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Doc. 314.] 1057
SWEDENBORG AND ETINGER.
ally those fine gentlemen, the galants esprits who do not under
stand it; scarcely two or three of them understand it, and
least of all Chancellor Reuss. I fear them all as little as I
do will -o’-the-wisps ; I blow them all asunder" (no. 559, p. 679).
1766. (5.) " As you find so much fault with Swedenborg,
because he, as you think, upsets the foundations of religion,
I beg of you to tell or to write to me, which of Swedenborg’s
doctrines, or which of his theses, upset these foundations. Do
you really know what you say? I believe not. He does not
deny the Lord, i. e. God in Christ. He declares that all are
influenced by Him, and that all is due to Him. The blood
of Christ he does not regard as blood, but as the force joined
to glory by which all things are made new. The departed do
not see Christ immediately after death ; it is enough that they
are with Him. If he errs by giving way too much to his
especial gift, then he errs. Therefore let us examine him.
My book is a pure examination" (no. 562, p. 680).
F.
ETINGER TO HARTMANN.*
1768, March 16. (1.) "I cannot send you Swedenborg’s
work [on ’Conjugial Love’]. It consists of mere dreams,
which are mixed up with much of his own, as can scarcely
be otherwise. For who is able to pronounce ineffable things
without alloying them ? As he continually writes something
new, I wrote to him that he should visit me. The internal
and external sense he explains poorly (Document 238, p. 269)
by a parable with a kernel, from which the outer shell is re
moved. He is not acquainted with the points and tittles of
the Hebrew language of which Christ says, ’Whoever shall
* K. F. Hartmann, was a " Repetent," a theological instructor, in the
University of Tübingen when tinger addressed his letters to him. He made
himself known by his labours in connection with the Würtemberg hymn
book. He died in 1815. Etinger’s letters were taken to America by his
son, Prof. Hartmann of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and were kindly
remitted for publication to the editor of " Etinger’s Life and Corespondence."
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