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Doc. 256. ] CUNO’S LETTER TO SWEDENBORG. 469
should I mention still more ? Our age is either too wise, or
it looks upon religion as a matter of little account.
"Meanwhile sound reason declares that an author is in
duty bound to prove what he writes. In the beginning of one
of your last works you say, ’I am aware that many who read
my memorable relations will believe that they are fictions of
the imagination.’ But you protest that they are not. Yet
no one can be a witness in his own cause, and especially
not in one upon which the welfare of the whole human race
depends.
"Far be it from me to put a limit to the Divine Omnipotence.
And I lay aside all my metaphysics and my psychology in
order not to wrong a venerable old man of eighty years and
upwards, not to injure a righteous, just, and most learned
man, or detract from his merits. I am willing therefore to
grant that it has pleased the Lord to manifest Himself to
you, and to send you to teach new things which have hitherto
been concealed from the church and the whole race of man
kind. Nay, I am willing to admit that it has been granted
to you to be in the spiritual world with angels and at the
same time in the natural world with men, and indeed for
twenty-five years.
"Yet, my dear friend, why do you not convince the in
credulous world of this your legitimate mission? It is your
duty publicly to set forth, with all attendant circumstances
which you can truthfully adduce, your mission, which is such
as has never since the time of the first man been entrusted
to any man; and totally to remove from the minds of your
readers all doubts that may occur to them. If you refuse to
do so, you must not take it amiss, if in the whole world you
do not find a single reader willing to believe you.
"It is stated that you verbally reported from the spiritual
world a conversation, which the Queen of Sweden had at one
time in the natural world with her brothers, the King and
the Prince of Prussia, at Charlottenburg ; and that the Queen,’
who knew that no one was secretly present who could have
related the least word of it, was compelled to acknowledge
that you became acquainted with the most minute circumstances
of this conversation by the relation of her departed brother,
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