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1036 [Doc. 314.
APPENDIX.
specified in his letter to Swedenborg, he there reduced to six.
The document is as follows:
C.
ETINGER’S DECLARATION TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF WÜRTEMBERG.
"I. The first question is as follows, Whether it is worth
while to expend so much thought on Swedenborg and his
mission? Answer. If any one pay attention to the signs of
the times, he will notice that in the year 1622 John Engel
brecht rose as a prophet in Brunswick. He died, and was
made alive again ; this the Rev. Mr. Jordan saw with his
own eyes ; the angel Gabriel also and other angels conversed
with him personally, as they did with Mary and Zacharias (see
Note 257). No one thought it worth his while at the time to
reflect on this matter. Almost at the same time in the year 1623,
God awakened Princess Antonia of Würtemberg in a similar
manner. She was the sister of Duke Eberhard III, and in
commemoration of this she placed a tablet in the church at
Teinach. The book in which she explains this tablet was to
have been printed under the censorship of the Consistory,
but nobody thought it worth his while to meditate on such
things, although it explains most beautifully the relation of
the fundamental wisdom of Scripture to theology.
"Now Swedenborg arises, and shows us how to improve
the vaunted arts of an earthly philosophy by a heavenly one,
but as this requires too much thought and reflection, he is
passed by unnoticed. He is rejected by the censorship ofthe
learned; yet God has His own ways, by which He opposes
human authority.
"II. Whether it is not opposed to our rule of faith to
believe in an intermediate state between death and the Last
which are connected therewith, based partly on documents from Stock
holm, partly on very important opinions given by various scholars, 1771.
This work was also published under the following title, Schwedische Ur
kunden von dem Assessor Swedenborg, welche auf dem Schwedischen Reichs
tag, den 13ten Juni, 1771, werden zur Entscheidung kommen (Swedish Docu
ments about Assessor Swedenborg, which will be decided by the Swedish
Diet, June 13, 1771), 1771.
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