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Doc. 255.] GENERAL TUXEN’S TESTIMONY. 431
cularly in mineralogy; but added, at the same time, that since
he had, during the last twenty-seven years of his life, given
himself up to the study of theology, it was thought by many,
that, as he pretended that he could speak with the dead, his
understanding was deranged.
2. As I lived at Elsinore, I also heard several other things
concerning him ; that he often passed the Sound in his travels
to and from Amsterdam and London ; and in what manner he
had answered his landlord who kept the sign of Charles XII,
who, on asking him how that king fared in the other world,
replied that he retained the same sentiments and conduct in
the world of spirits as he had done in this world (see Note 3).
3. I have heard also the following anecdote from a
very respectable friend, who was a witness of it, viz.: That
himself, together with the other officers of the custom-house
at the Sound, had been invited by the Swedish consul,
Mr. Kryger, to dine in the company of Swedenborg, whom
many of the first people in town (also purposely invited) wished
to see and know. All being seated at table, and none of them
taking the liberty of addressing Swedenborg, who was likewise
silent, the Swedish consul thought it incumbent on him to break
silence, for which purpose he took the occasion of the death
of the Danish King, Christian VI [Frederic V ? ],* which had
happened the preceding year, to inquire of Swedenborg, as he
could see and speak with the dead, whether he had also seen
Christian VI [Frederic V ?] since his decease. To this Sweden
borg replied in the affirmative ; adding, that when he saw him
the first time, he was accompanied by a bishop, or some other
prelate, who humbly begged the king’s pardon for the many
errors into which he had led him by his counsels. A son of
the said deceased prelate happened to be present at the table ;
* Gen. Tuxen evidently meant here King Frederic V, the son of Chris
tian VI; for Christian VI died in 1746, fourteen years before it was gene
rally known in Sweden that Swedenborg had intercourse with the inhabitants
of the spiritual world (see Document 249, A, footnote) ; while Frederic V
died January 14, 1766. It must be remembered here that Gen. Tuxen was
seventy-seven years of age, when he wrote his testimony about Swedenborg;
that therefore his memory of dates and persons was then already weakened.
Compare also no. 6, where he speaks of "the lately deceased King Frederic V."
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