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XX PEEFACE.
all is the task which is imposed on the future biographer of
Swedenborg.
The question of the " Missing Manuscripts" of Swedenborg
naturally came up also in Section XII. Document 309, which
extends from p. 802 to p. 834, is devoted to a description of
the "Missing Manuscripts" and their discovery. In Docu
ment 302 we furnish by request a translation of the Additions
to Swedenborg’s " True Christian Religion," which have lately
come into the possession of the Royal Library in Stockholm.
Another subject which required space in its discussion is
the analysis of the so-called "Book of Dreams, " which we
consider one of the most important documents respecting
Swedenborg that has been preserved, but which requires a
most careful and searching analysis in the light of the sub
sequent inspired writings of the author, in order to enable the
reader to pass a true and righteous judgment respecting it.
The explanatory Notes to the " Book of Dreams" occupy
seventy-two pages.
The charges of immorality and insanity have lately been
brought repeatedly against Swedenborg, e. g. by Dr. H. Mauds
ley in the "Journal of Mental Science" for 1870 ; by A. Fryxell,
the Swedish historian, in his biography of Swedenborg in
cluded in Volume XLIII of his "
Tales from Swedish History, "
in 1875 ; by the Rev. J. W. Chadwick, Brooklyn, the United
States, in the beginning of 1877, and by others. These charges
have been advanced on the authority of Mr. White’s "Life of
Swedenborg." We, therefore, have felt ourselves specially
called upon to expose the contradictory nature of the testi
mony of Mathesius, which Mr. White parades in his "Life,"
and on which Messrs. Maudsley, Fryxell, and Chadwick
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