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Doc. 313.] 1017
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
of the Memorable Relations have been preserved and are discussed
in no. 146 of the present Document.
On March 5, 1771 , Cuno writes, "It can easily be seen, that the
numerous calls which he receives, are a great drain on his time ;
and so much the less can I understand, how he, nevertheless,
accomplishes his design, of having printed every week two closely
set up sheets, and of composing ten sheets of MS. without having a
single line in reserve. He says, that his angel dictates to him, and
that he can write fast enough" (Document 256, p. 485).
From this it appears that the second copy which Swedenborg
wrote was not an exact copy of the first, or else he could not have
said to Cuno that "his angel dictated to him." On this subject, see
the footnote to Vol. I, p. 62.
On April 30, 1771, he wrote to Dr. Beyer: "My Universa Theo
logia novi Cæli et Novæ Ecclesiæ will leave the press towards the
close of the month of June ... After the appearance of that book
the Lord our Saviour will operate both mediately and immediately
towards the establishment throughout the whole of Christendom of
a New Church based upon this Theology. The New Heaven, out of
which the New Jerusalem will descend, will very soon be completed
(Rev. xxi, 1-3)." See Document 245 , p. 383.
Finally, under the date of July 2, 1771 , he states that the " True
Christian Religion’ had appeared a few days before" (Document 245,
p. 384). On July 13, 1771 , he seems still to have been in Amster
dam, for he wrote a letter bearing that date to the Landgrave of
Hesse-Darmstadt expressing the hope that "the workwhich has just been
printed under the title of "The True Christian Religion’ had reached
him." He wrote to him also, "If you see fit, I should like you to
instruct the learned among the clergy in your duchy to report
concerning it; but I pray that such among the learned of your
clergy be selected as love the truth and are delighted with it. If
they are not in the way of truth, they will not see light in that
work, but only shade."
Towards the close of the month of July, Swedenborg seems to
have embarked for England, for in his affidavit before the Lord
Mayor of London (
Document 269, C) Shearsmith declared, that "in
the month of July or August, 1771, Swedenborg came to lodge a
second time at his house, and continued to lodge there until his
death, which happened the 29th of March following."
In the Appendix to Vol. XLIV of the "Monthly Review,"
published in 1772, the present work is reviewed to some extent, on
pp. 580-583. The reviewer says, "In our Review for June, 1770,
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