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Doc. 276.] 691
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
"This gentleman learned very soon what had happened
between the Queen and the familiar friend of the spirits, and
also that he had promised within three days to bring a
reply to the Queen. On the evening of the second day
Count Brahe in disguise went to Swedenborg, and after he
had made himself known to him, he addressed him thus:
’Dear Professor, it is no part of my office to investigate
whether you are really able to communicate with heavenly
spirits, or not. But I consider you to be a faithful Swede,
who is interested in the welfare of his country, and the
safety of his king. I therefore consider it my duty to in
form you, that I am acquainted with the contents of the last
letter which the Queen wrote to her brother. If now you
are willing to do a great service to your country and to the
Queen, tell her to-morrow, that the members of the Diet have
read her entire correspondence with her brother, that they
know all the steps she has taken in order to overthrow the
constitution of the country, but that out of love for her hus
band they have hitherto been indulgent and merciful towards
her; should she, however, take any other additional step, it
will result in the death of her husband, and the dethrone
ment of her son.
"This answer, which, it is true, the late Prince of Prussia
could have communicated to the ghost-seer Swedenborg just
as well as Count Brahe, Swedenborg delivered verbally to
the Queen on the following day, and thereby proved his inter
course with the heavenly spirits.
"C. E. GAMBS.
"Formerly chaplain of the Swedish legation in Paris,
at present preacher in the Church of St. Ansgari in Bremen."
The fictitious character of this account is easily esta
blished for at the time the Queen charged Swedenborg
with a commission to her deceased brother, which was at
the close of November, 1761, Count Brahe was not presi
dent of the Swedish Diet; in fact Count Eric Brahe,137
who had been acting President of the Swedish Diet in
1752, was beheaded in 1756 , by order of the Diet, for
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