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1090 NOTES TO VOLUME 11.
May 19. In London (Document 209, no. 139).
May 30. He took out in London £ 15 15 (Document 134).
July 23. Received from John Spieker £ 60 (do.)
October 11. Received £ 5 5 (do.)
December 21. Received from Mr. Mackei in London £ 60 (do.)
If now we look for a confirmation of these dates, outside of the
Private Diary for 1743 and 1744, we find from Document 164, D,
that Swedenborg’s leave of absence was granted on June 30, 1743,
and that he continued to attend the meetings of the College of
Mines until July 20; so that it is quite possible he left Stockholm
on July 21, as is reported in Document 207, even though the Secre
tary of the College of Mines does not seem to have been aware of
his having left town until July 25.
From Stockholm he went to the Hague, for there in 1744 were
published Vols. I and II of his Regnum Animale.
The next date is furnished by the Royal Librarian Gjörwell, who
in his "Conversation with Swedenborg" (Document 251, p. 404) reports
that Swedenborg said to him, the "Lord revealed Himself to me in
May, 1744, while I was in London." According to the Private Diary,
no. 137, Swedenborg arrived in London from the Hague on May 5,
old style, 1744; so that there is no discrepancy between the two
dates. He certainly does not record in his Private Diary the Lord’s
appearance to him in London during the month of May ; but as he
made only one entry in his Diary during the month of May, after his
arrival in London, namely, May 20, it is quite possible that what he
related to Gjörwell may have happened on one of the other days in
that month.
The next date we find is in the Adversaria, I, no. 1003, where
we read: "From the middle of April, 1745, I was at the same time
in heaven and with my friends on earth, with the exception of one
month, which fell out while I was engaged in my journey to Sweden,
where I arrived August 19, old style."
That in the middle of April, 1745, Swedenborg was in London,
appears from Note 21 , where it is shown that a circumstance ac
companying the full opening of his spiritual sight in London, as
described in Document 5, no. 15, took place in the middle of April,
1745. "From that day," says Swedenborg in the same place , "I
gave up the study of all worldly science, and laboured in spiritual
things, as the Lord commanded me to write."
Between May, 1744, and April, 1745, were printed Vol. III of
the Regnum Animale, and Parts I and II of "The Worship and
Love of God;" both of which publications are incomplete, and on
their title-pages bear the imprint, London, 1745.
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