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692 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 103.
ADAM LEIJEL.
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Adam Leijel, councillor of mines, was born in 1669. His father,
Henric Leyel, was born at Arbroath in Scotland, and emigrated to
Sweden in 1638. From his father, who had been a successful man of busi
ness, his Adam inherited considerable property. Adam Leijel entered
the College of Mines as an auscultant, and in 1700 became master
of mines (bergmästare) in Öster and Wester Bergslagen. In 1713,
he was made assessor in the College of Mines, and was ennobled in
1717. In 1730, he received the appointment of councillor of mines
(see Document 158), and on his retirement from this office in 1744,
he received the title of governor, but died the same year. For many
years Swedenborg enjoyed almost daily intercourse with Adam Leijel
at the College of Mines, and hence he would naturally be thrown into
his company in the other world. He furnishes a minute account of
him in the "Larger Diary," nos. 4488 and 4495, and in the "Smaller
Diary," nos. 4563, 4564, 4654, and p. 45. In the last passage he
says concerning him : “ During his life in the body, he appeared
in his external form endowed with much talent and prudence, and
one could have concluded otherwise, than that he was in the
enjoyment of sound reason even in respect to spiritual things. It
became manifest, however, that he attributed everything to nature,
because he had led a merely natural life. In the other life he enjoyed
a most excellent perception of truth, whence some thought that he
might be converted; he himself desired also that others should think
so on account of his clear perception. He was told, however, that
life is everything and not perception."
Dr. Kahl in his Narratiunculæ is doubtful whether the passages
in the Diary refer to Adam Leijel, the subject of this note, or to
David Leijel (see Note 124), or to Adam , the son of Jacob Leijel
(see " Anrep," Vol. II, p. 621); still as Swedenborg in all these passages,
except no. 4488, &c., speaks of A. or Ad. Leijel, and as David
Leijel retired from the College of Mines in 1722, before Swedenborg
became actively connected with it, there can be no doubt that in
all these passages he could have meant Adam only and not David
Leijel. Again, Adam Leijel, the son of Henric, was associated with
Swedenborg for twenty years at the College of Mines, while the other
Adam Leijel, the son of Jacob, was a mine-owner near Örebro, and
hence only slightly acquainted with Swedenborg; besides the latter
Adam Leijel died as early as 1729, while the former Adam Leijel
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