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1022 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
From these data it is satisfactorily established, that the original of
what is known as the "Coronis to the True Christian Religion" was
published in London in 1780 at the expense of A. Nordensköld, and
that he saw it through the press. It is also established that he
discovered a supplement to it, and that, consequently, the note in
Document 310 (Codex 48, no. 6), where this Supplement is described,
was written by A. Nordensköld.
Again, we read in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, in a
footnote on p. 224, "Speaking ofthis Appendix (i. e. the ’Coronis,’ &c.)
we beg leave to observe, that what was printed in London after
Swedenborg’s decease, is but an incomplete part of the same ; the
truth is, (as we were informed by Doctor Messiter, in whose hands
this valuable MS. was left), that nearly one half of the copy had
been mislaid and finally lost at the Doctor’s house." From this then
it follows that this MS. was complete at the time of the Author’s
death, but that a portion of it was lost at Dr. Messiter’s house,
which is very much to be regretted.
B. Chastanier222 says on this subject in his " Tableau Analytique
et Raisonné,
" &c., p. 213 : "We have to observe here, that the
Appendix, from which we have given here an extract, was not pub
lished by the Author himself, but by one of the friends of his
Doctrine, who having heard that the original had been left in
London in the hands of Dr. Messiter,2 made a journey to London
for the express purpose of having it printed. By some accident,
which the Doctor could not explain to us, a portion of the MS. has
been mislaid, and the printed work is incomplete."
The work so far as it is preserved treats, 1. Of the four churches
in general which have existed in this world, and of the stages from
morning to night through which they successively passed, nos. 1—22 ;
2. Of the Adamic or Most Ancient Church, nos. 23-38 ; 3. Of the
Noatic or Ancient Church, nos. 39-45 ; 4. Of the Israelitish and
Jewish Church, nos. 46-60. The portions concerning the Christian
and the New Christian Churches are missing.
Two English translations of this work were issued almost simul
taneously; of which the one was published in London in 1810 under the
auspices of the Rev. M. Sibly;240 and the second, which is preferable,
was published by the Rev. R. Hindmarsh225 in Manchester in 1810.
A German translation appeared as early as 1795, in Bâle, as
a part of the German edition of the "True Christian Religion."
Concerning the relation which the present work holds to the so
called "Supplement," which was discovered by A. Nordensköld, see
the "Summary of the Coronis," no. 148.
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