MAN THE GOAL OF CREATION

196. Prodromus Philosophiae ratiocinantis de Infinito et causa finali Creationis . . . (Outlines of a philosophical argument on the Infinite, and the final cause of Creation and on the mechanism of the operation of Soul and Body), Dresden and Leipzig, 1734. Translated by James John Garth Wilkinson, London, 1847.

197. See Psychologica, Philadelphia, 1923, translator's Preface, p. xiv. 

198. NP, 1930, pp. 195-9.

199. Principia, Part I, Chapters v to vii. 

200. Psychologica, p. 52.

201. Mechanism of the Soul and Body, no. 24, in SPT II, p. 13 ff.

202. Faith in Christ in PST, p. 3-4.

203. As in note 201, nos. 12, 24, 29.

JOURNEY TO HOLLAND, FRANCE AND ITALY

204. J. Unge to Swedenborg. See L, pp. 477-8.

205. See L, p. 478 ff.

206. Tafel, II, 76.

207. Tafel, II, 86.

208. Referred to in the record of a dream on October 26-7, 1744. See JD, p. 101.

209. Corpuscular Philosophy in Brief, in SPT, II, p. 60.

210. EAK, 19; SD 2951.

211. The Word Explained, no. 6905; SD 3464; EAK II, 42. See The Cerebrum, Philadelphia, 1938, translator's preface, p. xxvi. (See IWE, pp. 28-9.)

212. Journal of Travel, Tafel, II, 89 ff.
De Cerebro ("The Venice Work," 1738). See translator's preface, p. xviii ff. Published by Dr. Alfred Acton in English, in 1938, thus two hundred years after its composition. This authority calls it "The Venice Work" since it was written during the author's stay in Venice. This was not the work Swedenborg had set out to write and the implication is that his plan was changed by his studies in Paris in the school of surgery. The first volume of The Economy, which begins with the blood and heart, was resumed upon his return to Amsterdam the following spring.

213. Journal of Travel, Tafel, II, 114 ff.

214. Index Librorum Prohibitorum . . . Rome, 1758, p. 238. 215. Tafel, II, 130.

216. L, p. 482.

217. See p. 141 of Vol. II, Swedenborg's Photolithographs. 

218. L, p. 487.

THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUL

219. Oeconomia Regni Animalis ... London and Amsterdam, Vol. I, 1740, Vol. II, 1741.

220. See Grunddragen af Swedenborgs Lif, by A. H. Stroh, Stockholm, 1908, pp. 65-6.

221. Gustaf Retzius, Speech as President of the Congress of Anatomists at Heidelberg, 1903, and Croonian Lecture in London, 1908.
Max Neuburger, Lecture before the Congress of Scientists and Physicians in Hamburg, 1901.
O. M. Ramström, Swedenborg on the Cerebral Cortex, in the Proceedings of the International Swedenborg Congress, London, 1910, pp. 56-70.

222. EAK, Introd., Vol. I.

223. Ibid., Vol. II, Part 7, no. 579 ff.

224. Ibid., Vol. II, Part 2, Chapt. I.

225. The so-called "London Additions to the Brain," written in 1744 and published in R. L. Tafel's The Brain, London, 1887, no. 68.

226. 0. Martin Ramström, Emanuel Swedenborg's Investigations in Natural Science . . . , Upsala, 1910, p. 24.

227. EAK, Vol. I, no. 247; Vol. II, nos. 338, 227.

228. Ibid., II, nos. 199, 227.

229. Ibid., II, nos. 237, 251.

230. Ibid., II, no. 314 ff.

231. Ibid., II, no. 348 ff.

232. "Neue Zeitungen für gelehrten Sachen," Leipzig, 1740, pp. 553-4. Transl., NP, 1930, p. 201 ff.

233. "Zuverlassige Nachrichten" . . . Leipzig, No. 17, June 1741, pp. 337-362. Transl. NP, 1930, p. 203 ff.

234. "Bibliothèque Raisonnée," Amsterdam, 1741, Vol. XXVII, pp. 411-433. Transl. NP 1930, p. 218 ff.

235. "Zuverlässige Nachrichten," August, 1741, pp. 488-513. Transl., NP 1931, p. 416 ff.

236. "Bibliothèque Raisonnée," Jan.-Mar., 1742, pp. 134-7. Transl., NP, 1932, p. 33 ff.

AMONG THE LEARNED

237. Tafel, I, p. 367.

238. Works left in manuscript. The Fibre, and Diseases of the Fibre, etc. See Acton, Classified List of Swedenborg's Works prior to 1746.

239. Compare Tafel, I, 365.

240. Lars Benzelstierna to E. Swedenborg, Stockholm, Feb. 22, 1740. Tafel I, 364; L, 485-6. See Note 541.

241. Tafel, I, 586 ff.

242. Tafel, I, 648.

243. Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar, 1763, pp. 107-113. Text in A. H. Stroh, Grunddragen av Swedenborgs Lif, pp. 55-6. See L, p. 487 ff.

244. Tafel, 1, 565-85.

245. Minutes of the Board of Mines, Stockholm. Tafel I, 457. 246. NKT, 1921, p. 137 ff.

247. Ibid., p. 138 ff.

A PATH TO FAITH

248. Compare L, pp. 497-8 and Tafel, I, 458-9.

249. Regnum Animale, anatomice, physice et philosophice perlustratum, The Hague, 1744. Part I, "The Viscera of the Abdomen," Part II, "The Viscera of the Thorax." A third Part was issued later in London. (Tafel, II, 937. See Acton, Preface to Cerebrum.)

250. Introduction to The Animal Kingdom.

251. AK, Vol. I, Chapt. 1, "On the Tongue," opening number. 

252. Ibid., Vol. I. "On the Glands," no. 164 ff., no. 202 ff. 

253. Ibid., Vol. I.

254. The Brain, London, 1882, edited and translated by R. L. Tafel.

255. Swedenborg Congress, London, 1910, p. 124.

256. NP, 1932, p. 112 ff.

257. Ibid., 1933, p. 151 ff.

258. De Sensu Communi (The Senses) translated and edited by Enoch S. Price, Philadelphia, 1914.
De membris Genitalibus . . . (The Organs of Generation . . .) translated and edited by Alfred Acton, Phila., 1912.

259. M. F. A. Montagu, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia in NP, 1942, p. 147.

260. The Soul or Rational Psychology, New York, 1890, p. xxx.

THE IMMATERIAL WORLD

261. Introductio ad Psychologiam Rationalem . . . (Rational Psychology, translated by Norbert H. Rogers and Alfred Acton, Philadelphia, 1950).

262. Ibid., nos. 123-39. EAK, II, 10, 42.

263. "Fragment on the Soul," PsTr, p. 21.

264. RPs, nos. 521, 524.

265. Clavis Hieroglyphica arcanorum naturalium et spiritualium, ms. See Tafel, II, 928.

266. Martin Lamm, Swedenborg, en studie öfver hans utveckling till mystiker och andeskidare (Swedenborg, a study of his development to mystic and seer), Stockholm, 1915.

267. A copy of Plotinus' Opera Philosophica, preserved in the Linköping Diocesan Library, was said to have been used by Swedenborg. See the note by J. H. Lidén in Upsala University Library, in a book entitled, D. D. Historiala Litteraria Poetarum Svecanorum ... , 1764.

268. RPs, no. 522.

269. See Lamm, op. cit., pp. 118-120. Dr. Lamm is, however, mistaken in confusing Swedenborg's references to "the fires of the body" with the Divine light received from the soul. That by the light phenomena which led him on in his investigations Swedenborg could not have meant "ignis fatuis," see the Epilog to AK, vol. ii, no. 463.

270. Journal of Travel, Tafel, II, 79, 260. 271. Toksvig, as in Note 333, p. 83, 234. 272. AK, 1, 293.

THE TURNING POINT

273. For a discussion of The Journal of Dreams, see Tafel, II, 134-219 and II, 1118-28. The manuscript was immediately purchased from the heirs of Prof. R. Scheringsson of Västerås, by the Royal Library of Stockholm. Shortly after that it was published by the librarian, G. E. Klemming, in a small edition intended only for private circulation.

274. Emanuel Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams, translated from the Swedish and edited by C. Th. Odhner, Bryn Athyn, 1918. See p. 21.

275. Ibid., p. 25.

276. Ibid., p. 22 ff. According to statements in various places, the Lord's first appearance to Swedenborg occurred in 1743. See Tafel, I, 9, the autobiographical letter to Hartley, 1769, see p. 494, and his letter to the Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tafel, II, 387. See also 1118-28 and 134-49. See also Acton: IWE, pp. 40 ff., 75 ff. See also SD, no. 192 (August 31, 1747).

277. JD, pp. 29, 32.

278. Ibid., p. 64.

279. Ibid., p. 33.

280. Ibid., p. 33.

281. Ibid., p. 34.

282. Ibid., p. 39.

283. Ibid., pp. 47, 59.

284. Lamm., op. cit. (note 266), p. 133, 152-3.

285. JD, p. 66.

286. Ibid., p. 69.

287. See NCM, 1914, pp. 34-6, and Tafel, II, 587.

288. JD, p. 73.

289. See the Shearsmith letter to Provo, "New Documents," NCM, 1885, pp. 382-3. Shearsmith says Swedenborg lodged with a Mrs. Carr in 1746 (meaning perhaps 1745). See also Epilog, pp. 437-9.

290. Tafel, II, 609-10.

291. JD, p. 74.

292. Ibid., p. 77.

293. Ibid., p. 88.

294. Ibid., p. 83.

295. Ibid., p. 88.

296. Ibid., pp. 91, 99.

297. Ibid., pp. 93-4.

298. Ibid., p. 97. The medical disputation referred to is the Oratio Harveiana, October 18, 1744. A photograph of the title-page, etc., in AL, "CC i"

299. JD, p. 100.

300. Ibid., p. 101.

Chapter Twenty-four:

THE WORSHIP AND LOVE OF GOD

301. De Cultu et Amore Dei, Parts I and II, London, 1745.

302. The Worship and Love of God, translated by A. H. Stroh and F. Sewall, Boston, 1914. Preface.

303. Ibid., no. 48 ff. 55.

304. Ibid., no. 87.

305. Ibid., no. 112.

306. See Chapter XXIII.

307. Tafel, I, 31 ff. WE, no. 3557, and SD, no. 397.

308. To C. F. Nordenskiöld, Gothenburg, March 26, 1776. Tafel, II, 426. The incident refers possibly to the vision of Delft. See p. 185.

309. WLG, p. 105.

310. Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Svenska Siare och Skalder (Swedish Seers and Poets), Stockholm, 1841. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that the WLG "would of itself suffice to mark Swedenborg as a man of philosophic genius, radicative and evolvent. Much of what is most valuable in the physiosophic works of Schelling, Schubert and Eschermeyer is to be found anticipated in this supposed Dementato . :' See Life of Swedenborg by Nathaniel Hobart, Boston, 1831, p. 253.

311. "Bibliothèque Raisonnée," 1745, pp. 371-84. NP, 1933, p. 188. "Neue Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen," 1745, pp. 657-8. NP, 1933, p. 249.

312. Historia Creationis a Mose tradita, translated by A. Acton, The History of Creation as Related by Moses, Bryn Athyn, 1928.

313. Ibid., nos. 9, 10, 14.

314. Ibid., no. 33. See SD, no. 3217; Tafel, II, p. 1096.

315. NCL, 1896, p. 186.

316. See WLG, nos. 78-82. Swedenborg is dealing with neither history nor theology but with symbolism. The First-born is a symbol for the Mind of Man. The Prince-of-this-World is not a personal Devil, but a symbol for that faculty of the mind which receives its impressions from the senses, persuading man that he lives of himself, independently of his higher mind, and so finally falls from his high estate. That Swedenborg never believed that angels were created before the world is plain from his treatise on the Soul where he refutes the idea. See RPs, no. 555.

317. Tafel, II, 709 ff., and IWE, p. 108, where the date of the letter should be 1814. Dr. Beyer included this work in his complete Index to Swedenborg's Works. See note 707.

318. Lamm, as in note 266. See WLG, Chapter VIII. See also, H. Lj. Odhner, Swedenborg's Epic of Paradise and its Literary Sources, Bryn Athyn, 1945.

319. Courthope, History of English Poetry, Vol. III, p. 402.

320. De Messiah venturo in mundo, ms., translated by A. Acton, The Messiah about to Come, Bryn Athyn, 1949, p. 18.

321. JD, p. 237.

322. F. G. Lindh, Swedenborg som Söderbo, in NKT, 1921, pp. 170-72.

Chapter Twenty-five:

BIBLICAL STUDIES

323. Index Biblicus, ms,

324. Swedenborg to Beyer, Stockholm, Feb., 1767. Tafel, II, 260 ff.

325. A Philosopher's Notebook (excerpts and notes on various subjects, compiled and translated by A. Acton), Philadelphia, 1931.

326. A Hieroglyphic Key. See note 265.

327. See PsTr, Preface, p. xxv. It was written after the printing of no. 293, AK, III, 1743, and before the writing of WLG.

328. PsTr, pp. 217-18.

329. Ibid., pp. 249-52.

330. Ibid., p. 261.

331. The original text reads: "Nov: 17, 1745, begynte här tilskrifwa. Herre Jesu Christe led mig til och på the wägar som Tu wil at jag wandra skal. Sancti eritis, dabimini Spiritu Dei et Christi, et perseverabitis in justitia, hoc erit regni Dei testimonium" The passage does not appear to be quoted from the Bible. See IWE, p. 122 and Phototyped mss., VI, 1-32, end.

332. Explicatio in Verbum Historicum Veteris Testamenti, ms. 2102 pages. Translated by A. Acton as, The Word Explained, Vols. I-VIII, Bryn Athyn, Pa., 1928-48. See nos. 85, 680, 4296, 2417, 3348, 2645, 3345.

333. WE, 7006, 6884, 1150, 1892. SD, 2962. For a discussion of Swedenborg's experiences in the light of modern psychic research, see the recent biography by Signe Toksvig, Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic, New Haven, 1948. A detailed treatment of Swedenborg's handwriting during this period, and how his style was affected according to the spirit associated with him, is introduced under the caption "Automatic writing." Observing startling variations in his handwriting-entries of a single day being sometimes so different as to be mistakable for those of two individuals-Miss Toksvig accepts this as evidence that he was automatically under the spell of various controlling spirits or "psychon systems," and implies that this also is true of certain entries in The Spiritual Diary.

334. SD, 1647; De Verbo, 13 ad fin.; WE, 2532. 335. WE, 210.

336. Ibid., 23.

337. See H. Lj. Odhner, in NP, 1946, p. 355, and Tafel, II, 952. 

338. WE, 2162, 475.

339. Ibid., 943, 1003, 3347.

340. Tafel, I, 464 ff. Swedenborg to the King, Stockholm, June 2, 1747.

INSTEAD OF MIRACLES

341. Tafel, I, 465.

342. Tafel, I, 383-4.

343. Swedenborg's first autograph occurs on the title-page of a dissertation on Hebrew in the library of the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn: Excercitium academicum . . . seu locos Hebraeorum et veterum Gentilium leviter adumbrans . . . Stockholm, 1699. A letter from his father, in 1715, cites Emanuel's knowledge of oriental languages, Tafel, II, 742.

344. Swedenborg to Beyer, Stockholm, February, 1767. Tafel, II, 261.

345. See Dr. Tafel's opinion in II, 967.

346. SD, no. 4149.

347. "Fragmenta notarom ad Genesin et Exodum," ms., Tafel, II, 959. 

348. AC, no. 14.

349. WLG, nos. 78-82.

350. For a discussion of this subject, see Tafel, II, 1096-1113, and IWE, 147 ff. Also, SD, nos. 2938, 3217. Swedenborg to Beyer, Stockholm, Nov. 17, 1769, Tafel, II, 279-80.

351. The Spiritual Diary of Emanuel Swedenborg, Vols. I-V, translated by George Bush and John H. Smithson, London, 1883-1902.

352. Tafel, I, 384.

353. Tafel, II, 1125-7. JD, p. 55, April 17-18, 1744. 354. WE, no. 1003.

355. SD, no. 192, August 31, 1747.

356. SD, nos. 228, 243.

357. SD, no. 307, Dec. 5, 1747; no. 600, Jan. 30, 1748.

358. SD, no. 3624, Oct. 21, 1748.

359. SD, nos. 1166, 304. 360. SD, no. 1092, ff.

361. SD, no. 4123. (The italics are mine.) 362. SD, no. 102.

363. De Cerebro, no. 1190 et seq.

364. SD, nos. 3653, 1934, 4530.

365. See the article Emanuel Swedenborg; the man who dared to tell and do the truth, by C. Th. Odhner in NCL, April, 1902. AC, nos. 5180, 816, 59, 968. SD, nos. 2922, 2921:6.

366. RPs, no. 294-7.

367. Notably the recent biography by Signe Toksvig. See note 333.

HEAVENLY SECRETS

368. Tafel, I, 383-6. The notes were written on a volume previously used as an "Index to Isaiah and Genesis," and on a fly-leaf of the ms. of The Spiritual Diary.

369. The Swedish text reads: "Taga uti Exp. Sp. och sen lägg dem ihop." (Start with the Exp. Sp. and then put them together,) See Phototype of Index Biblicus, I, p. 395. Dr. Tafel (I, 384 and II, 973), supposes that the note refers to the ms. of the Arcana, but Dr. Acton (IWE, p. 132, note and following pages), has conclusively shown that the Arcana was not begun until about the beginning of December, 1748.

370. Arcana Coelestia quae in Scriptura Sacra, seu Verbo Domini suet, detecta: hic quae in Genesi. Una cum Mirabilibus quae visa sunt in Mundo Spiritum et Coelo Angelorum, London, John Lewis, Vol. I, 1749, to Vol. V, 1753. Ibid., . . . hic quae in Exodo ... Vol. VI, 1753 to Vol. VIII, 1756.

371. AC, nos. 1-5.

372. AC, nos. 6-13; 125.

373. AC, nos. 218 ff.; 1114-1129. 373a. AC, no. 250.

374. AC, nos. 257, 360 ff. Suffocation ensued when the "internal respiration" ceased. Swedenborg says that he could understand the nature of this suffocation, since his own breathing was so formed by the Lord that he could respire inwardly for a considerable time without the aid of external air. SD, 3317 ff., especially 3320, 2464. (See Chapter I, p. 5.)

375. AC, no. 560, ff.

376. AC, no. 1404 ff.

377. AC, nos. 67-72.

378. AC, no. 1880; also, 168-189; 314-323, etc.

379. Tafel, II, 492 ff.

380. SD, nos. 4422, 1464. 381. SD, no. 2955.

382. Tafel, II, 498-9.

383. Tafel, II, 974, note. See R. Hindmarsh, Rise and Progress of the New Jerusalem Church, London, 1861, p. 6.

384. Tafel, II, 223-6, and 607-8.

GREEN THINGS GROWING

385. Official description of Swedenborg's property, in the Royal Library, Stockholm. See Tafel, I, 390-93. Our account has been built on various testimonies, such as Robsahm, Sandals, Collin, Gjörwell, etc. See Tafel, I, 31; 4-51; II, 421 ff.; 402 ff., 717-35; I, 698-700; 390-92. See also Fredrika Ehrenborg, Något Nytt, no. VII, 1864, pp. 35-43; 56-66; IR, London, 1867, p. 69. (Reprinted in Appendix E.)

386. See articles by F. G. Lind in NKT, 1921, pp. 137-40; 144-6; 160-63; 169-74. Phototypes, Codex IX, 487. AC, 3060 (ms. draft).

386a. SD, no. 3753.

387. Tafel, II, 226 ff.

388. "Almanacka för 1752." See NKT, 1903, July-Sept. Translation in "New Church Weekly," 1915, p. 211 ff.
See C. L. Odhner (Sigstedt), Swedenborg's Hobby, NCL, 1923, pp. 65-72

389. TCR, no. 585. C. Th. Odhner, Spermatogenesis, the Analogous Production of Vegetable and Animal Seed, NCL, 1906, p. 1 ff.

390. CL, no. 316.

391. See note 388.

392. Pehr Kalm, En Resa til Norra America, in "The American Scandinavian Review," 1922.

393. Compare "Errores typographica," (ms.) in Royal Library, Stockholm. Tafel, II, 977; I, 43, no. 37.

394. Robsahm's Memoirs. Original ms. in R. L. Transcript, ACSD. Tafel, I, 30-51. 395. Swedenborg's organ is in the summer house at Skansen, Northern Museum, Stockholm.

396. Mariae Bästa Del, eller thet ena nödvändiga . . . Påminnelser angående then Christna Trons Ldrostycken (Mary's the Better Part or the one thing necessary . . . Reminder concerning the doctrinals of Christian Belief). Vol. I, Stockholm, 1752, Vol. II, 1756. Anonymously published by Elizabeth Stjärnkrona. The second volume, containing Swedenborg's autograph, is in the Royal Library, Stockholm.

397. Concerning Frederick Gyllenborg, see SD, 5161, 5976, 5983. Elizabeth Stjärnkrona died in 1769. A. Fryxell, the Swedish historian, is responsible for the statement that "the wife of Frederick Gyllenborg awaited Sweden borg in heaven as his true bride." Berättelser ur Svenska Historien, no. 43, p. 201.
"The anecdote was preserved by Charles Augustus Tulk, who probably had it through his father from Hartley, or some of Swedenborg's English friends," says William White, Emanuel Swedenborg, his Life and Writings, London, 1867, II, p. 500. See also Dr. A. Kahl, of Lund, A Gifted and Bible-versed Countess, in Snall-Posten, a Swedish newspaper of Dec. 4, 1858.

THE LAST JUDGMENT

398. See George Trobridge, A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, London, 1913, Chapter I, "Religion in the Eighteenth Century."

399. SD, no. 5711 ff., written in March, 1757.

400. AC, no. 4689.

401. SD, nos. 4461, 4543, 4488, 4564, 4654 m., 4718 m.

402. SD, nos. 4351, 4396, 5132-3.

403. SD, 4375.

404. SD, nos. 4375, 4704, 4741-52, 4763, 4768, 4900. See the article Swedenborg och Karl XII, by K. G. Hildebrand, in "Svenska Dagbladet," Stockholm, Nov. 30, 1947.

405. SD, nos. 4627 m., 4701 ff., 4835, 4839, 4842-3.

406. SD, nos. 4730 m., 4751 m., 4753 m., 4763 m., 5751.

407. Tafel, 1, 698. SD, nos. 4740, 5161, 5976, 5983, 5984, 5996.

408. SD, nos. 204, 4594, 3699, 2963, 3712, 3194, 3207,4478-9, 4373, 4448, 5486, 4344.

409. SD, no. 4717.

410. SD, no. 4749.

411. SD, nos. 4752 m., 4722, 5059, 4757 m., 6071.

412. SD, nos. 4744, 4727-8, 6049. The passage in SD, 4550, refers to the Hamburg pastor, Johan Christopher Wolf, who died in 1739, not to Christopher Wolff, the philosopher, who died in 1754. The passage was written in 1751. See Tafel, I, 618. Compare I, 690.

413. SD, nos. 4702-3.

414. JD, July 14-15, 1744. SD, nos. 4856, 4851, 5052, 5056, 5898, Tafel, 1, 365.

415. SD, nos. 4698, 4706-7.

416. SD, nos. 4683, 4781 m., 4786 m., 5461-3, 5479, 5867, 6028. See Oscar Montelius, et al. Sveriges Historia, Stockholm, 1894, V, 119.

417. SD, no. 3814, L.J.C. (as in note 424), nos. 84, 2. 417a. See NCL, 1932, p. 49 ff.

418. SD, nos. 6087, 6091, 5834. TCR, 102, 827.

419. SD, nos. 4181-2; Tafel, I, 50; SD, nos. 4729, 6025. 

420. SD, no. 4530.

421. "Neue Zeitungen," 1750, May 4, No. 36. 

422. AC, III.

423. De Ultimo Judicio, et de Babylonia Destructa ... (The Last Judgment and the Destruction of Babylon), London, 1758, nos. 45, 15, 46 ff. AE, 1. 

424. "Of the Last judgment upon the Reformed," in: The Last Judgment Continued, 1763, n0. 14 ff.; 9-11.

425. Ibid., nos. 12, 30, 31.

426. L.J. nos. 73-4 (as in note 423), L.J.C. (as in note 424), no. 7.

LIFE AFTER DEATH

427. De Coelo et ejus Mirabilibus, et de Inferno, ex auditis et visis. (Heaven and its wonders, and Hell: from things heard and seen), London, 1758.
De Equo Albo, de quo in Apocalypsi ... (The White Horse mentioned in the Apocalypse), London, 1758.
De Ultimo Judicio, et de Babylonia Destructa . . . (The Last Judgment and the Destruction of Babylon), London, 1758.
De Nova Hierosolyma et ejus Doctrina Coelesti ... (The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine), London, 1758.
De Telluribus in Mundo nostro Solari ... (The Earths in our Solar System), London, 1758.

428. Apocalypsis Explicata ... ms., 1992 pp. four volumes, quarto.

429. See note 515.

430. The subject of "The Grand Man" is treated in Arcana Coelestia, no. 3624 et seq., under the heading: "Concerning the correspondence of all man's organs and members, both interior and exterior, with the Grand Man which is Heaven," and consecutively between the chapters, under related headings. See Earths in the Universe, 1-4.

431. HH, no. 445.

432. Marguerite Beck Block, The New Church, in Swedes in America, edited by A. B. Benson and N. Hedin, New Haven, 1938, pp. 289 ff.

433. HH, Introduction.

434. De Athanasii Symbolo (The Athanasian Creed), ms.

435. SD, 6101.

ASTONISHMENT IN SWEDEN

436. Hvad nytt i staden?, a supplement to Johan Rosén's "Götheborgska Magazinet," July 30, 1759.

437. Tafel, II, 227.

438. See "Grefve Gustaf Bondes Uppsatser samt Correspondence uti lärda ämnen," in the State Archives, Stockholm.

439. Tafel, II, 228-31.

440. In the Royal Library, Stockholm. See NP, 1905, p. 27. 

441. In the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Tafel, II, 233-4. 

442. See NCL, 1896, p. 186. Linnaeus also had Swedenborg's books in his library. The Bodeleian library at Oxford has a set of the Arcana which Swedenborg seems to have presented.

443. The present writer had the privilege of copying this and other items from the original Diaries of Tessin, at Akerö Castle in Södermanland in the summer of 1915, through the courtesy of Mr. G. F. Enderlein, present owner of the estate. Akerö was built by Carl Gustaf Tessin in 1756. The fine portraits, the tapestries and frescoes, all bring one back quite vividly to Swedenborg's days. The clock that strikes the hours over the stately portal is a voice from the distant past, and in the antique gilded mirrors one easily pictures the powdered wigs and courtly graces of rococo cavaliers and their ladies. When the estate passed out of the hands of the Tessin family it was with the stipulation that the old library should remain permanently at Åkerö. See C. Odhner (Sigstedt) New Documents concerning Swedenborg. NCL, 1916, p. 95 ff.

444. Tessin's Diary, February 28, 1760. Tafel, II, 398-401; 647-666.

445. See SD, no. 5996, written after Dec. 13, 1759.

446. NCL, 1916, p. 95 ff.

447. C. G. Tessin's Diary, Åkerö, July 4, 1760. Vol. II, pp. 890-91. Transcript in ACSD.

448. Tafel, II, 395-7.

449. From Frederik Sparres Dagbok (Diary), 1758-1770, in Eriksbergs archives, under the date 1760, 27/9. See Carl Gustaf Tessin och hans Akerokrets, by Sigrid Leijonhufvud, 1931, pp. 127-131, and an article by the same author in Ord och Bild, pp. 440-41, entitled Carl Gustaf Tessin på Svindersvik, where a picture of the salon is reproduced. See also C. G. Malmström, Sveriges politiska historia från konung Karl XII:s död til statsvälvningen 1772 (second ed.), p. 449 and NCL, 1948, p. 112. See also H. Hofberg, Svenskt Biogr. Lexikon, Stockholm, 1906, II, pp. 571-2.

450. Tafel, II, 633-46. The incident of "the lost receipt" has been related by twelve different witnesses in twelve different ways, none of them unquestionably accurate in every detail. So the truth of what really happened must be sifted out of somewhat contradictory accounts. We have made a composite picture of the story, based mainly on the testimony of Swedenborg's friend and neighbor, Carl Robsahm, augmented by "An Authentic account by Fran Canzlerin von Korn" (Mme de Marteville), dated Wernigerode am Harz, Jan. 27, 1805.

Because of an indisposition she let her second husband, the Danish general von Eiben, write this as "her true and veritable statement." Obvious inaccuracies made Dr. Tafel discredit it as testimony. It was written at a time when scandals were being widely circulated against Swedenborg, and evidently the writer's object was to remove from his wife the appearance of having visited an alleged necromancer.

The original document is in the Royal Library, The Hague, among the papers of van Gaens. It differs slightly from the Tafel document. Transcript in ACSD.

451. Tafel, II, 635-6.

452. Tafel, II, 647 ff.; 432, ff. See NCL, 1916, p. 186 ff.

453. "Göttingeschen Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen" Nothing is known of any article in the above magazine describing Swedenborg.

454. General Tuxen says that at this point he inquired of Swedenborg whether any person had heard what the queen said, when she gave him the commission. He answered " `I do not know; yet she did not speak so low but that the King and Count Scheffer, if they had attended, might have heard it.' This account is trustworthy, as the late venerable man himself related it to me." The Tuxen testimony was published by Augustus Nordenskiöld, in English translation, from the Danish original in his possession. (The queen's brother, Crown Prince August Wilhelm, was heir apparent to Frederick the Great.) Tafel, II, 650 ff. Appendix to NCM, 1791, p. 267 ff.

455. Tafel, II, 655-6. Queen Louisa Ulrica to Dieudonn6 Thiebault, member of the Academy of Frederick the Great.

456. Tafel, I, 65, note.

457. NKT, 1921, p. 171.

458. Tafel, I, 36. This may have been the clergyman who "by his pathos and eloquence always filled his church with listeners." When he died Robsahm asked Swedenborg whether he was in a state of blessedness. "This man," Swedenborg replied, "went straightway to hell among the societies of hypocrites, for it was only while in the pulpit that he was spiritually minded. At other times he was proud of his talents and worldly success-an inflated man. Dissimulation and deceitful arts are of no avail. They all disappear with death and man involuntarily shows himself to be either good or bad." Tafel, I, 45.

459. SD, no. 5997. "T he simple understand things which the wise do not. I have written in the Explication on the Apocalypse some things which belong to the interior intelligence, as for instance respecting the celestial, spiritual and natural man and respecting goods and truths in their order. A certain married woman who lived at Tisula Market (midt pä Tisula Bodarna) with whom I conversed when I had finished, was in simple faith from the heart. She understood everything clearly. But a learned man who was there did not understand-indeed could not understand. It was so with many." (Written between June 12, 1760, and August 15, 1761.)

460. Klas Ekeblads Journal for 1762, p. 124, ms. In the Royal Library, Stockholm.

461. SD, no. 6027. The identity of De la Gardie here referred to is established by the preceding document. Compare Encycl. Brit., 14th ed., VIII, 362.

462. Tafel, I, 37-8.

463. Tafel, II, 432-3. See Signe Toksvig, Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic, New Haven, 1948, pp. 327-8.

464. Tafel, II, pp. 489-91. The expression is "a party in Amsterdam," but Swedenborg was not in Amsterdam at that time. The slip, no doubt, was due to the fact that the relater of the incident (at second hand) was in Holland at the time. That Swedenborg was in Stockholm is evident from (a) Count Ekeblad's having met him on June 16, 1762, and (b) from a letter signed by Swedenborg on August 13 of that year. See N. C. Messenger, 1908, p. 202. This confusion of dates led Dr. Tafel to accredit Swedenborg with one more foreign journey than he actually took! See Tafel, II, 619; 995, 1165.

465. Tafel, II, 715-17. 

466. Tafel, II, 725, 1245. 467. SD, nos. 5492-5. See also G, V, 622, 606 ff. The expression . "Er: Br." in this passage was taken to refer to Erik Brahe, but see Index to SD, where the name Broman is given, phototype ed., Vol. III. However, as Broman died in 1757, and the anecdote is ascribed to a time "shortly after his death," it must be weighed in the light of the fact that Swedenborg's spiritual experiences were not generally known until three years later.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO GOVERNMENT

467a. Riksdagsskrifter (Parliamentary Papers), Tafel, II, 991.

468. SD, no. 4725 m., 4765 m., 5799. Like Polhem, Frederick I saw his own funeral through Swedenborg's eyes. He even heard the sound of bells continuing for hours, it is said, and at first expressed astonishment that, although dead, he could see and hear things; then he rejoiced at being alive again. Swedenborg saw him' later in a very vile condition, for King Frederick had been totally devoted to unchastities and idle pleasures and his lot was among the unhappy.

His consort, Ulrika Eleonora, who had preceded her husband into the other world by five years, was among the blessed, says Swedenborg. He saw her on the 15th of August, 1761, with her spiritual partner who, like her, had "studied the Word and loved the knowledges of spiritual truth." They were taken to their home, a magnificent palace. SD, no. 6009.

469. Montelius, O., et al., Sveriges Historia, Vol. V, pp. 145-6, 151-2.

470. SD, no. 5099.

471. Tafel, 1, 493-5. See also Tal om Förhållandet af Varors in-och utförsel . . . (On Import and Export of Goods), by Samuel Sandels, April 24, 1782, p. 93.

472. Tafel, I, 65, noter

473. G, vol. VI, p. 535.

474. Tafel, I, 497-503.

475. Anders Nordencrantz, Rikets hjälp genom en naturlig finanssystem (The Country's help by a natural system of finance), Stockholm, 1760.

476. Tafel, I, 511-515.

477. Tafel, I, 515-21.

478. Tafel, I, 521.

479. Tafel, I, 523.

480. Tafel, I, 527-8.

481. Tafel, I, 528-9.

482. C. D. Skogman, Antekningar af Rikets Stdnders Bank, 1845, pp. 46-8. 483. Tafel, I,, 530-33.

484. Carl Gustaf Tessin, och hans Åkerökretz (as in note 449), p. 152. Tafel, I, 536 ff.

485. Tafel, I, 538 ff. 486. SD, no. 5994. 487. Tafel, II, 408. 488. Tafel, I, 536.

Chapter Thirty-three:

THE LIKENESS OF A DRAGON

489. "Neue Zeitungen," Leipzig, 1750, May 4, pp. 313-16.

490. "Neue Theologische Bibliothek," 1760, edited by J. A. Ernesti, pp. 515-27.

 491. Swedenborg and Ernesti, by C. Th. Odhner, in NCL, 1912, p. 134 ff., 197 ff.

 492. Ibid., p. 137.

493. Continuation of the Last Judgment, nos. 11, 30. See note 502.

494. "Svenska Mercurius," 1763, June, p. 462.

495. Tafel, II, 620 ff. See p. 627.

496. Sapientia Angelica de Divino Amore et de Divina Sapientia (Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom), Amsterdam, 1763. See nos. 1-3, 46.

497. Sapientia Angelica de Divina Providentia (Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine Providence), Amsterdam, 1764. Nos. 71-9, 175-190, 340.

498. Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Lord), Amsterdam, 1763. See the Preface.

499. Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Scriptura Sacra (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Sacred Scripture), Amsterdam, 1763.

500. Doctrina Vitae Pro Nova Hierosolyma ex Praeceptis Decalogi (The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem from the Precepts of the Decalogue), Amsterdam, 1763.

501. Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Fide (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting Faith), Amsterdam, 1763.

502. Continuatio de Ultimo Judicio, et de Mundo Spirituali, Amsterdam, 1763.

503. SD, no. 5986. Swedenborg describes seeing Lewis in the other world, walking along a forbidden road, not seeing "the crossbeams which indicated that the road was blocked off." The reason was, he says, that Lewis, the printer, believed himself to be sincere and true when nevertheless he was insincere and false; he was everywhere driven away.

504. Tafel, II, 540-41. 505. NCL, 1896, p. 186.

506. "Neue Theologische Bibliothek," IV, 1763, pp. 725-33.

507. "Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux Arts," The Hague, 1763, pp. 550-53; 1764, p. 292.

508. "Journal des Scavans," Amsterdam, October, 1764, pp. 528-33. See ACSD, "CC 19."

509. "Monthly Review," London, June, 1764, pp. 573-5. Tafel, II, 610. SD, 4749 m., 4774 m., etc.

510. Samuel Alnander, Anvisning til et Utvald Theologiskt Bibliothek, Stockholm, 1763, p. 73.

511. "Svenska Mercurius," C. C. Gjörwell, editor, Stockholm, January, 1764, pp. 285-6. This magazine was succeeded by another monthly "Svenska Magazinet." Then came "Tidningar om Lärda Saker" (Literary News) and "Allmänna Tidningar" (General News), in all of which occur stray items concerning Swedenborg and his books.

512. Tafel, II, 235.

513. Tafel, II, 402-5. Gjörwell published this account in his "Contributions to Swedish History," (Anmärkningar i Svenska Historien, I, pp. 220-24). The original ms. is in the Royal Library, Stockholm.

514. Swedenborg does not record this appearance of the Lord to him in his private diary. See Tafel, II, 1090.
One questions whether Gjörwell, in the statement that follows, has reported Swedenborg's exact words: "Since that time God had prepared him by a thorough knowledge of all physical and moral powers in this world," is a little foreign to his usual mode of describing his preparation.