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120 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
to accompany her : that they accordingly went together
into another apartment, where she posted M. de Schwerin
at the door, and advanced towards the farthest extremity
of it with Swedenborg ; who said to her, ’ You took,
madam, your last leave of the Prince of Prussia, your
late august brother, at Charlottenburg, on such a day,
and at such an hour of the afternoon ; as you were passing
afterwards through the long gallery, in the castle of
Charlottenburg, you met him again ; he then took you
by the hand, and led you to such a window, where you
could not be overheard, and then said to you these words :
The queen did not repeat the words, but she
protested to us they were the very same her brother had
pronounced, and that she retained the most perfect recol
lection of them. She added, that she nearly fainted at
the shock she experienced and she called on M. de
Schwerin to answer for the truth of what she had said ;
who, in his laconic style, contented himself with saying,
· All you have said, madam, is perfectly true—at least as
far as I am concerned.’ I ought to add, ( M. Thiebault
continues,) that though the queen laid great stress on the
truth of her recital, she professed herself, at the same time,
incredulous to Swedenborg’s supposed conferences with
the dead. A thousand events (said she,) appear inex
plicable and supernatural to us, who know only the
immediate consequences of them; and men of quick
parts, who are never so well pleased as when they exhibit
something wonderful, take an advantage of this to gain
an extraordinary reputation. Swedenborg was a man of
learning, and of some talent in this way ; but I cannot
imagine by what means he obtained the knowledge of
what had been communicated to no one. However, I
have no faith in his having had a conference with my
brother.’"
·
These philosophical remarks of the queen’s would
deserve introduction in a work which I have often
thought (says the Rev. S. Noble in his able " Appeal in
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