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46 (Doc. 5.
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
the lady had been to see him, and had told him the circum
stance, and that he promised her that if he should meet
Marteville he would mention it to him. This was done ; and
"the ambassador answered me," said Swedenborg, “ that he
would go home that same evening, and look after it, but I did
not receive any other answer for his widow. I have heard
since, that she discovered the important document; but I have
had no other share in bringing this matter to light
, than what
I have stated ." The general rumour was, that the widow
dreamt that she was speaking with her husband, who told her
where the paper would be found in the place where he used
to put things away (uti dess fordne gömman).
46. Swedenborg was once in the presence of a certain
high personage (Queen Louisa Ulrica"), who asked him whether
he could meet her late brother (Prince of Prussia), and whether
he could find out what these high personages had said to
one another on a certain matter. Swedenborg promised ; and
he came back a few days afterwards to give the answer,
which he did in the presence of a high gentleman. The high
personage then took Swedenborg aside to one part of the room,
where he told her in private what she desired to know from
the deceased gentleman . The high personage thereupon became
amazed, and said that this was altogether incomprehensible ;
inasmuch as no one in the whole world knew anything about
this, except herself and her deceased brother. [See on this
subject § 53.]
47. Swedenborg had ordered for the Diet in Norrköping (1769)
a small box* of his works from England, which in accordance
with the regulations of customs was detained in the custom
house, on account of their containing foreign or heterodox
thoughts on religion. Swedenborg, therefore, asked a clergy
man (Bishop Filenius, see Note 9], one of his influential rela
tives, to get this box released for him, because he desired to
distribute the books among the members of the various Houses
of the Diet. This man assured Swedenborg he would, and on
leaving embraced and kissed him; but when he went up to the
• It contained copies of his work on "Conjugial Love," which had been
printed at Amsterdam , in 1768.
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