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Doc. 293. ] WAS SWEDENBORG A FREEMASON? 735
to analyze it, and instead of the light there are changing
colours.
Such was Danieli’s account of the only time when he was
able to get any particular information about that extraordinary
man Swedenborg.
DOCUMENT 293.
WAS SWEDENBORG A FREEMASON?
It has been attempted of late to answer this question in
the affirmative, on the strength of the following document which
was communicated to the editor of these "Documents" by Mr.
L. P. Regnell, Clerk of the County Court, a member of the
New Church, and Commander of the Lodge of Freemasons in
Lund :
"In the archives of the chapter in Christianstad, there is
an old book of records, containing the minutes of a Convention
or Lodge held in Wittshöfle, June 5, 1787. King Gustavus III,
and his brother, Duke Charles of Södermanland (Charles XIII),
were present, and the latter presided at the Lodge. Many
brethren from the southern part of Sweden, Stockholm, from
Pomerania, Greifswalde, and Stralsund, were present ; the names
of the officers that assisted at the meeting are also given.
Among other things, the minutes state that the first brother
of the watch, Lieutenant-Colonel and Knight Baltzar Wedemar,
upon this occasion delivered a lecture on Masonry, which was
listened to by all with great attention and interest. In this
lecture he mentioned the writings of Assessor Emanuel Sweden
borg, and spoke of his career as a Freemason ; that he visited
Charles XII in Altenstedt, in order to have the high order of
Masonry introduced into Sweden ; that Mr. Wedemar himself
had visited the Lodge in London, which Swedenborg joined at
the beginning of the year 1706, and that the signature of his
name is in the register of the Lodge, &c. The minutes state
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