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700 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
statement, it can apply only to Elisabeth Stjerncrona, the wife of
Count Frederic Gyllenborg : for Swedenborg, as we have seen above,
called not only her husband, but also her brother, his friends, as
early as 1733; from which it would follow that he was intimately
acquainted with her family; and, besides, we learn from Document 138
that President Gyllenborg had borrowed from Swedenborg a sum
of 20,000 dalers in copper: for the 1200 dalers interest which were
due to Swedenborg from President Gyllenborg, and after his death
from the Countess Gyllenborg, when computed at six per cent interest,
would yield a capital of 20,000 dalers. All this, however, merely
proves that Swedenborg was intimately acquainted with the Countess
Elisabeth Gyllenborg, who departed this life in 1769. Additional
probability, however, is furnished for the truth of this account by
the character of this lady herself, of whom the Swedish " Biografiskt
Lexicon " declares that she was "a lady possessed of eminent qualities
of heart and mind," and had published anonymously a work under
this title: "Mary’s better part, or the one thing needful, containing
instructions and exhortations on the various topics of the Christian
faith, and on our duties and obligations, with contemplations, in the
words of Scripture, for the simple." This work is highly praised by
all who have perused it, and the deeply religious sentiment pervading
the two large quarto volumes, all the teachings of which are drawn
from the letter of the Word of God, and lead to the worship of the
God-Man Messiah, may be supposed to have touched a sympathetic
chord in the heart of him through whom the Lord has revealed to
mankind the spiritual sense of the Sacred Scripture. The whole of
this subject is treated of at some length in a periodical publication
of Madame Ehrenborg’s,110 called "Något Nytt," no . 7, 1864, pp. 35-43,
and 56-66.
NOTE 116.
CARL WILHELM SEELE.
Carl Wilhelm Seele seems to have been a kind of confidential
agent of Swedenborg’s. He is mentioned in Robsahm’s Memoirs,
no. 49, where we learn that Swedenborg frequently went to his house ;
from him also Robsahm learned the particulars contained in no. 48.
of his account. To Seele’s charge Swedenborg entrusted all his
valuables, when he left Sweden for the last time in 1770, as may
be from Document 139 ; he also is recommended by
Mr. Chas. Lindegren, in Document 141 , as a proper person in whose
presence the packages are to be opened, which he had sent from
seen
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