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ANDERS SWAB. 671
that they could not make any reply to them. He was so accustomed
to the use of such sarcasms that they flowed spontaneously from his
interiors; he therefore burned with the intention as it were of killing
the souls of others." His fate in the other world is described in the
same passage. See also the "Smaller Diary ," no. 4548; and the
“Larger Diary ," nos. 4851, 5701, 5702, 5900, 5962, 5978, 6028.
NOTE 66.
ANDERS SWAB.
A.
Anders Swab was born in 1681. His father was Anton Swab,
a mining official at Fahlun, and his mother Helena Bergia, sister of
Bishop Swedberg’s second wife. After the death of Helena Bergia,
his father married Christina Arrhusia, who, on the death of her
husband, became the third wife of Bishop Swedberg (see Document 10,
p. 151, and Document 15; see also the footnote on page 83). Anders
Swab studied at Upsal, and became auscultant in the College of
Mines in 1702 ; and master of mines (bergmästare) at Stora Koppar
bergslän in 1714. In 1716, he was appointed assessor in the College
of Mines, and was ennobled in 1719. In 1730, he became councillor
of mines, and died the year following in Stockholm . From 1709 to
1713, he travelled abroad and visited the mining districts of Bohemia ;
he has the reputation of having contributed much towards the develop
ment of the mining interest of Sweden. Anders Swab was married
to Elisabeth Brink (see footnote to Document 62), the widow of
Swedenborg’s younger brother Eliezer. The following testimony is
borne by Swedenborg in his "Spiritual Diary " ( n. 5042 ), in respect to
Swab’s administration in the mining district ofFahlun: “The inhabitants
of this district are more interiorly wicked than those of the others,
but they have been made worse in recent times than they were before.
This has been done by their governor (A. Swab), who has made a
division among the people in this wise : by gains and bribes he allured
them, and all who were on his side he rewarded; he also honoured
them by deed as well as in word. The rest, whoever they may have
been , whether sincere or insincere, he persecuted in every possible
manner; he deprived them of their gains, and calumniated them
himself and through others. In one word, from a feeling of internal
hatred he sowed discord in every community there; and the con
sequence was, that they, among whom sincerity had formerly pre
vailed from an hereditary principle, and who had been interiorly
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