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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY MR. ROBSAHM. 77
happens to me, but what the Lord permits, who never
lays on us a burden more weighty than we are able to
bear.
" Once it was remarkable, that after such a state he
went to bed, and did not rise for several days and nights.
This gave his domestics much uneasiness : they consulted
together, and supposed he was dead, from some great
fright. They intended to break open the door, or to
assemble his friends. At last the man went to the
window, and discovered, to his great joy, that his master
was alive, turning in his bed ; and the next day he rang
his bell. The woman went in, and related her own and
her husband’s uneasiness for him ; he told her with a
cheerful countenance, that he had been very well, and in
want of nothing.
"On arriving at Gottenburg from London, he was
told that his house had been destroyed by the flames, in
the great fire that burnt almost all the south suburbs of
Stockholm, in 1756. No, answered Swedenborg, my
house is not burnt ; the fire only reached to such and
such a part. What he said was true ; and the circum
stance was then of so recent a nature, that he could have
had no particular account of it, either by letter or by any
person. It likewise appears that he had predicted that
such a fire would happen.
One day a prisoner was publicly executed ; Mr.
Robsahm went in the evening to visit Swedenborg, and
asked him, how a malefactor, in the moment of his
execution, finds himself on entering the world of spirits ?
He answered; when he lays his head on the block, he
loses his senses, and that, after the beheading, when the
spirit enters the world of spirits, the prisoner finds him
self alive, tries to make his escape, is in expectation of
death, and in a great fright, as thinking either on the
happiness of heaven, or the miseries of hell in that
moment. At last, such a one is associated with the good
spirits, who discover to him, that he is really departed
from the natural world. And then he is left to the
exercise of his own inclinations, which lead him to the
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