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396 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc
. 249.
get from him the plan for some building,* and he found him
taking a walk in his garden. For Broman [Erland¹67] he looked
for a long time in heaven and on earth, and also in hell, and
found him at last in loco tertio (a third place). Queen Ulrica
Eleonora is doing well [see Note 4] ; she is now married to
another noble gentleman, and lives in a state of happiness. I
am all in a flutter before conversing with him and hearing
whom my late wife, Hedwig Reuterholm,† has married ; I should
not like it, forsooth, if she had become sultaness.
All this he reports without a screw seeming to be loose
in the clock-work in any other respect. He has also written
a book upon communication with spirits, which has been printed
in England; I have not yet seen it. Nor would I have lent
any credence to all this stuff, had I not heard it yesterday
from Count Tessin’s own mouth [see Note 39 ; and also Docu
ment 250, p. 398]. He assured me that in the other world
one amuses oneself with such things as bear a likeness to our
affairs in this world ; and for this reason Swedenborg promised
that Count Tessin should one day sit again in the Privy Coun
cil ; but the Count answered him smiling, that he had so much
of this in the world below, that he did not desire anything
but rest above [see Document 250, p. 400].
I wish you were here, that we might go to him together,
but in that case I should have to caution you first with "risum
teneatis, amici" (restrain your laughter, my friends).
[DANIEL TILAS.206]
Stockholm, March 16, 1760.
* Baron Carl Hårleman was the one who finished the building of the
Royal Castle in Stockholm ; see Note 96.
Baron Tilas was married twice ; his first wife, Hedwig Reuterholm,
who died in childbed in 1741, was the daughter of Baron N. E. Reuter
holm. Her oldest brother Esbjörn Christian is mentioned by Swedenborg
in Document 207, p. 132 ; see respecting him Note 156.
Baron Tilas probably means the treatise on "Heaven and Hell,” which
was printed in London, in 1757.
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