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620 [Doc. 272.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
2. Madame de Marteville found the lost receipt in April
or May, 1761 .
3. Swedenborg made the remarkable announcement to the
Queen of Sweden towards the close of November, 1761.
The necessity for our instituting this preliminary investi
gation will appear in the succeeding documents.
DOCUMENT 272.
THE RESULT OF PROF. KANT’S 242
INVESTIGATION.
In 1766 Prof. I. Kant published anonymously a work
entitled : "Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume
der Metaphysic " (Dreams of a spirit-seer, explained by dreams
of metaphysics), which has been adverted to above (Documents
233 and 256, F,). In this work he satirises on the one hand
metaphysics and the metaphysicians, as the representatives of
reason, and on the other hand the spirit-seer Schwedenberg
(sic!), as the representative of credulity ; and after relating to
his readers the three extraordinary facts discussed in the
present division of our work, he writes, " Madness and intelligence
have not clearly defined bounds, wherefore I leave it to the
good pleasure of my readers, after perusing the wonderful
account to which I treat them here, to resolve into its elements
for my benefit the ambiguous mixture of reason and credulity
which I offer them in my book."
Soon after the appearance of this volume Charlotte von
Knobloch (afterwards the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel von
Klingsporn), a lady full of an enthusiastic love for knowledge,
who was highly esteemed by Kant, asked him for further
particulars respecting Swedenborg ; her interest in him having
been awakened by a perusal of Kant’s book.
Kant in reply sent her a letter containing the result of
his further investigations into the truth of the extraordinary
facts related in his book respecting Swedenborg. This letter
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