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1028 [Doc. 314.
APPENDIX.
Murrhard became vacant. Although ten years ago I had
been proposed for the prelacy, I knew that I had enemies ,
wherefore I addressed a frank letter to His Serene Highness,
upon which be sent me two letters in four days, appointing
me prelate. The book appeared afterwards, and as at it
the Consistory became highly incensed, I was obliged to
defend myself. I took my seat among the prelates in the Diet
(Landschaft), and remained in Stuttgart for about a year. At
last I returned to Murrhard, where I cultivated scriptural
philosophy in my leisure, but I was compelled by the Con
sistory to appeal to the Privy Council. The Consistory inter
dicted me from publishing anything either within or without
the country. Whereupon my son, a physician, published under
his name the work entitled Metaphysica et Chemia. Meanwhile
I had written to Baron Swedenborg in Stockholm, who replied
to my letters; the whole correspondence may be seen in Clemm’s
German Theology."
In the work above-mentioned, which was published in 1765,
Etinger did not translate the whole of the Arcana Calestia,
Vol. I ; but only the memorable relations which are premised
and appended to each chapter in that volume. In the preface
he uses the following words: "I herewith present to the exami
nation of the reader something rare, which God has given us
to know in the present times. It is profitable to compare un
usual things with those to which we are accustomed ; but in
doing so it is necessary sometimes to keep back our judgment,
until we are able to take in the whole matter. The infidelity
which is rife now in the world, has induced God to make use
of a celebrated philosopher in order to communicate to us
heavenly information. Mathematics have checked the imagi
nation of this philosopher ; wherefore it will not do to say,
that he reports mere imaginations. Experimental facts (stand
hafte Erfahrungen) are not imaginations. These experiences
are due to the influx of heavenly intelligences by the command
of the Lord. Should any one say, ’
We have Moses and the
Prophets,’ he may read what follows or not, just as he pleases.
Still, a person anxious to improve himself ought not to forego
any opportunity by which he may become acquainted with new
light offered to him by truth. Swedenborg, a distinguished
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