuriated more
and more, so as to spit out more poison and gall, and utter
incendiary language. I am by no means able to defend the
honest Swedenborg. Yet if, eleven years ago, a thorough theo
logian had taken up his work on ’Heaven and Hell,’ if he had
acknowledged all the good that is contained in it, and had
quietly refuted the errors and contradictions contained therein,
and if thereby he had not cured him of his imaginations, he
would at least have compelled him to be more cautious, and
not to flood the world with his manifold writings."
6. Concerning "The New Jerusalem and its heavenly Doc
trine," Cuno says, "In judging of his new heavenly doctrine
* See "Aufzeichnungen," &c., p. 113.
† Ibid., p. 114.
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