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CHRISTIAN VON WOLF. 617
in 1745 the Lord appeared to him , and introduced him as to his
spirit into the spiritual world. After this time Swedenborg laid
aside all scientific labours, and devoted himself exclusively to his new
vocation ; moreover, until 1759 he led a most retired life in Sweden,
and it was not known to any one that he was the author of those theolo
gical works which appeared from time to time in London. Unless,
therefore, Linnæus, had evinced after 1760, an interest in spiritual sub
jects, and had visited Swedenborg of his own accord , there was little
probability of their meeting in this life. Swedenborg died in 1772, in
his eighty -fourth year, and Linnæus in 1778, in his seventy -first.
NOTE 17.
NILS CELSIUS.
Nils Celsius, born in 1658, died March 21, 1724 ; he became
professor of mathematics at Upsal in 1719. He was the second of
the family of Celsius who occupied the chair of mathematics at Upsal;
his father Magnus being the first, and his son Anders (see Note 144,)
the most celebrated of them , the third. As appears from Docu
ment 4, p. 21, and also from Document 101, Swedenborg was
invited by the Consistory of the University to become the successor
of Nils Celsius in 1724.
NOTE 18.
CHRISTIAN VON WOLF.
Christian vonWolf, the celebrated German philosopher and professor,
who popularized Leibnitz’s philosophy, and distinguished himself by
the clearness and distinctness of his philosophical definitions, was one
of Swedenborg’s correspondents, as appears from Document 4, p. 22.
He first taught in Leipzig in 1703, but removed thence in 1707 to the
University at Halle, where he greatly distinguished himself by his
philosophical lectures. By these lectures, however, he gave offence
to the pietistic school of theology which at the time prevailed
there, and which succeded in 1723 in banishing him from Halle.
The same year, he was appointed professor in the University of
Marburg ; and in 1740, Frederic II of Prussia, who esteemed him
very highly, re-appointed him to Halle, where he became vice
chancellor of the University, and where he died in 1754. From
his earlier philosophical works it appears that Swedenborg thought
very highly of Wolf; and in a paper dating about the year 1737,
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