"Most Serene Duke, "I have received and read with pleasure the letter which you addressed to me. I hope that the work which has just been printed under the title True Christian Religion, has reached you during the last few days. If you see fit, I should like you to instruct the learned among the clergy in your duchy to report concerning it; but I pray that such among the learned of your clergy be selected as love the truth and are delighted with it. If they are not in the way of truth, they will not see light in that work, but only shade. What is related of the daughter of the Prince Margrave has no foundation, but has been invented by some gossiping newsmonger; I never heard of it before; but what is reported concerning the brother of the Queen of Sweden is true; yet it should not be regarded as a miracle, but only as a memorable occurrence of the kind related in the above work concerning Luther, Melancthon, and Calvin. For all these are simple testimonies, that I have been introduced by the Lord as to my spirit into the spiritual world, and that I converse with angels and spirits. It is further true that I conversed with the person whose name is mentioned in the journal in question, and six months ago with Stanislaus, King of Poland, which took place in a certain congregation or company in which he was, where no one knew who he was. The delight of his life consisted in desiring to be present incognito in assemblies of spirits and angels, as if he were one of them, and to converse familiarly with them. "Afterwards I saw him transferred into the northern quarter, and I heard that he was placed over some section of Roman Catholicism, whose chief moderator he is. He has also conversed frequently with the Pope who died lately, with whom he dwelt after his death, and to whom he succeeded; he descended also to a congregation or company consisting of Jesuits, over whom he ruled for a month; and afterwards I saw him ascending from them, when it was granted me to speak with him several times. But about the course and state of his life I am not allowed to divulge anything. Concerning the Pope who reigned some thirty or forty years ago, you may see what has been written in my latest work. "I pray you to favor all those things which belong to the honor of God, and I remain, with a mind full of veneration,

"Yours, and c. ["Em. Swedenborg.] ["Amsterdam,] July 13, 1771." * Documents Concerning Swedenborg, Vol. 2, pp. 388-389.