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484 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 256.
against the spirit-seers in particular. I wish very much that
upright men, whom God has placed as watchmen upon the
walls of Zion, had occupied themselves with this man some
time ago. I have read his writings, and proved them impar
tially; but in my opinion dogmas are taught there which
deserve to be examined more thoroughly by upright theologians,
and there are others which ought to have been refuted at the
very beginning."
2. Cuno in a second letter addressed to a prominent mer
chant of Hamburg, dated March 5, 1771 , says as follows :
"I cannot forbear to tell you something quite new about
Swedenborg. Last Thursday I paid him a visit, and as usual
found him writing.
"He told me that the same morning he had been in con
versation with the late King of Sweden,* for three hours in
the spiritual world. He had met him there already on Wed
nesday, thus the day before ; but as he had seen that he was
deeply engaged in conversation with the Queen, who is still
living, I would not disturb him then. I let him talk on, but
at last asked him, how it was possible to meet in the spiri
tual world with a person who is still in the land of the living?
He answered me, ’It was not the Queen herself, but her fami
liar spirit’ (spiritus familiaris). ’What sort of a thing is that?’
I continued ; for of this new kind of appearances I had never
heard from him before, nor had I read about them. He then
informed me that every man has his good or bad spirit, who
is not only constantly near him, but sometimes also with
as follows: "The author of this work who is said to be a Mr. Kant, M. A.
of Königsberg, had his attention directed to the writings of Swedenborg
and his phenomena, and he was induced to institute investigations, the
results of which he now communicates to the world. His work consists of
two parts, a dogmatic and an historical. In the latter he relates the prin
cipal phenomena of Mr. Swedenborg, most of which are known to our
readers, and which perhaps might be augmented by them with additional
ones; and afterwards he gives extracts of the particular sentiments of the
author. In reality, however, he considers simply ’the things heard and
seen,’ without taking into consideration the Arcana Cœlestia, a work filling
eight quarto volumes, and in which is contained an entire hermeneutical
and theological system. We leave it to Mr. Kant, to answer for his judg
ment which sometimes is very severe and bitter," &c.
* Adolphus Frederic (see Note 11), who had died on February 11, 1771.
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