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Doc. 255. GENERAL TUXEN’S TESTIMONY. 435
on the part of my wife and myself, to favour us with his com
pany at our house. To this he immediately consented, pulling
off his gown and slippers, putting on clean linen, and dressing
himself as briskly and alertly as a young man of one-and
twenty. He told the captain where he was to be found, if the
wind became favourable, and accompanied me to Elsinore.
11. Here my wife, who was then indisposed, was waiting
to welcome him, and to request him to excuse us if our house
should in any respect fall short of our wishes to entertain him,
adding, that she had for these thirty years past been afflicted
with a violent hysterical disease, which occasioned her much
pain and uneasiness. He very politely kissed her hand, and
answered, Oh dear ! of this we will not speak ; only acquiesce
in the will of God ; it will pass away, and you will again attain
the same health and beauty as when you were fifteen years of
age. I do not recollect what she or I answered to this ; but
I remarked that in answer to us he replied, Yes, in a few
weeks; from which I concluded, that diseases, which have their
foundation in the mind, and are maintained by the infirmities
and pains of the body, do not leave man immediately on the
separation of the body.
12. We then conversed on the various kinds of pain my
wife had suffered. Afterwards he said, among other things,
that for twelve years past he had been afflicted with a very
weak stomach, and during that time had scarcely taken any
other food than coffee and biscuits.
13. I do not recollect on what occasion he told me that
the King had issued a circular letter to all the Consistories
in Sweden, requesting them to send a statement of their
grounds of complaint against Swedenborg’s writings and ex
planations in religion; and that the King the last time he
spoke with him on the subject, familiarly laid his hand on his
shoulder and said, They will not make any reply to me al
though I have demanded their explicit answers.*
14. Nor do I remember on what occasion we were con
versing on certain passages in his writings, when I produced
some of them, and in searching we found the letter which he
* Compare Document 6, no. 37 (Vol. I, p. 72).
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