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200 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
151. July 9X10. I was in company with the King* and
conversed with him ; and then he went into a room. After
wards I spoke with the Princes, his sons,* with whom I be
came acquainted; they talked among themselves about me. I
said I felt overcome with love and veneration. On taking my
departure I saw that the Queen’s table was laid. I was not
dressed as I ought to have been ; for, as before [see no. 5],
I had hastily taken off my white jacket ; I wished to go upstairs
and put it on again. I was speaking with my father, who
kissed me, because I had reminded him not to swear : mean
while the Queen came up with her suite. This means that
am becoming acquainted with God’s children ; for on the
previous day I had selected for myself other lodgings.
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152. July 14X15. I was speaking with Brita Behm,50+ who,
it seemed to me, had given birth to a son ; yet as Schwede
had been dead a long time, I wondered how this could be.
The child, however, died, and in its stead were the two Rosen
adlers. She took me into a large and costly carriage, of
surpassing magnificence, and conducted me to Count Horn.104
There preparations were made for dinner ; I went away, but
was to come back again. I was flying along and came to a
handsome town which I descried ; yet I perceived that I was
flying wrong, and turned back. -This signifies my work on
the internal senses and the brain [see no. 148], which was
compared to the two sons of Brita Behm.† My being conveyed
in a costly carriage to Count Horn, who was the President
of the College of Chancery and Prime-minister,§ and thence
to another town, means perhaps that my work will be prolonged
to the soul.**
* See Note 161, v. See Note 161, ii.
By the two Rosenadlers are meant Johan Adrian and Carl Albrecht,
the sons of Johan Rosenadler and Eva Schwede, the daughter of Brita
Behm. See Note 51, Volume I.
§ See Note 161, v.
** Swedenborg’s work on the brain, which is mentioned here and in
no. 148, was continued to the Soul. For on pp. 221-223 of Codex 58
(Vol. VI of the photo-lithographed edition of his MSS., pp. 81-83), he
introduces into his treatise on the brain a chapter on the soul; and after
defining the soul on p. 221 as "the universal essence of its body," he
declares on p. 223 (Vol. VI photo-lithographed MSS., p. 83) that "the
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