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Doc. 314.] 1035
SWEDENBORG AND ETINGER.
which she affirms the testimony which the Queen of Sweden
has given in respect to the reality of your occurrences.
"Your experiences command more belief than your explana
tions of Scripture. Any one, if he chooses, may accept such
explanations; but no rational man can deny facts which are
firmly supported by testimony. I wish very much that you
yourself would declare that your explanations of the Scripture
are not to command faith to the same extent as your visions
and revelations from heaven. I am thinking of projecting a
book in which I shall prove that God intends through you to
re-establish the ideas of the Fathers of the Church, e. g. of
Tertullian, on the subject of the soul, and its state after death,
removing from these ideas the popish doctrine of purgatory.
Let me know how this strikes you.
"It is possible that during the coming spring some of my
friends will call upon you. Please favour them with your
conversation.
"I am on the point of departing from Stuttgart for my
abbey at Murrhard. Should you wish to write to me, you
will please send your letter by the same opportunity by
which I forward mine, viz. through Councillor , whose
secretary takes charge of my letter to you. Farewell; and
continue to pray for one who honours your name, &c. &c.
"Stuttgart, December 16, 1767.
"P. S. I wrote the above with inflamed eyes, wherefore
you will kindly excuse the hasty writing. "
Whether Swedenborg replied to this letter is not known.
In his autobiography Etinger continues as follows : "I con
sidered it my duty to submit a declaration to the Privy
Council wherein I refuted the incriminations of the Consistory.
This document has been inserted in the book entitled Be
urtheilungen, &c.,* p. 86. " The ten points which Œtinger
* Beurtheilungen der wichtigen Lehre vom Zustand nach dem Tod und
der damit verbundenen Lehren des berühmten Emanuel Swedenborg’s
theils aus Urkunden von Stockholm, theils aus sehr wichtigen Anmerkungen
verschiedener Gelehrten (Examination of the important doctrine respecting
the state after death, and the doctrines of the celebrated Emanuel Swedenborg
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