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790 [Doc. 305.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
when certain things happened there to Swedenborg. A great
many memorabilia which have been introduced into the Arcana
Calestia seem to have been taken from this collection, or placed
in that work, the names of the persons and the dates having
been suppressed. Curious and remarkable things occur there
concerning Elizabeth, Queen of England [?], Queens Christina
and Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden, Peter the Great, Sixtus V,
Charles XII, Louis XIV, Frederic I of Sweden, and very
many private persons.
12. "Among these MSS. there are also the entire MSS.
of the printed works, entitled : Arcana Cœlestia [Codices 8 to
10, 15 to 26, which, however, do not contain the entire MS.
of that work], and Apocalypsis Revelata [not Revelata, but
Explicata ; it is contained in Codices 27 to 35].
"These MSS. seem to be more extensive, at least in respect
to the numbered paragraphs, than the printed works. It there
fore seems to be worth while to collate the two. [Nordensköld,
at that time, does not seem to have been aware of the dis
tinction between the larger work, Apocalypsis Explicata, and
the smaller work, Apocalypsis Revelata.]
"These MSS. were put in boxes in London during the last
illness of the author, and sent to Mr. Lindegren, a merchant,
by whom they were forwarded to Stockholm. There two
bishops, who were Swedenborg’s heirs, desired to throw them
into the fire ; but God provided that this should not take place.
The English clergyman, from whose hand the illustrious author
received the communion before his death, gave an assurance
that he did not know of any other MSS. One, however, re
mained in London in the hands of Dr. Messiter, which was
subsequently printed by the care of Mr. Aug[ustus] N[ordensköld]
under the following title: Coronis seu Appendix ad Veram
Christianam Religionem, in qua agitur de quatuor Ecclesiis in
hac tellure a creatione Mundi, deque illorum periodis et com
municatione. Perhaps a number of others may have been dis
persed in a similar manner; for Swedenborg was an indefatigable
man who worked day and night.
"Doctor Beyer, who had been a constant student of the
works of Swedenborg, compiled a work with the following title :
Index Initialis in omnia opera theologica Swedenborgii, two
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