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Doc. 292.] 727
SWEDENBORG’S GARDENER-FOLKS.
out his hand to him, and said, ’Do you know, father, Jesper
has been ordained a priest?’ The old man folded his hands,
and said, ’May God grant that this was done in a blessed
hour; Jesper has a difficult office.’ Then this vision disappeared.
Soon another took its place ; and I saw two pictures. In
one of them was a venerable, grave, but mild man, dressed
in a bishop’s garb, and laying his hands upon the curly head
of a boy. The boy looked up with his clear penetrating eyes,
as if he had asked something to which he expected an answer.
There was inspiration in his look. In the other picture there
was a peasant, who went over his field sowing; and at one
end of the field there sat a boy reading a book. But soon
these pictures disappeared, and I saw nothing more."
The father looked smilingly upon his son during this narration,
and at its close he said : "This is a legend from olden times.
If I am not mistaken, you have been at our old homestead, with
Daniel Isaksson, in Sweden, near Fahlun. I know this well,
partly from our family history, as it has been told to me, and
partly from other sources. You see, Alfred, Daniel Isaksson
was an honest miner-half peasant and half miner; he was
joint owner of several blasting furnaces, which were run at
common expense , according to the old mining usage which
gave each of the stockholders the blasting of a certain number
of days. The young farmer who came in and reached out
his hand to the old man was my grandfather, Isak Danielsson,
and Jesper, who became a priest, was his brother Jesper
Swedberg. You saw him afterwards as bishop, and the in
quiring boy at his knees, with the look of inspiration, was
Emanuel Swedenborg. The peasant sowing was again my
grandfather, and the boy who sat at one end of the field was
my father; he also became a priest, and called himself Danielius ,
which I have changed into Danieli."
"We are then of the same stock as the noble seer," said
Alfred.
"Yes, Alfred. When strange thoughts pass through my
soul, and I speak as it were not from my own mind, then I
think to myself, ’
This is in our family.’ There is something
that has not yet been cleared up in the heart of our family,
a sort of family disease. I cannot call it by any other name,
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