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150 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
1
2. I was in a kitchen-garden (örtegård) containing many
fine beds, one of which I desired to possess ; I looked around,
however, to see if there was a way out, and when it seemed
to me that I saw one, I thought of another. Some one was
there picking away a heap of small (osynlig) vermin, and kill
ing them ; he said that they were bugs which some one had
brought and thrown in, and which infested those who were
there. I did not see them, but I saw some other smaller
vermin which I let fall into a white linen sheet, [and took]
out together with some woman.-This meant the uncleanness
which has to be rooted out of me.
3. I went confidently (
fritt) and boldly down a large stair
case, at the end of which was a ladder. At the bottom was
a hole that went down to a great depth; it was difficult to
cross over to the other side, without falling into the hole. On
the other side were some persons to whom I reached out my
hand to be helped : I awoke. -There is danger of my falling
into the abyss, unless I receive help.
4. I spoke long and familiarly with our Successor in Sweden,*
who was changed into a woman; and afterwards with Carl
Broman [to whom I said], that he ought to be in his favour;
upon which he replied something. Afterwards I spoke with
Erland Broman,167 [and told him] that I had returned here.—
I do not know what this signifies, unless it has something to
do with what follows.
5. I came into a splendid room where I conversed with a
lady who was the governess. She was just on the point of
telling me something, when the queen entered, and passed
through into another room. It seemed to me that she was
the same woman who represented our Successor [see no. 4] ;
upon which I left the room ; for I was rather meanly dressed,
as I had just come off my journey, and wore a long, worn
out over-coat, and was without hat and wig. I was surprised
that she [the queen] deigned to come after me; she informed
me, that some person had given his mistress all his jewels;
* Duke Adolphus Frederic¹¹ of Holstein-Gottorp ; see also Note 159.
See Note 113, Vol. I ; the original has Carl Brokman.
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