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Doc. 314. ] 1033
SWEDENBORG AND ŒTINGER.
had been one of my best friends-prevailed upon the Privy
Council, by a special resolution to send me an interdict, that
if Swedenborg should come to me, I was not to receive him.
This order troubled me, wherefore I appealed to His Serene
Highness, who told me that if I had a thousand persecutors,
they should not hurt me."
From this period dates the following letter which Etinger
addressed to Swedenborg, and which is inserted by Ehmann,
in his " Life of Etinger."
B.
ETINGER TO SWEDENBORG.
"The affection I entertain for you threatens to become
lukewarm amid the many reproaches showered upon me ; it
must be refreshed. You can scarcely believe how much I
have still to suffer on your account. The Consistory treats
me in a most violent manner. But as I am placed more
immediately under the Privy Council, and not under the
Consistory, I addressed to the Privy Council a complaint on
account of the illegal confiscation of the book translated by
myself. This consists of the following ten questions and
answers:
"(1) Why I wrote the ’Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy?’
(2) Why I did not submit it to the censorship of the Consistory,
but to that of the Philosophical Faculty in Tübingen ? (3 ) Whether
it is opposed to the symbolical writings to assume an inter
mediate condition between death and the final judgment ?
(4) Whether Swedenborg is a seer of the kind described in
Isa. xxix, 10 ; 1 Kings xxii, 22 ? (5) Why Swedenborg’s writings
are so high in my estimation ? (6) Why the world despises
them? (7) Whether the punishments suffered by adulterers, by
such as are arrogant, &c., are not arrant nonsense, and farces
which violate our sense of truth ? (8) Whether it is allowable
to write so much in detail of matters on which the Sacred
Scripture is either entirely silent, or which it scarcely treats
with a single word, as in Isa. xiv, 15 ? (9) Whether Sweden
borg’s doctrine of an intermediate state after death is not favour
able to the popish dogma respecting purgatory? ( 10) Whether
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