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Doc. 276. ] ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION. 689
through the Södermalm where Swedenborg lived, and that he
really saw the two statesmen make their way clandestinely
from his house–still this admits of other equally just expla
nations. For instance, suppose they were impelled by a secret
curiosity to learn the answer Swedenborg gave to the Queen,
they having been present when she charged him with the com
mission. We are not acquainted with the private character of
these gentlemen. Should they have been believers in the reality
of Swedenborg’s visions, they might perhaps have desired to
interrogate him on their own account, but might have been un
willing to do so in public : if they did not believe in his visions,
they may have wished to make use of him for some political
intrigue, but without meeting with any success: for the Queen
herself, according to explainer, no. 2, declared among other
things that "Swedenborg was honest enough to refuse to become
a tool in the hands of some persons, who desired to make use
of him and his visions at the time of party-strife."
Such then is the value of Chevalier Beylon’s testimony,
when examined by the rules of evidence.
About the time the explanations of the "Berlinische Monats
schrift " were reprinted in the "Allgemeine Anzeiger," &c.,
the editors of the " Morgenblatt" printed, in no. 107 of their
paper, issued in May, 1809, an article entitled "Contribution
to the Theory of Pneumatology," written by the Rev. C. E.
Gambs of Bremen, late chaplain to the Swedish Embassy in
Paris. In that article the reverend gentleman reviewed Jung
Stilling’s work on Pneumatology, and especially his account of
the Queen’s experience with Swedenborg.* The editors of the
"Morgenblatt," in inserting Gambs’ article, remarked that it
corrected authentically several points in the explanations given
by the "Berlinische Monatsschrift. " Of this article we shall
give our readers the leading facts.
* See Document 275, p. 659.
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