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972 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
publication as imprinted upon the separate volumes of the work ;
for Vol. I, according to the statement on the title-page, was published
in 1749, Vol. II in 1750, Vol. III in 1751 , Vol. IV in 1752,
Vol. V in 1753, Vol. VI likewise in 1753, Vol. VII in 1754, and
Vol. VIII in 1756. Swedenborg, therefore, by declaring that the
publication of the Arcana Cœlestia extended from 1747 to 1758,
desired to show not that Vol. I was printed in 1747, and Vol. VIII
in 1758, but that during the whole of this time he was engaged on
this work in some form or other.
On July 17, 1747, as we see from Document 167, B, he took
leave of his former colleagues at the College of Mines, in order
"as soon as possible to commence his new journeys abroad." From
Stockholm he did not depart for England, as is commonly supposed,
but for Holland, where he stayed until the beginning of October,
1748. That he was in Holland during November, 1747, and
January, 1748, is proved by an apparently trifling annotation of
household expenses contained in Document 136, G, p. 386, where
the money expended is put down in "guilders" and "styfers," which
are Dutch coins. Besides, in the same Document, subdivision B,
p. 384, which contains a letter addressed to his banker, Hultman ,
in Stockholm, he acknowledges the receipt of the statement of
account for 1747, and instructs him to forward his letters to the
care of Messrs. Grill, a mercantile firm in Amsterdam (see Note 112).
In Holland Swedenborg in the first place finished his Index Biblicus,
i. e. the Concordance of the Old and New Testaments (nos. 91 and 92),
which he needed for the preparation of the Arcana Cœlestia ; and,
besides, he was most intensely occupied with a thorough exploration
of the spiritual world, and the life which spirits and angels lead
there. This is proved by the fact that the memorabilia which he
wrote during his stay in Holland from August, 1747, to October,
1748, fill 989 pages in Dr. Im. Tafel’s edition of the "Spiritual Diary."
That Swedenborg left Holland for England in October, 1748,
is proved by nos. 3423 to 3427 in the " Spiritual Diary" (Memora
bilia, Part II,) where he remarks that they were written "on the
journey" (in via), i. e. while he was journeying from Holland to
England. These entries are preceded and followed by others written
on October 2, 1748. From Document 136 we learn, however, that
he took lodgings in England on November 23, 1748 ; for he states
there that on that day "he took lodgings at six shillings a week
for half a year." As "shillings" are English coin, he must have
taken lodgings then in London, whither he went to have Vol. I of
the Arcana Coelestia printed.
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