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654 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
rumour which had reached her of his being the subject of
visions. After asking him some questions, more for the pur
pose of deriving sport from his imagination than of obtaining
information from the other world, the princess dismissed him,
after having charged him first with a secret commission touch
ing his intercourse with spirits. After a few days Mr. Schwe
denberg appeared again with a reply of such a nature, that
the princess, according to her own confession, was greatly
astonished ; for his reply was true, and yet no living person
could have given it to him. This narrative is derived from
the report of an ambassador at the Swedish court, to another
ambassador in Copenhagen; besides it agrees with what we
were able to learn by special investigations."
Dr. Clemm published a similar account in his "Einleitung
in die Religion und diegesammte Religion" (Vol. IV, p. 205 et seq.),
Tübingen, 1767 ; only he speaks of the deceased husband, and
not of the deceased brother of a great princess ; wherein he
was certainly mistaken. The truth of Dr. Clemm’s account
was attested in Hamburg, in 1770, by Count Scheffer;136 see
Document 274, p. 637.
I.
DR. CLEMM’S ACCOUNT.
"A great princess commissioned Swedenborg in 1763 [ 1761]
to put a question to her deceased husband [brother] 246 on a
certain subject, concerning which nothing was known by any
one except by the deceased ; if he should bring a correct
answer, she would believe him. It is said that the reply which
he brought back was of such a kind, that she was extremely
surprised at it."
How very anxious every body in Stockholm was to know
the nature of the commission with which Swedenborg had beer
charged by the Queen, appears from the following account
which C. F. Nordensköld 20 received from the wife of Sweden
borg’s Gardener:
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