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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY D. P. AB INDAGINE. 113
The Swedish Documents mention also another letter,
written by the same person, addressed to a respectable
merchant at Hamburg, dated March 5, 1771 ; in which
he says, amongst other things,
"
"I cannot forbear to tell you something new about
Swedenborg. Last Thursday, I paid him a visit, and
found him, as usual, writing. He told me, ’ that he had
been in conversation that same morning, for three hours,
with the deceased king of Sweden. He had seen him
already on the Wednesday ; but, as he observed that he
was deeply engaged in conversation with the queen, who
is still living, he would not disturb him.’ I allowed him
to continue, but, at length, asked him, how it was possible
for a person, who is still in the land of the living, to be
met with in the world of spirits ? He replied, that it
was not the queen herself, but her spiritus familiaris,
or her familiar spirit.’ I asked him what that might be ?
for I had neither heard from him any thing respecting
appearances of that kind, nor had I read any thing about
them. He then informed me, ’ that every man has
either his good or bad spirit, who is not only constantly
with him, but sometimes a little removed from him , and
appears in the world of spirits. But of this the man
still living knows nothing ; the spirit, however, knows
every thing. This familiar spirit has every thing in
accordance with his companion upon earth ; he has, in
the world of spirits, the same figure, the same coun
tenance, and the same tone of voice, and wears also
similar garments ; in a word, this familiar spirit of the
queen ( said Swedenborg,) appeared exactly as he had so
often seen the queen herself at Stockholm, and had heard
her speak. In order to allay my astonishment, he added,
that Dr. Ernesti,+ of Leipzig, had appeared to him, in
a similar manner, in the world of spirits, and that he
"Every man has his associate spirit ; and every man attracts
to himself a spirit similar to the affection of his will, and hence to
the perception of his understanding." — T. C. R. 380 ; see also
A.C. 5470.
+ See T. C. R. 137, where Swedenborg alludes to this cir
cumstance.
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