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Doc. 291.] 725
SUNDRY ANECDOTES.
"Fryxell relates : ’
My grandmother, Sara Greta Askbom,
who was married to Anders Ekman, councillor of commerce
and burgomaster, had grown up in the neighbourhood of Björn
gårdsgatan in the Södermalm, where her father lived not far
from Swedenborg , with whom he had frequent intercourse.
The pretty maiden, only fifteen or sixteen years old, had often
asked ’Uncle’ Swedenborg to show her a spirit or an angel.
At last he consented, and leading her to a summer-house in
his garden , he placed her before a curtain that had been
lowered, and then said, ’Now you shall see an angel ;’ and as
he spoke, he drew up the curtain, when the maiden beheld her
self reflected in a mirror." "
6. Dr. Kahl was told by a trustworthy gentleman (a fide
digno viro) the following anecdote , which he relates in his
Narratiunculæ, &c.. p. 15 , and also in the " Nya Kyrkan," &c.,
Part II, p. 13:
"One day a certain prelate, Archbishop Troilius,259 whose
greatest pleasure consisted in playing the game of tresett, *
and who had lately lost one of his gambling friends, Erland
Broman,167 met Swedenborg a short time after Broman’s death
in a large company,† where he wished to amuse himself
and the rest of the company at Swedenborg’s expense. He
asked him therefore in a jocular tone, ’By the bye, Assessor,
tell us something about the spirit-world. How does my friend
Broman spend his time there?’ Swedenborg answered instantly,
’
I saw him but a few hours ago shuffling his cards in the
company of the evil one, and he was only wating for your
worship to make up a game of tresett.’ The conversation
between the Archbishop and Swedenborg was thus brought to
a close, and it is not difficult to see which of the two became
the subject of the company’s mirth. ”
A game of cards much played in former times.
+ According to Anrep, Erland Broman died in 1757. From 1757 to 1759
Swedenborg was abroad, and as it appears from Document 249, that the
fact of his having intercourse with spirits was not generally known until
the beginning of 1760, the occurrence related by Dr. Kahl probably took
place in that year.
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