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1138 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
volume (pp. 613-666). His first knowledge of these facts he obtained
in 1762, as is proved by his statement to Madame von Knobloch
(p. 626), which is analyzed on p. 622. In 1766 he wrote his work
entitled, "Dreams of a spirit-seer" (Träume eines Geisterschers), of
which an account is given on p. 620, and in which he satirizes
Swedenborg, and makes sport of his seership. After the appearance
of this book, in order to oblige his friend, Madame von Knobloch,
he had these facts investigated on the spot in Sweden, and the result
of this investigation he communicated to Madame von Knobloch in
a letter dated August 10, 1768, which appeared first in print in
Borowsky’s Life of Kant, published in 1804. In this letter, as there
published, all the dates have been falsified; the letter itself, instead
of 1768, is dated 1758, and all the other dates are altered to suit
the circumstances. The object of this falsification was to produce
the impression that the letter had been written before, instead of
having been written after, the publication of the Träume, &c.; and
that this work, and not Kant’s letter to Madame von Knobloch,
contained his final judgment in respect to Swedenborg. This fal
sification of dates was first exposed by Dr. Im. Tafel, and is abun
dantly proved in Documents 271 and 272.
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg in 1724. After finishing
his studies in the university in 1744, he was private tutor until
1755, when he entered the university of Königsberg in the capacity
of lecturer (Privatdocent) on logic, metaphysics, physics, and mathe
matics. Several times he failed in obtaining the vacant professorship
of his department, and only in 1770 was he appointed ordinary
professor of logic and metaphysics in the university of Königsberg.
In 1781 he published his "Critique of pure reason," which opened
a new era in philosophy. He continued writing supplementary philo
sophical works until 1798, and died in 1804.
NOTE 185.
J. C. DIPPEL.
In Document 233 Etinger wrote to Swedenborg, "The theologians
in the universities condemn you on account of your errors in respect
to the Trinity, Justification, and Redemption, which you explain
according to Dippel’s method." John Conrad Dippel was born in
1673, and studied at first theology, but afterwards medicine and
jurisprudence, because he could not bear the fetters of orthodoxy.
Afterwards he wandered about in Germany and Holland, and lectured
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