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434 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 255.
8. Some time afterwards I was informed that he had re
turned by way of Gottenburg to Stockholm, and as I had ac
cidentally heard that the Consistory had begun to examine
into a letter written by him to a doctor of divinity at the
College (Dr. Beyer), which was declared by the Dean (Dr. Eke
bom) to be heretical, I endeavoured to obtain the extracts of
the Minutes that were printed, and which were to prove the
doctrine of Swedenborg to be erroneous ; but these extracts
aimed chiefly at blackening the character of Dr. Beyer and a
learned Dr. Rosén. I therefore wrote to Swedenborg, and re
quested him to inform me concerning these transactions, and
received a letter from him in answer, an attested copy of which
is hereunto annexed.*
9. Some time afterwards, I learned that Swedenborg, who
was on his last journey to Amsterdam and London,† had been
detained for four days by a contrary wind on board a Swedish
ship, anchored a few miles from Elsinore. I therefore took a
boat and went off to see him ; on my inquiring whether As
sessor Swedenborg was on board, the captain answered in the
affirmative, bade me welcome, and opened the cabin-door, which,
as soon as I entered, he shut after me.
10. I found the Assessor seated in undress, his elbows on
the table, his hands supporting his face, which was turned
towards the door, his eyes open, and much elevated. I was
so imprudent as immediately to address him, expressing my
happiness at seeing and speaking with him. At this he re
covered himself (for he had really been in a trance or ecstasy,
as his posture evinced), and rising with some confusion, advanced
a few steps from the table in singular and visible uncertainty,
expressed by his countenance and hands, from which, however,
he soon recovered, bidding me welcome, and asking me whence
I came. I answered that, as I had heard he was on board a
Swedish ship lying below the Koll, I was come to invite him
* This letter constitutes Document 245, W (p. 371). In his letter to
the King (p. 374) Swedenborg declares that the first information about
the printed Minutes of the Gottenburg Consistory was received by him
from Gen. Tuxen.
Swedenborg left Stockholm for Amsterdam towards the close of
July 1770 ; see Document 245, Y and AA.
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