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734 [Doc. 292.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
least I pray and hope that it may be so. But you will remain
with me?"
"Yes, master Assessor, until our death."
"Thank you, my friends ; I knew it would be so. Let
people say what they please about my teachings, but do you
judge them by my life ; if they agree, then all is right; but if
there is the least disagreement between them, then one of the
two must be wrong."
When the little old woman had finished her story, which
she had told after the manner of her people, by constantly
repeating "said the assessor," and "said 1," her eyes were
glistening with emotion, and she added, " God, indeed, must
have forsaken us when He allowed us to go astray so far as
to suspect our own assessor of not being a Christian."
The good old woman took us through the garden, which
was decked in its greatest autumnal splendour, and was loaded
with berries and fruits ; and as we were walking along, with
a side glance at me, she said that the assessor never allowed
children in his garden ; "but sometimes," she added, "he lets
one or the other slip in, but not before he has looked at him,
and has said, ’Let the child pass, he will not take anything
without leave,’ and he has never made any mistake. This he
sees from their eyes."
During this conversation we approached the garden-house
where Swedenborg usually sat in summer, and where he had
most of his visions. It is a square building, after the manner
of those times, with decorations on the roof, and loop-holes
through them. We entered ; there was a room painted green
in oil colours, with a double door in the back-ground, and
over the door a little window with brass fastenings. This door
led into a kind of alcove, which was ornamented with a large
mirror between two book-cases. "It was there , out of this
looking-glass," said the old woman, "where Swedenborg saw
the visions float towards him."
A peculiar, solemn feeling came over my childish heart ;
it seemed to me as if I had been initiated into the mysteries
of the spirit world ; perhaps it was then opened to my inward
senses, and perhaps it was closed when I began to ponder
about it, just as the ray of the sun vanishes when we wish
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