"Reverend Doctor:

"I received yesterday your last letter together with one from Dr. Rosen. Previously I had received one from Assessor Queckfelt, from which I was led to infer, that the case would take a new turn, if I presented myself before the Privy Council as a tertius interveniens, yet to do so would do no good, as I distinctly did so a short time before my departure [see close of Document 245, X, p. 376], and supported with weighty arguments the cause itself, as well as your case. I wonder that they keep stirring up this affair at Gottenburg; I will complain of them at the next Diet, when I send over my Universa Theologia Novi Coeli et Nova Ecclesiae,** which will leave the press towards the close of June. I will send two copies of this work to each House, and request them to appoint for its consideration a general committee from all the Houses, in order to put an end to the affair in this way. I am certain of this, that after the appearance of the book referred to, the Lord our Saviour will operate both mediately and immediately towards the establishment throughout the whole of Christendom of a New Church based upon this 'Theology.' The new heaven, out of which the New Jerusalem will descend, will very soon be completed (Rev. 21:1-3). When our adversaries enter the other life, they will have their places assigned to them. I pity them. With my kindest remembrance to Doctor Rosen, I remain, with all affection,

"Your most obedient servant and friend, "Em. Swedenborg." "Amsterdam, April 30, 1771." * Documents Concerning Swedenborg, Vol. 2, pp. 382-383. ** The True Christian Religion.