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DOCUMENT 277.
SWEDENBORG ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE
OF SAXE COBURG SAALFELD. *
1. The following question was written down by Senator,
Count Rudensköld, 255 at the request of a foreign minister:
"Pro Memoria [from the year 1771. ]
"It is hoped that by means of Monsieur de Swedenborg
information may be obtained of what has become of the
Prince of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld, named John William, who
was lost in the year 1745, without any one having the least
knowledge of his fate. Neither his age , nor anything else
respecting his person has been communicated. "
2. The following memorable answer was given by Assessor
Emanuel Swedenborg with his own hand:
"No one can find out anything concerning this, since the
departed themselves do not know in what manner they died
or perished in the world : for death to them is not death, but
an entrance into the other life , and a continuation of the
former. They also fully believe and think that there is no
* This Document was preserved until recently in the celebrated Enge
ström 256 Library in Stockholm. There it was copied by the Royal
Librarian G. E. Klemming, and printed in the appendix to his edition of
-Swedenborg’s Drömmar," p. 73, which was published in 1859. He states
there that the explanatory passages were added by His Excellency, Count
Lars von Engeström. 256 Since the publication of the "Drömmar" this
document, together with several others, has come into the possession of
the Royal Library in Stockholm. Swedenborg’s autograph (no. 2 in the
Document), however, had disappeared from the collection.
This document had been previously published in the "Allmänna Jour
nalen," no. 104, in 1813.
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