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660 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
66
P.
COUNT HÖPKEN’S28 STATEMENT.*
Truthful Account made by the late Queen Dowager" in
Haga, in the year 1744.
"Swedenborg was one day at a court reception. Her Majesty
asked him about different things in the other life, and lastly
whether he had seen, or had talked with her brother, the
Prince Royal of Prussia.246 He answered, No. Her Majesty
then requested him to ask after him, and to give him her
greeting, which Swedenborg promised to do. I doubt whether
the Queen meant anything serious by it. At the next re
ception Swedenborg again appeared at court; and while the
Queen was in the so-called white room, surrounded by her
ladies of honour, he came boldly in, and approached Her
Majesty, who no longer remembered the commission she had
given him a week before. Swedenborg not only greeted her
from her brother, but also gave her his apologies for not having
answered her last letter; he also wished to do so now through
Swedenborg; which he accordingly did. The Queen was greatly
overcome, and said, ’No one, except God, knows this secret.’
"The reason why she never adverted to this before, was,
that she did not wish any one in Sweden to believe that dur
ing a war with Prussia she had carried on a correspondence
in the enemy’s country. The same caution Her Majesty exer
cised during her last visit to Berlin. When she was asked
about this transaction, which had been printed in a German
paper, she did not answer. This circumstance was narrated
in the French translation of ’ Heaven and Hell ’ [see Docu
ment 275, K and L].
"The above was written with his own hand by His Ex
cellency, Count Höpken, February 9, 1784, after he had read
Robsahm’s ’ Life of Swedenborg ’ [Document 5 ], and he desired
this to be appended to it. "
Here a new face of the story is given from which it ap
pears that the commission which the Queen gave to Swedenborg
* See Document 5, no. 53. The first English translation of this Docu
ment was published in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, p. 153.
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