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TESTIMONY OF CAPTAIN DE STAHLHAMMER. 97
*•
My wife desires her respects to you. I am with all high consideration your
devoted servant, &c."
XV.
TESTIMONY
OF
CAPTAIN DE STAHLHAMMER,
RESPECTING SWEDENBORG’S INTERCOURSE WITH THE
SPIRITUAL WORLD.
This gentleman declares that his account " can be attested by many persons of dis-
tinction, who were present, and are still alive." The letter is as follows :
—
« Stockholm, May 1 3, 1788.
" I have read, with astonishment, the letter giving an account of the conver-
sation which the famous Swedenborg had with the queen Louisa Ulrica ; the
circumstances related in that letter are altogether false ; and I hope the author
will excuse me, if, by a faithful account, which can be attested by many per-
sons of distinction, who were present, and are still alive, I convince him how
much he has been deceived.
"In 1758, a short time after the death of the Prince of Prussia, Swedenborg
came to court, where he was in the habit of attending regularly. As soon as
he was perceived by the queen, she said to him, ’ Well, Mr. Assessor, have you
s’een my brother ?’ Swedenborg answered, No ; whereupon she replied, ’ If you
should see him, remember me to him.’ In saying this, she did but jest, and
had no thought of asking him any information about her brother. Eight days
afterwards, and not four-and-twenty hours, nor yet a particular audience, Swe-
denborg came again to court, but so early that the queen had not left her apart-
ment called the white room, where she was conversing with her maids of honor
and other ladies of the court. Swedenborg did not wait for the queen’s coming
out, but entered directly into her apartment, and whispered in her ear. The
queen, struck with astonishment, was taken ill, and did not recover herself for
some time. After she was come to herself, she said to those about her, ’ There
is only God and my brother who can know what he has just told me.’’ She ov/ned that
he had spoken of her last correspondence with the prince, the subject of which
was known to themselves alone.
" I cannot explain how Swedenborg came to the knowledge of this secret;
but this I can assert, upon my honor, that neither Count Hdpken, as the author
of the letter falsely states, nor any other person, had intercepted the queen’s
letters ; the senate then permitting her to write to her brother without the least
interruption, regarding her correspondence with him as a thing quite indifferent
to the state.
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