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TESSIN’S TESTIMONY.
B.
In the afternoon of June 3, 1760, I visited
Assessor Swedenborg with my brother-in-law,* my sister-in
law, Countess Fersen, and their children. He had now often
seen Countess Sack,§ who favours his books, &c.- I do not
know whether I should call fortunate or unfortunate a weak
minded man who finds enjoyment in his imagination.**
Count Axel Wrede-Sparre, born in 1708, died in 1772 ; the brother of
the Countess Tessin.
The wife of Count Axel Wrede-Sparre was the daughter of Senator
Törnflycht.
The wife of Count Carl Reinhold von Fersen was the step-daughter
of Count Tessin’s sister Ulrica Maria, the second wife of Baron Frederic
Henric Sparre.
§ Countess Sack, who was, it seems, in favour of Swedenborg’s writings,
was the wife of Baron Johan Gabriel Sack, Councillor of Chancery who
died in 1751 ; she was the daughter of Count C. F. Bjelke, and hence was
called Countess Sack; she died in 1778. Countess Tessin was the step
sister of Baron Sack, whence the interest the former took in Countess
Sack.
** It is evident that Count Tessin had not read any of Swedenborg’s
writings, or he would not have called him "weak-minded.”
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