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Doc. 274.] 645
THE LOST RECEIPT.
book to mark the place at which he left off; where in fact it
was found, at the page described .’ The Queen replied, that....
she was previously acquainted with the anectode I had related,
and it was one of those that had most excited her astonish
ment, though she had never taken the pains to ascertain the
truth of it."
The Queen afterwards gave to the academicians an account
of her own experience with Swedenborg, which will be found
in Document 275.
Jung-Stilling in Vol. XIII of his " Sämmtliche Schriften"
(Collected Writings), p. 339, communicates the following addi
tional account of this story, which he had derived from a Russian
gentleman. It furnishes some particulars, not previouly known,
of the mode in which Madame de Marteville was led to apply
to Swedenborg ; but otherwise the original facts of the case
are even more disfigured than in Thiébault’s account. In
fact the following narrative in some of its features approaches
very much the usual ghost-stories.
I.
ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR [OSTERMANN].*
Jung says, "I am acquainted with a very distinguished Russian
gentleman, who fills a high office in his country, and at the
same time is a highly enlightened Christian, and altogether a
most excellent man. He related to me, that he knew very well,
and was intimately connected with the Russian ambassador,
who, during Swedenborg’s time, was for many years in Stock
holm.* That ambassador had often been in Swedenborg’s com
pany; he had often seen him in his trances, and had heard
wonderful things from him. The universally known story, how
Swedenborg had helped a certain widow to find a receipt, in
doing which he is said to have acted deceitfully,† took place
in the following manner, which is strictly true :
* Compare Document 5, no. 19 ; where the name of the Russian Ambas
sador in Stockholm, during Swedenborg’s time, is given as Count Ostermann.
This charge was made in the "Berliner Monatsschrift" for 1788, p. 318;
and is disproved in Document 276.
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