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DOCUMENT 208.
SWEDENBORG’S SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
IN 1743.
INTRODUCTION.
The contents of the Note Book, from which Documents
207-209 are taken, were published in Stockholm, in 1859,
by Mr. G. E. Klemming, the Royal Librarian, under the
following title: " Swedenborg’s Drömmar, 1744, jemte andra
hans anteckningar" (Swedenborg’s Dreams, 1744, with some
other memoranda from his hand) . This publication he de
dicated to Prof. J. F. I. Tafel, of Tübingen, and Dr. J. J.
G. Wilkinson, of London. In the preface he gives the follow
ing account of the note-book:
"A short time ago (October, 1858) the Royal Library ac
quired by purchase the original manuscript which furnishes
the greater part of the contents of this publication. For a
long time it had been in the keeping of R. Scheringsson,
professor and lector at Westerås, who died in 1849 in his
ninetieth year; and it lay forgotten among his literary possessions
for nearly ten years more, when it was offered for sale to the
Royal Library. It was not possible to learn more of its
history.
"The manuscript is an ordinary pocket-book in small octavo,
and bound in parchment with a tuck, having pockets on each
side, according to the custom of the last century. It contains
sixty-nine leaves, some, which probably were blank, having
been torn out; and only fifty-four of these leaves, or to state
it more accurately, a hundred and four pages, contain writing.
The first leaves are taken up with the notes which Sweden
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