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DOCUMENT 250.
COUNT TESSIN’S TESTIMONY.*
A.
1. When Polhem,14 the Councillor of Commerce,
was buried, Swedenborg took part in the procession, and re
ported that Polhem had come and was walking beside him,
and that he asked what all this was about ; whereupon Sweden
borg informed him that it was his burial.†
2. Swedenborg perhaps of all visionaries wrote most, and
gave most particulars. His book "De Cœlo et ejus Mirabilibus,
et de Inferno ex auditis et visis" (Heaven and Hell, & c.) con
tains so many novel statements, that it may be read without
making one tired : but it must be read with the same kind of
faith which one places in Mohammed’s Alcoran.‡
3. From mere curiosity, for making the acquaintance of a
singular man, I went to see Assessor Swedenborg in the after
noon of March 5, 1760. He lives far up in Hornsgatan in a
small, neat wooden dwelling on a large plot of ground with a
garden, belonging to him. I found an old man, about seventy
* The Swedish original of this Document is contained in a publication
by Baron Ehrenheim entitled : " Tessin och Tessiniana; Biographie med
Anekdoter och Reflexioner, samlade utur framledne Riks Rådet, Grefve
C. G. Tessins egenhandige Manuscripter" (Tessin and Tessiniana; a bio
graphy with anecdotes and reflections from the late Senator Count
C. G. Tessin’s original manuscripts), Stockholm, 1819, Part A, pp. 355 to
358, and Part B, p. 368. The paragraphs have been numbered by the
Editor for the sake of convenient reference.
For further particulars respecting this circumstance, see the " Smaller
Spiritual Diary," p. 65, as quoted in Note 14, Vol I, p. 614.
From this and some other statements it appears that Count Tessin
was not one of Swedenborg’s followers.
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