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[Doc. 276.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
of her late brother, the august Crown-Prince of Prussia. This
news, it was averred, concerned certain circumstances which
were not known to any other human beings except the Queen
and the Prince. Some persons even stated, that the Queen,
who had asked Swedenborg to interrogate her brother’s spirit
in order to test his supernatural powers, manifested signs of
great terror, when the prophet, who had been invited to the
royal table for the purposes of conversation, communicated
this news to her.
"As the Queen granted me free access to her person,
one day seized the opportunity of asking her concerning the
truth of these reports. She answered smilingly, that she was
fully acquainted with the story itself, as well as with the
reasons of some persons, who endeavoured against her own
better conviction to maintain the reality of this story. The
real state of affairs was as follows :
"She then said that in a conversation with Swedenborg
she had made all sorts of objections to the possibility of his
visions, when he offered to prove their reality by facts. She
then commissioned him to interrogate the spirit of her late
brother concerning the meaning of some expressions he had
used in a conversation with her, which had by chance been
broken off, and which expressions had remained obscure to
her. To facilitate the commission she mentioned to him some
definite circumstances of this conversation, in respect to place
and matter. Swedenborg, she said, left her with the assurance
that sooner or later he would inform her of the success of
his mission; but that he had never done so. She added that
Swedenborg had visibly avoided all occasion for conversing
with her, and twice, when he could not do so, he told her,
that he was unable to get the gentleman, i. e. the spirit of
her late brother, to talk with him. He also intimated, that
it was not in his power at his own pleasure to converse
with spirits , at given times and in a given manner. Years
might elapse, before the gentleman might come and see him.
He was at liberty to invite, but the selection of the guests
did not depend upon himself. The spirits themselves had to
decide whether they would come and see him, and whether any
particular spirit would be willing to come, and at what place
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