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Doc. 272.] 627
KANT’S LETTER TO KNOBLOCH.
this extraordinary case. I then wrote to this singular man,
and the letter was delivered to him, in Stockholm, by an
English merchant. Information was sent here, that Sweden
borg politely received the letter, and promised to answer it ;
but the answer was omitted. In the meantime I made the
acquaintance of a highly educated English gentleman who
spent the last summer at this place, and whom, relying on
the friendship we had formed, I commissioned, as he was
going to Stockholm, to make particular inquiries respecting
the miraculous gift which Swedenborg is said to possess. In
his first letter, he states, that the most respectable people
in Stockholm declare, that the singular transaction alluded
to happened in the manner you have heard described by
me. He had not then had an interview with Swedenborg, but
hoped soon to embrace the opportunity ; although he found it
difficult to persuade himself that all could be true, which the
most reasonable persons of the city asserted, respecting his
secret communication with the spiritual world. But his suc
ceeding letters were quite of a different purport. He had not
only spoken with Swedenborg himself, but had also visited
him at his house ; and he is now in the greatest astonishment
respecting such a remarkable case. Swedenborg is a reason
able, polite, and open-hearted man : he also is a man of learn
ing; and my friend has promised to send me some of his
writings in a short time. He told this gentleman, without
reserve, that God had accorded to him the remarkable gift
of communicating with departed souls at his pleasure. In
proof of this, he appealed to certain well-known facts. As he
was reminded of my letter, he said that he was aware he had
received it, and that he would already have answered it, had he
not intended to make the whole of this singular affair public be
fore the eyes of the world. He would proceed to London in
the month of May this year, where he would publish a book, in
which an answer to my letter in every point might be met with.
"In order, gracious lady, to give you two proofs, of which
the present existing public is a witness, and the person who
related them to me had the opportunity of investigating them
at the very place where they occurred, I will narrate to you
the two following occurrences."
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