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Doc. 290.] 717
PROFESSOR ATTERBOM’S ANECDOTE.
death which really occurred [according to the prediction],
was convinced. At the same time this particular circumstance
also attracted attention;-the clock in Olofsohn’s dwelling
apartment stopped at the very minute in which he had expired,
and the hand pointed to the time.’
"This, my dear friend, is the account which, together with
you, if you can remember it, I heard from the mouth of
Professor Scherer himself, and which has sunk sufficiently deeply
into my memory to enable me to pledge myself for the truth
of this narrative."
"This testimony," adds Dr. Im. Tafel, "is so much the
more important, as Professor Scherer not only did not believe
in Swedenborg’s revelations, but, as he [Dr. Im. Tafel] well
remembers, was much opposed to them, and also endeavoured
to influence both him and Moser against them. Whether
Professor Scherer himself was present in the company alluded
to, they know not; he could, however, have examined there
and then all things respecting the occurrence, and as far as
Dr. Im. Tafel remembers , the Professor had spoken with
Swedenborg himself [about it]."
DOCUMENT 290.
PROFESSOR ATTERBOM’S262 ANECDOTE
RESPECTING SWEDENBORG.
In the first volume of a work entitled, Siare och Skalder
(Seers and Poets), which contains a long essay upon Sweden
borg, Prof. Atterbom says as follows : *
"We cannot refrain from relating one anecdote respecting
Swedenborg’s faculty of seeing spirits, since none of those
which have hitherto been known, described in so naïve a manner
the mode peculiar to himself, and which has not yet been
* See "Siare och Skalder," Second Edition, Örebro, 1862, Vol. I, pp. 52-54.
A German translation of this anecdote was printed by Dr. Im. Tafel in
Vol. IV of his "Swedenborg Documents," pp. 337 to 341.
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