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Doc. 5.) 47
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
House, it was he who insisted most strongly that the books
should not be released. For this man Swedenborg entertained
afterwards great contempt, and always called him Judas
Iscariot, who betrayed his friend with a kiss. Swedenborg
said that he would have been much better pleased with a
downright refusal, than with a false promise inspiring confidence.
He could not do otherwise than reprove such conduct; for in his
whole life and in all his writings, in agreement with the tenor
of God’s Word he insisted upon truth and honesty among men,
and indeed for the reason, that God has so commanded for
the sake of men’s own happiness among themselves. He said
also, “He who speaks lies, acts them in his life, and this is
an abomination in the sight of God ."
48. During the Diet of 1769 a cunning stratagem was
planned by some members of the House of the Clergy, by
which Swedenborg was to be summoned before a court of
-justice, and after the first examination to be declared a
man who had lost his senses by his speculations in religion,
whom it was most dangerous to leave in freedom , and who
therefore ought to be confined in a lunatic asylum. As soon
as a certain senator, a friend of Swedenborg’s, heard about
this, he wrote him a letter, in which he disclosed the scheme,
and advised him to leave the country.
Swedenborg upon this became very sorrowful, and going
straightway into his garden, fell upon his knees, and in tears
prayed to the Lord, and asked Him what he should do ;
when he received the comforting assurance, that nothing
evil should befall him as was the case ; for his enemies did
not dare to carry out their persecution, when they considered
that he was the head of a family, and related to other in
fluential families, both in the House of Nobles and in the
House of the Clergy.
49. This information I received from Mr. Seele, an agent
here in Stockholm ; to whose house Swedenborg very fre
quently went, and to whom he had told this.
50. I can assure the reader in all truth that these mis
cellaneous statements, which I remember of my intercourse
with this venerable man, are true in every particular, and
that I should not have written them down, if I had not been
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