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712 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
that he should undertake the duties of Assessor in Swedenborg’s place,
as appears from Document 162. In the same document (p. 453) the
College gives him the following testimony: “ Nils Porath, on account
of his ability and experience in every thing connected with mining
and his long and faithful services, has already twice been proposed
for an Assessorship in the College." In his Spiritual Diary,"
nos. 4701-4703, under the head, Wonderful things respecting the
memory remaining after death (Porath and Cederstedt122), Sweden
borg mentions a number of particulars that were read from the
memory of these two men as from a book ; and which shows in a
remarkable manner how in the other life our sins will find us out.
The particulars respecting Porath related chiefly to various sums of
money, amounting altogether to about forty thousand rix -dalers, of
which he had in various ways deprived two private persons and the
public, and which, when examined, he confessed, besides many other
things, with all their details. “ Afterwards," he says, “ those sums were
recounted which had been accepted by Cederstedt,122 which occupied not
quite an hour’s time; there were from 300 to 400 different sums, which
were all acknowledged by him . And he did so as soon as they were
pointed out, which was done with the minutest particulars. His book
also was read word for word; all that had been put down in one
page, certain sums that he had received, and which he had also
written down. In short, it was astonishing to hear how all these
things were recounted without a mistake in less than an hour. All
who stood by wondered that there should be such a book, from
which all things are revealed and whence they are recalled. He
acknowledged all, because all the circumstances were exhibited .”
NOTE 128.
BARON OLOF CEDERSTRÖM .
As secretary of State from 1728 to 1739, Baron Cederström
dispatched the business connected with Swedenborg’s application for
leave of absence in 1736 (see Document 162, B). He was the son
of Bishop Carlsson of Westerås, mentioned in page 108. He became
a member of the Privy Council or Senate in 1739, and died in 1745.
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