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GUSTAV CRONHJELM . 669
which he had with him in the spiritual world. In a Memorable
Relation appended to “The Intercourse between the Soul and the
Body” (n. 19), he describes a discussion which he had with the
followers of Aristotle, Descartes, and Leibnitz, at which the authors
of these three systems of philosophy were present. This Memorable
Relation is also inserted in the True Christian Religion " ( n. 696).
In Appendix 1 to the Spiritual Diary” (p. 84), Swedenborg gives
the result of a conversation which he had with Leibnitz on "monads”
or " simple substance," and also on “ pre-established harmony."
NOTE 63.
GUSTAV CRONHJELM .
Gustav Cronhjelm, as Secretary of State, signed the royal warrant
appointing Swedenborg an assessor in the College of Mines (see
Documents 143 and 144). From this it appears that he was the
person of whom Swedenborg writes in Document 67: “ As my enemies
had played too many intrigues with the above-mentioned warrant,
and had couched it in ambiguous terms, I sent it back to His Majesty
with some comments, well knowing on whom I had to depend; when
there was immediately granted me a new one, and likewise a gracious
letter to the College of Mines. My opponent had to sit down at
the King’s own table and write this out in duplicate in two forms;
of which the King selected the best; so that those who had sought
to injure me, were glad to escape with honour and reputation." In
1713, Cronhjelm had been appointed Chancellor of the University of
Lund; partly for this reason, and partly also on account of the
influence which he had with Charles XII, Swedenborg dedicated to
him his little work, Camena Borea, which was published in Greifs
walde in 1715. The first fable in the book also treats of him , yet
it does not seem that Swedenborg thereby propitiated Cronhjelm .
Cronhjelm was born in 1664; in 1688, he became chamberlain to the
Crown-prince ; in 1698, governor of Westmanland; in 1710, he was
marshal of the Diet which met in that year, and in the same year
he was made a senator. In 1712, he was created a count; and in 1719,
he became Chancellor of the University of Upsal and President of Chan
cery, which is equivalent to being prime minister of Sweden. In
consequence of a violent altercation he had with Prince Frederic
of Hesse, the husband of Queen Ulrica Eleonora, he fell into disgrace
at Court, and was obliged to resign the office of prime minister. He
continued, however, to hold the chancellorship of the University until
his death in 1737.
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