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TESTIMONY COLLECTED IN SWEDEN.
DOCUMENT 249.
A.
BARON TILAS’S 206 TESTIMONY.*
FIRST LETTER OF BARON D. TILAS206 TO A. F. CRONSTEDT.107
Some years ago I had the honour to take
part in a correspondence on magic and mystical philosophy.
We have now got hold of the right man [for this purpose].
A very short time ago (
framför en dag) the whole town was
almost in alarm about it ; and the affair spread surprisingly fast;
for not a breath was heard respecting it before my departure.+
It is Swedenborg, who has intercourse with the dead when
ever he chooses, and who can inquire after his former departed
friends when it pleases him, whether they are in heaven or
hell, or whether they hover about in a third, nondescript place.
He has had many conversations with Senator Ehrenpreuss ;173
likewise with Count Gyllenborg [either Carl of Note 87, or
Frederic of Note 115], about whose condition he gives satis
factory accounts. He called on Baron Horleman in order to
* The two letters containing Baron Tilas’s testimony concerning Sweden
borg were discovered in 1870 by the Editor of these Documents in the
Bergius Collection of letters preserved in the Library of the Royal Aca
demy in Stockholm.
By this statement of Baron Tilas it is proved that before the begin
ning of 1760, no one in Sweden had any knowledge of Swedenborg’s inter
course with the inhabitants of the spiritual world.
This statement of Baron Tilas scarcely agrees with what Swedenborg
himself has stated in his " Spiritual Diary," respecting the spirits of these
men. The passages where he describes their states are enumerated, and
partly quoted, in Notes 173, 87, and 115.
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