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Doc. 256.] 483
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE OF SWEDENBORG.
ready that it cannot be finished before Michaelmas. I will
also tell you the title of the work he has in hand: it is as
follows : True Christian Religion, containing the Universal
Theology of the New Church , predicted by the Lord in
Daniel viii, 1, 3, 14, and in the Apocalypse xxii, 1, 2,’ by
Emanuel Swedenborg, servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I
could not, in my open manner, conceal my astonishment that
he should declare himself on the title-page the servant of the
Lord Jesus Christ. But he replied, ’I have asked, and have
received not only permission, but also an express command.’
You can scarcely believe with what confidence the old gentle
man speaks of his spiritual world, his angels, and of God Him
self. If I were to give you only a summary of our last con
versation, I should fill many pages. He spoke of naturalists
[who ascribe all things to nature], with whom he conversed
recently after their death ; most of these had even been theo
logians, or such as during their life in the body had made
theology their profession. Things were then said which caused
my ears to ring, but which I pass over, in order not to be
too precipitous in my judgment. I am quite willing to confess
that I do not know what to make of him. He remains to
me a riddle which I cannot solve. In 1766 a little work
was published in Königsberg by John James Kanter [sic]
bearing the title: ’Dreams of a spirit-seer explained by dreams
of metaphysics.’ The author is anonymous. In Volume IV
of the ’Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek,’ which is published in
Berlin (p. 281), he is called I. Kant.* But this is a satire
which is directed more against the learned in general than
work was, indeed, comprized in sixty-eight sheets, but had Swedenborg
been able at that time to have completed and subjoined to it the whole of
his appendix, it is more than probable, it would have exactly answered to
the above number. Speaking of this Appendix [known as the Coronis to
the T. C. R.] we beg leave to observe, that what was printed in London
after his decease, is but an incomplete part of it; the truth is, (as we were
informed by Doctor Messiter,2 in whose hands his valuable manuscript
was left,) that nearly one half of the copy had been mislaid and finally lost
at the Doctor’s house."
* The editor of " Sammlung einiger Nachrichten," &c., adds here,
"This is quite right. His name is Immanuel Kant, and last year, viz. 1770,
he became professor of logic and metaphysics in Königsberg. In the third
volume of the ’Greifswalde Neue kritische Nachrichten’ (p. 257) we read
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