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APPENDIX

IMMANUEL KANT'S LETTER ON SWEDENBORG TO CHARLOTTE VON KNOBLOCH. (...) "I await with longing the book that Swedenborg is about to publish in London. I have made every provision for receiving it as soon as it shall leave the press."

Konigsberg, 10 August, IMMANUEL KANT."

1758? 1761? 1763? 1768?

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Conclusion. (...)


But as our fate in the other world probably depends very much on the manner in which we have conducted our office in the present world, I conclude with the words with which Voltaire, after so many sophistries, lets his honest Candide conclude: " Let us look after our happiness ; go into the garden, and work".

For this reason Swedenborg is the very oracle of the spirits, who are just as curious to view in him the present state of the world, as he is curious to observe in their memory, as in a mirror, the wonders of the spirit- world.

His whole occupation for more than twenty years is, as he himself says, to be in closest intercourse with spirits and deceased souls; to receive news from the other world, and, in exchange, give those who are there tidings from the present; to write big volumes about his discoveries; and to travel at times to London to look after their publication.

PART SECOND,
WHICH IS HISTORICAL.

CHAPTER FIRST.
A STORY, THE TRUTH OF WHICH THE READER IS RECOMMENDED TO INVESTIGATE AS HE LIKES

There lives at Stockholm a certain Mr. Swedenborg, a gentleman of comfortable means and independent position.

FOURTH CHAPTER. THEORETICAL CONCLUSION FROM THE WHOLE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS OF THE FIRST PART


Note. The old Egyptians had as symbol for the soul a butterfly, and the Greek name signifies the same.

THIRD CHAPTER. ANTIKABALA. FRAGMENT OF COMMON PHILOSOPHY AIMING TO ABOLISH COMMUNION WITH THE SPIRIT-WORLD

Aristotle says, somewhere, " When we are awake, we "have a common world, but when we dream, everybody is his own."

Departed souls and pure spirits can indeed never be present to our external senses, nor communicate with matter in any other way than by acting upon the spirit of man, who belongs with them to one great republic.

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and one great cause why mathematicians are generally loath to admit the monads of Leibnitz may be that they cannot help but imagine these monads as little masses.

SECOND CHAPTER. A FRAGMENT OF SECRET PHILOSOPHY AIMING TO ESTABLISH COMMUNION WITH THE SPIRIT-WORLD


This is the reason why the idea of divine eternity assumes even with philosophers the appearance of infinite time, be they never so careful not to mix them up ;

In that case, however, there would remain no peculiar characteristic of the soul by which it could be surely recognized and distinguished from crude elementary matter, and the jocose suggestion of Leibnitz would not be laughable anymore, that in our coffee we swallow, perhaps, atoms which are to become human soul.

CHAPTER FIRST. A COMPLICATED METAPHYSICAL KNOT WHICH CAN BE UNTIED OR CUT ACCORDING TO CHOICE


My soul, therefore, must be a simple substance. (...)


The soul of man has its seat in the brain, and its abode there is indescribably small ;

A PREFACE
WHICH PROMISES VERY LITTLE FOR THE DISCUSSION.


The land of shadows is the paradise of dreamers. Here they find an unlimited country where they may build their houses ad libitum. Hypochondriac vapours, nursery tales, and monastic miracles, provide them with ample building material.

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