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606 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
1731, when Frederic went to Germany to take possession of the
Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel, of which he was heir, Ulrica Eleonora
took a personal interest in the affairs of state. And whatever may
have been the faults of the Queen and her husband, it cannot be
denied that during their long reign of thirty - two years, Sweden
enjoyed rest, which was only interrupted by a short war with Russia
between 1741 and 1743.
Of Ulrica Eleonora, whom most of her subjects looked upon as a
bigot, Swedenborg gives the following account in the " Spiritual Diary:"
“Early in the morning, August 15, 1761, there appeared to me an elegant
carriage, in which there was a man magnificently attired ; soon came a
virgin of a common appearance, like a servant, with some spun threads
in her hand: it was Ulrica Eleonora in that condition, who did not
then know whence and who she was. As the carriage passed by, the
man called to her to step into it, which she was unwilling to do ;
but after some coaxing she complied. The man was from some duchy
in Germany; he had died when young, and like her had studied the
Word, and was fond of the knowledge of spiritual truth. Thus
these two drove away through several societies, and put on states
suitable to them ; they also put on companionable or connubial states,
and were conveyed thence to a magnificent palace.” (No. 6009.)
The state of King Frederic, her former husband, according to
Swedenborg, was quite different. He says respecting him, in the
“ Smaller Diary” (p. 47): “King Frederic was with me on the fifteenth
day after his decease [he died April 5, new style, 1751), and he
heard on the same day that he was being buried; he also saw and
heard few things, as the ringing of the bells. He conversed with
me for several hours, and wondered that, although dead, he should
see and hear these things ; he rejoiced that he still lived ." His
character during his life in the body is described at p. 54 as hav
ing been unchaste and voluptuous, so that he was unwilling to
perform any use whatever, except for himself, and to promote his
impure and voluptuous designs. He was at the same time a dis
sembler and hypocrite. Additional particulars respecting his state
in the other life are contained in the “ Smaller Diary,” pp. 70 and 73 ;
and in the “Larger Diary,” Vol. III, No. 5799.
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