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DR. GABRIEL BEYER. 623
NOTE 21.
THE OPENING OF SWEDENBORG’S SPIRITUAL SIGHT.
Swedenborg himself gives the following account of this occurrence
(Document5, No.15) in theAdversaria,Vol. II, nos. 1956, 1957 : "Unclean
spirits of the lowest kind are here discussed, such as those who rule the
lowest or ultimate parts of man, and who excite the lusts that belong
to the body and the blood, and which are called pleasures of the senses,
and such as are merely corporeal. Those unclean spirits who rule
the outermost or the merely bodily parts of man, are called frogs,
by which are understood larger insects, of various forms. Such frogs
once appeared to me, coming out [of me), and indeed manifestly, so
that I saw them crawling before my eyes ; and very soon they became
collected into one, when they assumed the appearance of fire, and
burst with a noise, which when it reached my ears sounded like
crackling; after that the place was cleared. This took place in
London, in the month of April, 1745. It was as if smoke passed
out of my pores, but on the floor there appeared crawling worms,
in great numbers." That this occurrence took place at the time
when Swedenborg’s spiritual sight was opened, appears from the
Adversaria, Vol. I, no . 1003, where he says, “ From the middle of
April, 1745, I was in heaven, while I was at the same time with
my friends upon earth ."
NOTE 22 .
DR. GABRIEL ANDERSSON BEYER.
The following account of Dr. Gabriel Andersson Beyer, of whom
Robsahm says, that “he was the only one among the clergy who
embraced Swedenborg’s explanations of the Scripture" (see Docu
ment 5, no. 18), is taken from the work entitled Nya Kyrkan och
dess inflytande på Theologiens Studium i Sverige (" The New Church
and its influence on the study of theology in Sweden "), Part II,
pp. 12 to 26. In introducing this account the author says : “We
have looked in vain for Beyer’s name in the ’Biographical Diction
ary of Celebrated Swedes.’ That work contains an account, indeed,
of the professor of eloquence, Dr. Johan Rosén, but does not mention
anything about his relation to the New Church. Nay, even in the
“ History of the Bishopric of Gottenburg and its clergymen," by
S. P. and J. G. Bexell, we have found only the name of Beyer,
the year when he received his academical honours, and the year of
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