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Doc. 6.] 71
PERNETY’S ACCOUNT,
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tentment, which is charming; but after he has conversed
with evil spirits, he looks sad ." *
35. Swedenborg did not study comfort in his journeys; he
travelled without a servant, in an open carriage from Stock
holm to Gottenburg, and thence by sea. Robsahm says, “I
know two sea-captains who have conveyed him to England,
and back. The name of one is Harrison, and of the other,
Brovell. The former told me that Swedenborg lay in bed
during almost the whole of the voyage ; soliloquized much,
and always answered very prudently. When he is in my
ship,’ Harrison added, I always have the most favourable
wind .’ I should like to have him on board always, and would
gladly carry him as a passenger without any charge.’ Brovell
said the same ; and he had taken him from London to Stock
holm in a very few days. When I spoke to Swedenborg
about it, he said, ’I am always very fortunate in my passages
by sea .’ ” +
36. “I met him in his travelling -carriage, when he left
for London the last time but one, and I asked him , how he
who would soon be eighty years old, could venture to undertake
so long a journey ; and I added, "Do you think I shall see
you back here again ?’ Do not trouble yourself about that,’
he said, “if you live we shall certainly see one another again ;
for I have another journey to undertake like this.’ He returned
indeed. When he left Sweden for the last time, he came to
see me the day before his departure. I asked him , whether we
should meet again. He answered with a tender and touching
look : ’I do not know whether I shall return ; but this I know,
that I shall not die before I have finished the printing of my
work entitled : Vera Religio Christiana (True Christian
Religion) ; which is the object of my present journey. But
if we do not meet again in this world, we shall meet again
with the Lord, our good Father, provided we keep his
I
* This last passage does not occur in Robsahm at all; yet it is possible
that Mr. C. F. Nordenskjöld had heard this himself from the gardener’s
wife. Compare Robsahm’s account § 26.
+ Cfr. Robsahm’s account SS 29, 30.
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