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DOCUMENT 314.
SWEDENBORG AND ETINGER.182
While preparing a notice of Etinger’s life and character
for the Notes, the editor came across a large biography of
this remarkable man, written by Ehmann, and published in
Stuttgart in 1859. From this work, which contains also a rich
collection of letters, the biographical notice which appears in
Note 182 is extracted. But as Etinger was a correspondent
of Swedenborg himself, and the first martyr, though an unwilling
one, in the cause of the New Church, some of the new material,
among which is a letter which he addressed to Swedenborg
hitherto unpublished, seemed to deserve a place rather among
the Documents, than among the notes.
Etinger’s acquaintance with the writings of Swedenborg
dates from the year 1762, when the first volume of the Arcana
Coelestia came into his hands. He was then engaged upon a
work, which he subsequently published under the title "Earthly
and Heavenly Philosophy of Swedenborg and others.
" Of this
he himself gives us the following account in his autobiography :
"I wrote the second part of the ’Earthly and Heavenly
Philosophy’ before the gates of eternity, being convinced of
my approaching death. This was to be my last testament.
When I commenced writing it I became tranquil ... On re
covering from my illness Swedenborg’s work [Arcana Cœlestia,
Vol. I came into my hands. This I translated, and made
up from it Part I of my ’Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy,’
which was published in Tübingen after I had received the
censorial permission to do so. Meanwhile the prelacy of
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