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DOCUMENT 285.
SWEDENBORG’S WORK ON "THE WORSHIP
AND LOVE OF GOD."
Among the papers and MSS. left by the Society Pro Fide
et Charitate, which existed in Sweden from 1795 till about 1835,
the editor of these documents found in 1869 a letter dated
London, Nov. 1, 1814, which was addressed by a Swedish gentle
man living in London to G. Bilberg (see Note 119), the secretary
of the above-named society. In this letter the following passage
occurs :
"Mr. Tulk233 requests the Society in Stockholm to com
municate to him either directly, or through the writer of the
letter, their ideas about the first work which Swedenborg wrote
after his revelation in 1743, entitled, De Cultu et Amore Dei,
published in 1745. He believes, as does also the Rev. Mr.
Clowes,218 who is the most enlightened man in England in Sweden
borg’s doctrine, and who has translated all his writings into English,
that it contains a genuine description of the creation, especially
as Dr. Beyer frequently quotes it in his ’Index,’ ofwhich Sweden
borg no doubt was aware. Mr. Tulk’s own words on the sub
ject are as follows : ’
Dr. Beyer has included this work in his
references in his ’
Index Initialis. Now we have reason to
think that his Index was made with the knowledge and ap
probation of Swedenborg, and if so, Emanuel Swedenborg must
have known of the insertion of the De Cultu, &c. in the work
by Beyer. We wish therefore that you yourself, or some kind
friend, would inquire of the friends in Stockholm, and discover
if possible Dr. Beyer’s sentiments upon it, which he may possibly
have left in writing or otherwise transmitted orally, as the
decisive opinion of Swedenborg upon it. The De Cultu, &c.,
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