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Doc. 276.] 679
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
love of truth alone has induced me to relate, faithfully, a
fact, which has been so often stated with details entirely false ;
and I verify what I have just written with the signature of
my name :
"CHARLES LEONARD STALHAMMAR,
“Captain, and Knight of the order of the Sword.”
D.
L. L. VON BRENKENHOFF253 AND THE "BERLIN
ISCHE MONATSSCHRIFT.”
In the year 1789 appeared at Potsdam a little work en
titled "Paradoxa," Part II, of which the author says that it
"treats not of military matters, but concerns the pseudo
enlighteners."
The whole of this little work is devoted to an exposure
of the pseudo-explanations of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift”
contained in Document 276, A. M. von Brenkenkoff says :
"In the April number of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift" for
the year 1788, pp. 303 to 319, are contained several so-called
explanations of the spiritual experiences of Swedenborg . . .
I am not one of his adherents, and have read only one of
his writings, which, I acknowledge freely, I was unable to
understand ; still in order to expose the nakedness of the
’pseudo-enlighteners,’ who press everything into their service,
no matter how foolish and nonsensical it may be, I subjoin
letters I, II, III, IV, and V, as well in the original
French language, as in a German translation. The authors
of these letters are still living, and those of nos. II, III,
and V, sign their names. Nos. II and V are written by the
Countess von Schwerin, née von Ammon, a sister of Madame
von Mardefeldt [de Marteville], who lives at present in Berlin,
and according to general testimony is a lady possessed of a
vast extent of knowledge, is well versed in the sciences, and
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