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MAJOR GYLLENHAAL. 1279
upon the Lutheran dogmas. These writings display a profound
veneration for the religious teachings of Scripture, a clear insight
into the mysteries of Christianity, and they are characterized by
the same solidity in a theoretical and practical respect, as the writings
of Swedenborg himself, from which they were drawn. His language
is generally pure, and sometimes even brilliant, his mode of presenting
the truths of the New Church simple and unaffected, and accommo
dated to the understanding of the people, and, besides, his teaching
was thoroughly sound and reliable. Several of his smaller writings
fulfilled in Sweden the use which in England is performed by the
so-called ’tracts;’ and the attention of many people was thereby
directed to the New Church."
When Tybeck was suspended from his priestly function he was
in his sixty-sixth year. After that time from 1818 to 1831 he pub
lished no less than twenty-five of these writings ; a full list of which
is contained in the Nya Kyrkan, &c., III, pp. 138 and 139.
Tybeck spent the latter part of his life on his island in Lake
Mälar; and by the assistance of friends both in England and Sweden
he was not without the comforts of life. Among the friends who
stood up for him in Sweden, and furnished him with the means for
publishing his writings were especially C. I. Schönherr, the coun
cillor of commerce, and Major L. Gyllenhaal (for further particulars,
see Note 302).
He died in his eighty-sixth year, on January 28, 1837.
It was Tybeck who furnished to Dr. Kahl in 1818 the account
of Swedenborg’s love for Polhem’s daughter (see Document 5, no. 54,
Vol. I, p. 50), and the truth of this account Tybeck said he was
able fully to affirm (see Dr. Im. Tafel’s Sammlung von Urkunden, &c.
IV. p. 74).
Tybeck’s name is also mentioned in Document 310, Codex 48,
p. 851.
NOTE 303.
MAJOR GYLLENHAAL.
Major Leonard Gyllenhaal, the friend of Johan Tybeck (Note 302),
was a member of the Society pro Fide et Charitate, which succeeded
the Exegetic Philanthropic Society. He had a valuable collection
of documents concerning Swedenborg and copies of some of his MSS.,
which after his death in 1852 came into the hands of Dr. A. Kahl.
Among these is an important copy of the work entitled "Canons,"
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