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664 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
T.
SWEDENBORG’S ACCOUNT TO COUNT TESSIN.*9*
"I asked Swedenborg myself about his conversation with
the Queen, respecting her late brother, the Prince of Prussia,246
and was told that Senator Scheffer 136 was present, and witnessed
the Queen’s fright."
Besides, Count Höpken in his own account of this affair
(subdivision P), does not mention his having had any share
in bringing about Swedenborg’s interview with the Queen ; and
his account seems especially written for the purpose of recti
fying that of the Brothers Nordensköld, which had been printed
by Pernety; for he pointedly refers to that publication in his
communication.
Moreover , the statement of the Nordenskölds , that the
Queen had commissioned Swedenborg to report to her the
contents of a letter she had written to her brother, would
not seem to be an absolute test of Swedenborg’s power of
conversing with spirits ; for the Queen could not know what
had become of her letter after it had left her hands, and still
less what had been its fate after the death of her brother.
C. F. Nordensköld himself seems to have recognized the
weakness of the account which he and his brother Augustus
had communicated to Pernety in 1781 ; wherefore in a later
work, on which he was engaged at the time of his death, he
cancelled that part of his story, and substituted for it the
account which the Queen gave to the Academician Thiébault
in 1772, as appears from what follows:
U.
C. F. NORDENSKÖLD’S20 ACCOUNT.†
"Queen Louisa Ulrica, " sister of Frederic II, King
of Prussia, having heard much about Swedenborg, and his
* See Document 250, no. 13.
† The French original of this account is contained in the work entitled,
"Considérations Générales sur le Christianisme Actuel et la Lumière que
M. E. Swedenborg répand sur les Religions," p. 181. For further par
ticulars regarding this work, see Volume I, p. 621.
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