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58 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
the God of heaven, that I have been acquainted with this
great man and his writings. I esteem this as the greatest
blessing I ever experienced in this life, and hope I shall
profit by them in working out my salvation."
The following is an account of these personal inter
views :
"A report having been circulated, that the late queen
dowager of Sweden, Louisa Ulrica, had given Assessor
Swedenborg the commission of speaking with her de
ceased brother the Prince of Prussia ; I inquired (says
the General,) of a certain minister,* a nobleman of great
learning, who, for several years past, had honoured me
with his intimate friendship, whether he had heard any
thing of this report, and what kind of person Swedenborg
was, and what character he bore. He answered me, that
the report was not ill-founded ; that it had been com
municated by all the foreign ministers at Stockholm to
their respective courts ; that Swedenborg from his youth
was acknowledged to be one of the most learned men in
Europe, particularly in mineralogy ; but added, at the
same time, that since he had, during the last twenty-seven
years of his life, given himself up to the study of the
ology, it was thought by many, that, as he pretended he
could speak with the dead, his understanding was de
ranged.
" As I lived at Elsineur, I also heard several other
things concerning him ; that he often passed the Sound
in his travels to and from Amsterdam and London ; and in
what manner he had answered his landlord who kept the
sign of Charles the XII., who, on asking him how that
king fared in the other world, replied that he retained the
same sentiments and conduct in the world of spirits as he
did in this world. As also the following anecdote, which
I had from a very respectable friend, who was a witness of
it, viz.: That himself, together with the other officers of
the custom-house at Oresound, had been invited by the
Swedish consul, Mr. Kryger, to dine in the company of
*Senator Count Hôpken, whose testimony we have just adduced.
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