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AUGUSTUS NORDENSKÖLD. 639
to account for it — wherefore he no doubt hesitated before altering
it materially.
There are, however, two paragraphs in his account of Swedenborg,
namely 16 and 17, which we consider false and erroneous; yet the
errors seem to have been committed before the account reached
Pernety, as will be shown in Note 42.
NOTE 35 .
AUGUSTUS NORDENSKÖLD.
Augustus Nordensköld, the elder brother of C. F. Nordensköld,20
was born in 1754; he studied in Åbo in Finland, where he became
much interested in chemistry and mineralogy. He afterwards continued
his studies in Stockholm , where he became an auscultant or assistant
in the College of Mines; afterwards he became chief of a mining
district (Bergshauptman) in Finland, and was admitted a member
of the Academy of Sciences. During his stay in Stockholm , about
1773, he became acquainted with the writings of Swedenborg, which
he received enthusiastically. He was looked upon by his brother
Carl Frederic Nordensköld, his friend Carl Berns Wadström ,36 and
other ardent and zealous admirers of Swedenborg as the most
intelligent and profound student of the doctrines of the New Church
at the time; and in a limited sense he deserved their praise. During
a journey abroad in 1780, he found in London in the possession of
Dr. Messiter one of Swedenborg’s MSS., in which he was so much
interested that he had it printed at once at his own expense. This
was the “Coronis; or, Appendix to the True Christian Religion."
On his return to Stockholm he made a careful examination of the
Swedenborg MSS. which were preserved in the Library of the
Academy of Sciences, and most of which were in loose sheets. All these
sheets he had well bound at his own expense; so that the careful
preservation of the Swedenborg MSS. is in a great measure due to
him. The most important works also, such as the " Internal Sense of
the Prophets and Psalms," the Index to the " Apocalypse Revealed ,"
the Index to the " Arcana Cælestia," the “ Doctrine of Charity," the
"Canons," and several other works were copied under his superintend
ence, and some of them were taken by his brother C. F. Nordensköld
to England in 1783, with a view to their publication there.
While, however, taking such a great interest in the writings of
Swedenborg, he unfortunately became impressed with the fixed idea
that he had discovered the secret of making gold. His object in
trying to make gold was, to render both silver and gold so common,
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