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DOCUMENT 289.
PROFESSOR SCHERER’S261 ANECDOTE ABOUT
SWEDENBORG.
In Volume IV of his edition of the "Documents concerning
Swedenborg," Dr. Immanuel Tafel communicates the following
letter of a friend, the late Rev. Mr. Moser , clergyman at
Ochsenburg in Würtemberg, addressed to himself: *
"My dear friend,
"Amongst the external proofs for the credibility
of the spiritual revelations of Swedenborg, I do not find in
the writings you have already edited that remarkable prediction
of Swedenborg’s, for the communication of which we are in
debted to the late Dr. Scherer,261 Professor of the French and
English languages in our University [Tübingen] . This prediction
most justly deserves to be placed by the side of those other
remarkable occurrences , such as those relating to Queen
Louisa Ulrica, Madame de Marteville, and the fire in Stock
holm, &c., which are often alleged as proofs of Swedenborg’s
communication with the world of spirits. As the occurrence
in question appears to have escaped your memory, permit me,
that it may be inserted in your magazine, to relate it verba
tim, so as to bring it to your remembrance; at the same time,
I must leave it to your exertions, by further investigations in
Sweden, to establish its truth.
"It was during the period of our studies at the University
[Tübingen], between the years 1818 and 1821 , that it came
* An English translation of this letter, with Dr. Tafel’s remarks, appeared
in the "Intellectual Repository" for 1846, p . 99, whence it was introduced
into the Appendix to the English edition of the Swedenborg Documents.
published in 1855, pp. 67 to 72.
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