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1164 NOTES TO VOLUME 11.
writings, which bear the following titles: "Theobald, or the fanatics,"
of which three editions were published ; "Nostalgia" (Heimweh); and
especially his "Theory of Pneumatology" (Theorie der Geisterkunde),
which was translated into English; and his "Scenes from the
spiritual world" (Scenen aus dem Geisterreiche), published in 1803.
In his "Pneumatology" he relates in respect to Swedenborg the "three
extraordinary facts," which are discussed in Section X, Subdivision E
(pp. 613 to 666). Stilling’s account of the "Conflagration in Stock
holm" contained in Document 273, B, p. 630 ; his account of the
"Lost Receipt," is identical with that of Dr. Clemm, on p. 637, but
a second account derived from the Russian Ambassador Ostermann
is given in Vol. XIII of his "Collected Writings" (Sämmtliche
Schriften); see Document 274, p. 645. Stilling’s account of the
"Queen’s Story," is given in Document 275, 0, p. 659. In addition
to these he furnishes a fourth proof of Swedenborg’s communication
with spirits in his "Pneumatology" (see Document 257, A, p. 486),
and a fifth in his "Memorandum-book" (Taschenbuch) for 1809
(Document 257, B, p. 489).
In his "Memorandum Book" for 1809 Jung-Stilling defines Sweden
borg’s state as one of somnambulism ; he denies therefore that his
spiritual sight was opened, and maintains that he was in a state of
ecstasy, and that he received all his communications from spirits
who spoke through him. He describes Swedenborg’s state as a
sort of nervous disease, and thinks that he ought to have resisted
his communications with the other world. Stilling, therefore, classes
Swedenborg among the soothsayers, and declares that his communi
cations with the other world were illicit, and in violation of
God’s Word.
The allegation that he was in a state of somnambulism, and
possessed by spirits, Swedenborg himself denies most strenuously; as
for instance in his conversation with Gjörwell (
Document 251 , no. 7),
where he says : "All this I see and know without becoming the sub
ject of any visions, and without being a fanatic; but when I am
alone, my soul is as it were out of the body, and in the other
world; in all respects I am in a visible manner there, as I am here."
The charge of somnambulism and mediumship which Jung- Stilling
brings here against Swedenborg is most minutely investigated and
refuted by Dr. Im. Tafel in his "Documents respecting Swedenborg,"
German edition Vol. IV, pp. 95-118.
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