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38 (Doc. 5.
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
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Councillor of Chancery, Mr. Berch,25 together with several
of my relations. During dinner the chaplain asked Sweden
borg among other things, whether he had seen the Empress
Elizabeth. Swedenborg then asked some one to tell him (for
he always spoke in Swedish, and the conversation was carried
on in French, which was well understood and pretty well
spoken by the chaplain ), “ I have seen her often, and I know
that she is in a very happy state.” This answer brought
tears of joy into the chaplain’s eyes, who said that she had
been good and just. “Yes,” said Swedenborg, “her kind
feeling for her people was made known, after her death, in
the other life; for there it was shown, that she never went
into the council without praying to God, and asking for his
advice and assistance, in order that she might govern well
her country and her people.” This gladdened the chaplain
so much, that he expressed his joyful surprise by silence and
tears.
20. I have two proofs, that Swedenborg was firmly con
vinced that the works in manuscript which he took abroad,
would be printed there. At his departure, the last but
one, before he died in London, I met him in his travelling
carriage, when he was just starting from his house, here
in Stockholm . I asked him how he, who would be soon
eighty years old, could dare to undertake so long a journey,
and whether we should meet again in this world . "Do not
trouble yourself about that,” said he, “if you live, we shall
certainly meet again ; for I shall have to undertake another
journey like this."
21. When he left Sweden for the last time, he came of
his own accord to me at the bank on the day he was to
leave, and gave me a protest against any condemnation
of his writings during his absence; which protest was based
upon the law of Sweden, and in which he stated, that the
House of Priests was not the only judge in matters of reli
gion, inasmuch as theology belonged also to the other Houses.
On this occasion I asked him the same question as before,
viz ., whether I should ever see him again. His answer was
quite tender and touching ; "whether I shall come again, that,”
said he, “I do not yet know ; but of this I can assure you, for
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