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716 [Doc. 289.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
to our knowledge that the said Professor Scherer had resided,
during Swedenborg’s time, in Stockholm, as secretary or attaché
to an embassy, and that he had probably come to know
Swedenborg personally. We were, consequently, both induced
to visit the Professor, and to ascertain from him what he
had to communicate respecting Swedenborg personally, re
specting remarkable facts recorded of him, and also respect
ing the reception of his doctrines and visions in Sweden.
The Professor, who was greatly advanced in years, then
told us, that ’ in Stockholm, in all companies, very much
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was said concerning the spirit-seer Swedenborg, and wonderful
things were recorded respecting his intercourse with spirits
and angels. But the judgment pronounced concerning him was
various. Some gave full credit to his visions ; other passed
them by as incomprehensible ; and others rejected them as
fanatical; but he himself [ Scherer] had never been able to
believe them. Swedenborg, however, on account of his excellent
character, was universally held in high estimation.’
"Amongst other things Professor Scherer related the fol
lowing remarkable occurrence :-’Swedenborg was one evening
in company in Stockholm, when, after his information about
the world of spirits had been heard with the greatest attention,
they put him to the proof as to the credibility of his extra
ordinary spiritual communications. The test was this:-"He
should state, which of the company would die first. " Sweden
borg did not refuse to answer this question, but after some
time, in which he appeared to be in profound and silent
meditation, he quite openly replied, -" Olof Olofsohn will die
to-morrow morning at forty-five minutes past four o’clock. "
By this predictive declaration, which was pronounced by
Swedenborg with all confidence, the company were placed in
anxious expectation , and a gentleman who was a friend of
Olof Olofsohn, resolved to go on the following morning, at the
time mentioned by Swedenborg, to the house of Olofsohn,
to see whether Swedenborg’s prediction was fulfilled . On
the way thither he met the well-known servant of Olofsohn,
who told him that his master had just then died; a fit of
apoplexy had seized him, and had suddenly put an end to his
life. Upon which the gentleman, through the evidence of the
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