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54 Doc. 6.
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
Paragraphs 16 and 17 we consider as false and erroneous;
our reasons for rejecting them are given in notes 41 and 42.
A complete translation of "Pernety’s Account of Swedenborg "
was published by Dr. Im. Tafel in his German edition of the
“Swedenborg Documents ;” but this account as written by
Pernety was not introduced into the English edition of these
Documents, the editor substituting in its place an article
entitled . by him , “ Anecdotes collected by Mr. Robsahm ,"
which we have discussed in our introduction to the genuine
“ Robsahm Memoirs;" and which we have there stated was
composed partly of “ Pernety’s Account,” and partly of a “ Life
of Swedenborg,” which appeared in the New Jerusalem Maga
zine of 1790.
The " Life of Swedenborg ” which appeared in that Journal
seems to have been compiled by C. B. Wadström,36 who was
one of the editors of the New Jerusalem Magazine, and a friend
of the Nordenskölds. The sources from which he drew in its
preparation are Sandels’ Eulogium , Pernety’s Account, Rob
sahm’s Memoirs, and Hartley’s preface to Heaven and Hell.
Yet much of Pernety’s Account and also of Robsahm’s
Memoirs was left out in that “ Life ;" so that our translation
of “ Pernety’s Account ” is really the first complete one that
has been published in the English language. A portion of
the account from $ 1 to $ 29 was also published by the
Aurora press, about 1800, in a little work entitled, “ Anec
dotes and Observations, with some account of the Life of
Emanuel Swedenborg, to which is prefixed an Eulogium com
posed by Monsieur Sandel, & c.”
The above “Life of Swedenborg” was also translated into
Swedish, and formed a part of a New Church periodical, which,
under the name of "Församlings - Tidning," circulated in
manuscript among the members of the "Society pro Fide et
Charitate," from June 1796 to August 1797. This Society was
a secret Society, which was established after the dissolution
of the Exegetic and Philanthropic Society in 1790, and which
continued to exist in Sweden until about 1835. The Swedish
“ Life of Swedenborg” was enriched with extracts from the
published proceedings at the trial of Drs. Beyer22 and Rosén142
in Gottenburg. A manuscript copy of the “ Församlings
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