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682 THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS. [Doc. 276.
punctuality in the settlement of his accounts, but was unable
to find the silversmith’s receipt, notwithstanding all her searches.
As she was very much importuned by that man she applied to
Mr. Samuel [ Emanuel] de Schwedenborg, who told her that he
would see her again in a few days, and give her an answer.
He kept his word, and said, ’Madame, I have asked the spirit
of your late husband, and he has told me that this receipt is
in the secret drawer of such and such a writing-desk; where
it was really found.
"The same secretary of the embassy communicated to me
the following particulars, which perhaps may amuse you for
a few moments :
"The late Queen of Sweden desired to test Swedenborg’s
supernatural gift of conversing at his pleasure with the souls
of the departed, and told Swedenborg to raise the spirit of
her late brother, the Crown-Prince of Prussia, in order to ask
him for a positive reply on the subject of a conversation which
the Queen had sub rosa with him in the embrasure of a win
dow in the palace of Charlottenburg, in the month of July,
1744. A short time afterwards Swedenborg brought an an
swer to the Queen with which she was perfectly satisfied.
The Queen herself is said to have stated, that she was
thoroughly convinced that no other living soul except her
brother and herself knew anything about this matter.
"The late Mr. Swedenborg was the son of a bishop, and
consequently a nobleman. According to the son’s avowal, his
father was already predisposed for heavenly revelations ; the
son, however, had from his earliest youth contracted the habit
of frequently concentrating all his faculties, and of abstracting
completely all earthly ideas, by, for this purpose , closing his
eyes, and remaining sometimes for twenty-four hours in an
arm -chair, without moving himself. He wrought more wonder
ful things of this kind, than he has received credit for. After
his reputation had been thoroughly established, he was ac
costed one day by a young Swede, who, according to his own
statement, felt himself called to become introduced into fami
liar intercourse with the spirits of the departed. Swedenborg
advised him as a preliminary step to prepare himself by fast
ing and rigid abstinence, as well as by frequent and fervent
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