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658 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
the Queen to obtain a report of the substance of a conversation
which she had had with her brother.
The first of these is Robsahm’s account, which bears the
date of the year 1782.
M.
ROBSAHM’S" ACCOUNT.*
"Swedenborg was once in the presence of a certain high
personage [Queen Louisa Ulrica"], who asked him whether he
could meet her late brother [the Prince of Prussia246] , and
whether he could find what these high personages had said
to one another on a certain matter. Swedenborg promised ;
and he came back a few days afterwards to give the answer,
which he did in the presence of a high gentleman [Senator
von Schwerin247] . The high personage then took Swedenborg
aside to one part of the room, where he told her in private
what she desired to know from the deceased gentleman. The
high personage thereupon became amazed, and said that this
was altogether incomprehensible, inasmuch as no one in the
world knew anything about this, except herself and her de
ceased brother."
The next testimony is from Letocard, the Secretary of the
Dutch embassy, who wrote his account to the Countess von
Schwerin in 1788 (see Document 275, p. 682).
N.
LETOCARD’S ACCOUNT.
"The late Queen of Sweden desired to test Swedenborg’s
supernatural gift of conversing at his good pleasure with the
souls of the departed, and charged him to raise the spirit of
her late brother, the Crown-Prince of Prussia,246 and to de
mand from him a positive answer as to what had been the
subject of the conversation which the Queen had with the
prince alone by himself in the embrasure of a window of
* See Document 5, no. 46.
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