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628 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
though they were affected with love for the general welfare and
the neighbour, and as if they loved justice and equity, when yet in
their hearts they despised and ridiculed these things. When leave
was given them to flow into those parts of the body which
corresponded to them in an opposite sense, they caused tooth-ache,
and when they were very near to me, they caused such a severe
pain, that I could hardly bear it; and in proportion as they retreated ,
the pain left me.”
NOTE 27.
THE STATEMENT THAT SWEDENBORG HAD A MISTRESS
CONSIDERED .
The accuracy ofthestatement made inDocument5, No.36, we contest
for the following reasons : First, because it refers to a period in Sweden
borg’s life, when Robsahm was not personally acquainted with him , and
because he relates it as a mere matter of hearsay; further, in Note 19
we furnish a proof that what Robsahm relates of Swedenborg’s earlier
life is not perfectly reliable. Secondly, after the establishment of
the Philanthropic-Exegetic Society (see Note 20 ), in 1786, “Robsahm’s
Memoirs," were brought before that Society for discussion and approval.
For in an abstract of the Proceedings of that body, which is in
possession of the Society of the New Church in Stockholm , the
editor of these documents found two emendations of " Robsahm’s
Memoirs," which have been appended by him as Nos. 53 and 54 to
Robsahm’s account. No. 53 is an emendation of this gentleman’s
account of Swedenborg’s interview with Queen Louisa Ulrica, con
tained in his No. 46 ; and at the close of this amended account is
added, “The above was written with his own hand by His Excellency,
Count Höpken, Feb. 9, 1784, after he had read Robsahm’s Life of
Swedenborg, and he desired this to be appended to the same."
Immediately after this statement of Count Höpken, in the abstract
of the Proceedings of the Philanthropic-Exegetic Society, there comes
our No. 54, which is an emendation of Robsahm’s No. 36. This was
laid before the Society on March 28, 1789. From this amended
account it appears that Swedenborg in his younger years was in
love with Emerentia, the second daughter of Polhem , the Councillor
of Commerce, and that she was promised in marriage to him by her
father; but that when Swedenborg discovered that his love was not
returned, he left the house with a solemn oath, “never more to fix
his affections upon any lady, and still less to enter into any other
engagement of marriage." This vow, as is well known, Swedenborg
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