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Doc. 272.] 623
KANT’S INVESTIGATION.
friend could not proceed to Stockholm in March or the begin
ning of April, as the navigation between Königsberg and Stock
holm does not open before the middle, and frequently not
before the end, of April.
Further, in 1762 Swedenborg did not proceed to London
in order to publish a book there; but to Amsterdam, where,
during 1763 and 1764, he published the following works : "The
Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Lord, the
Sacred Scripture, a Life in agreement with the Decalogue,
and Faith," and likewise " Angelic Wisdom respecting the
Divine Love and Wisdom, and respecting the Divine Providence. "
He does not seem to have spent the whole of these two
years in Amsterdam, but to have returned to Stockholm in
the latter part of 1762, since we have a letter from him dated
Stockholm, January 6, 1763 (see Document 220). In the
same year, however, he proceeded again to Amsterdam in
June (see Document 282, A, 1) to see through the press
"The Divine Love and Wisdom," and "The Divine Provi
dence," which bear the date of 1764, while the " Doctrine
respecting the Lord," and the others, bear that of 1763.
In August 1764 he returned to Stockholm, where he was
visited soon after by the Librarian Gjörwell (see Document 251
and also 282, A, 3), to whom he said that his last works had
been printed in Amsterdam, although "he had been over to
England, to deliver them to the Royal Society;" not, however,
to print a book there, as he had mentioned to Kant’s friend.
In 1765 Swedenborg proceeded again to Amsterdam for
the purpose of printing there his "Apocalypsis Revelata" (see
Document 282, B, 1 ) ; and on the way thither he became
acquainted with Dr. Beyer at Gottenburg; his first letter to
Dr. Beyer is dated October 1 , 1765. According to Document 223
he left Amsterdam for London in the latter part of April 1766,
and stayed there until the end of August (see Document 227),
yet neither then did he publish there any book, as he had
said he would do to Kant’s friend.
Swedenborg arrived in Stockholm on September 8, 1766
(see Document 230). It seems probable that he remained in
Stockholm during the whole of 1767, leaving there early in
1768, in order to print in Amsterdam his " Conjugial Love,"
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