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1312 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
Unigenitus. This edict produced great excitement. The conflict
continued to rage through 1757-8-9. How was it to end?
"In 1760, the great question was, What course would the King
pursue? In 1713, his great-grandfather, Louis XIV, had promul
gated the Bull which sought to crush Jansenism. In 1730, Louis XV,
by a royal decree, enforced the same Bull. In 1756. he had again
exerted his sovereign power in favour of the Bull and of the Jesuits .
What did he do in 1760, the year following the event which Sweden
borg narrates ? Nothing at all. The Jesuits found themselves deprived
of the royal support. The hostility against them increased ex
ceedingly. Louis XV either sympathized with it or yielded to it,
and in 1764, he expelled from France the Jesuits whom he had so
much favoured and so often sustained.
"How is this entire change in the conduct of Louis XV to be
accounted for? History gives no sufficient reason. Swedenborg’s
statement of what occurred to Louis XV, in the end of 1759, sug
gests a sufficient reason. It explains what is otherwise inexplicable,
and comes just at the time required to make it account for the fact."
In conclusion Prof. Parsons discusses the phraseology of the
passage in the "Continuation," &c., that " he should not accept it," and
says that the precise meaning of this passage is explained in the
Diarium Spirituale, no. 5980, to which Mr. White refers, where we
read "and exhorted him by various (arguments) that he should cease
or desist from the Bull Unigenitus (Et hortaretur eum variis quod
desisteret a Bulla Unigenita), which Prof. Parsons says "is precisely
what Louis XV did."
The precise meaning of this passage is still more pointedly given
in the third passage to which Mr. White refers, viz. Diarium Spiri
tuale, Appendix I, p. 33, where we read, "and he exhorted him that
he should cease from confirming the Bull Unigenitus" (et hortatus
illum quod desisteret a confirmando Bullam Unigenitus).
VI.
MR. WHITE AND THE "BOOK OF DREAMS."
Mr. White says in Vol. I, p. 197, "The Baron Constant Dirckinck
Holmfeld of Copenhagen has very kindly made for me a translation
into English of the rough and difficult Swedish of ’ The Dreams!
This translation with discreet omissions, has been printed in the
numbers of ’The Dawn’ for 1861-62, a monthly magazine published
by Mr. F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, London . For the help of
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