THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED

515. Apocalypsis Revelata, in qua deteguntur arcana quae ibi praedicta sent (The Apocalypse Revealed, wherein are disclosed the mysteries there foretold . . .), Amsterdam, 1766.

516. AR, Introduction.

517. SD, no. 6110.73.

518. AR, no. 153 and following relations. See also S. C. Odhner (Sigstedt) The Memorable Relations in Apocalyse Revealed, in New Church Messenger, 1939, p. 130 ff.

519. AR, no. 531; SD, nos. 6108 (written between Dec. 3, 1764, and April 29, 1765); 6107.

520. Tafel, I, 25, 34.

521. Tafel, II, 241-2, 239-40, 416; I, 66.

EARLY BELIEVERS

522. Our account is taken from Dr. Beyer's written testimony, Tafel, II, 324-5, 424-9, and Wenngren's account in NCM, London, 1790, p. 41; Tafel, II, 699. Wenngren states that Swedenborg was leaving for England instead of for Holland which is, of course, a mistake. See also Tafel, I, 623-5; 1:I, 244.

523. NCL, 1916, p. 292.

524. Tafel, II, 236. 5

25. Tafel, II, 239-40.

526. Tafel, II, 237-9.

527. Tafel, II, 240-41.

528. Tafel, II, 242.

J. W. Hultkrantz, The Mortal Remains of Emanuel Swedenborg, Upsala, 1910, p. 92 ff. In his "List and Analysis of Portraits," A. H. Stroh dates this portrait 1770.

529. Tafel, II, 245. See notes 542 and 544 of this section.

530. Tafel, II, 1170 ff.
NCL, 1895, pp. 86, 90; 1911, pp. 45-6. IR, 1825, pp. 438-9; and A Memoir of the Rev. Wm. Cookworthy, by Theodore Compton, 1895.

531. Tafel, II, 536-9; 544.

532. Tafel, II, 528 ff.

533. Tafel, II, 536 ff.

534. This follows from a statement made by Shearsmith to Provo. See "New Documents concerning Swedenborg," in NCM, August, 1885 and "London Haunts and Habitations," in George Trobridge, A Life of E. Swedenborg, p. 292. That Swedenborg had "previously stayed there" may also refer to his domicile in 1759.

535. "Mrs. Shearsmith" refers to Elizabeth Reynolds, who served as maid in the Shearsmith home at the time that Swedenborg lived there, and afterwards became the second Mrs. Shearsmith. See the "Affidavit of November 25, 1785," Tafel, II, 577 ff. The document was dated 1785, instead of 1775, as there given. See NCL, 1924, p. 492, and Tafel, II, 544-6, 575 n0. 10. See CL, no. 242.
An original copy of Conjugial Love, the property of the Rev. Raymond Cranch, Bryn Athyn, Pa., contains a footnote signed "W. S. 1788," in the handwriting of William Spence, on the page containing the quotation from CL, no. 242, reading: "Mrs. Shearsmith adhuc vivens confimt hoc facturn in cujus domo e mundo decessit E. Swedenborg." (Mrs. Shearsmith, still living, confirms this fact, in whose house Emanuel Swedenborg departed this world.) However, since the incident must have occurred before 1768, when CL was published, it could not have referred to the Shearsmith sojourn, as Swedenborg did not go to them until 1769, unless we assume that he lived with the Shearsmiths three times.

536. Tafel, II, 250-51.

537. Tafel, I, 41-2.

538. Tafel, II, 431-2.

539. Tafel, I, 590 ff.

540. Kunglika Vetenskapsakademiens Protocoller för år 1760, April 23; 1761, Tune 3. Tafel, I, 586-90.

541. Ibid., 1763, Printed Handlingar, pp. 107-113. See also Nils Zinzén, Om den s.k. Swedenborg-stammen och marmorbordet (On Swedenborg's fossil treetrunk and his marble-topped table), pp. 85-101.

542. N. V. E. Nordenmark, Swedenborg och Longitudproblemet, med anledning av ett nyfunnet brev från Wargentin, in Lychnos, 1944-5, pp. 243-8. Contains the Swedish and English text of the letter, with notes. Original in the University of Upsala, recently donated by Dr. C. Th. Fries. Nordenmark failed to mention Professor Mallet's report to the Academy, Nov. 19, 1766, or the letter of Professor Nils Schenmark of Linköping to Swedenborg, stating his objections to this method, and Swedenborg's reply. See note 539. 543. Tafel, I, 592-3.

544. See Wertha Pendleton Cole, Swedenborg's Work on Longitude, NP, April, 1933, pp. 169-178.

545. Numbers 545, 546, 547, 548 transferred.

549. Stockholm, Sept., 1766. Tafel, II, 245-8.

550. Götheborgska Magazinet n:o 48, Nov. 27, 1766.

551. Stockholm, Sept. 25, 1766. Tafel, II, 250-51.

552. Nya Förödk til förklaring öfwer Sön-och Högtidsdags-Texter (New Attempts at explaining the texts for Sundays and Holidays), Gothenburg, 1767. Referred to as Household Sermons (by G. A. Beyer), anon.

553. Tafel, II, 260-62.

554. Tafel, I, 67-8.

555. Tafel, II, 723-4. The anecdote was related by the widow of Prof. Rissell of Upsala - the little girl of the story - to Madam Frederika Ehrenborg of Linköping, one of the first Swedenborgians in that neighborhood.

REACTIONS IN GERMANY

556. Tafel, II, 1027 ff., 1055, 1281.

557. K. C. Ehmann, Oetingers Leben and Briefe, Stuttgart, 1859, pp. 676-7.

558. Tafel, II, 252-5.

559. Tafel, II, 255-7.

560. Tafel, II, 1033 ff.

561. Tafel, II, 258-60.

562. H. V. Clemm, Vollständige Einleitung in die Religion and gesammte Theologie, Tübingen, 1767. See "Morning Light," 1891, p. 121.

563. See "Erlanger gelehrten Anmerkungen," Feb. 8, 1766, and "Göttingeschen Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," I, March, 1766, pp. 201-10; and "Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek," Berlin and Stettin ... 1766, pp. 86-93.

564. Immanuel Kant, Träume eines Geistersehers, Königsberg, 1766. Tafel, II, 259.
For further evidence of Oetinger's disaffection, see his letters to those who were spreading Swedenborg's doctrines, where he says: . . . "By this it is as clear as day that I do not approve of Swedenborg's interpretations," etc. Oetinger's Leben and Briefe, p. 298.

565. Tafel, II, 625 ff.

566. Tafel, II, 620-28.

567. See the new testimony in Ernst Benz, Swedenborg in Deutschland, Frankfurtam-Main, 1947. A review of the same by Claire Berninger, in NP, 1948, pp. 255-8. Swedenborg left Sweden in June, not May. He travelled toHolland, not directly to England. There he published Divine Love and Wisdom. It was previously surmised that his reference to an answer to Kant pointed to the Intercourse between the Soul and the Body. See Tafel, II, 624, 620-25; 1222-4, and Darstellung des Lebens and Charakters Im. Kants (Life and character of Im. Kant), Königsberg, 1804, pp. 211-25, by L. E. Borowski, revised and corrected by Kant himself. Strangely enough, Kant's letter, now lost, was, as to all its dates, falsified in the printed version, which gives the date of writing as August 10, 1758, although it discusses events that did not occur until several years later. Dr. Immanuel Tafel attributes the falsification of dates to the biographer's desire to prove that Träume eines Geistersehers, and not the letter to Fräulein von Knobloch, was Kant's final word on Swedenborg. But see the conclusive arguments of Dr. Benz that the letter must have been written in 1763. See also the important new German biography of Ernst Benz: Emanuel Swedenborg: Naturforscher and Seher, Munich, 1948. And the reviews by the Rev. Wm. F. Wunsch in "The New Christianity," Spring, 1948, pp. 75-9, and Winter, 1949, pp. 30-36; 26.

568. Benz, Swedenborg in Deutschland, p. 245.

569. See the article, Emanuel Swedenborg's Cosmogony, by Hans Hoppe, in NCM, 1912, pp. 385-94 and 446-54, translated from "Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie," XXX, Band, 1 Heft, pp. 53-68.
Professor Svante Arrhenius, in considering the question to what extent Swedenborg's ideas in cosmology have formed the basis of the work of his successors, notices the close agreement of his ideas with those of Kant and of his predecessor, Buffon: Whether Kant was acquainted with Swedenborg's philosophic works is not known, but Prof. Arrhenius considered it "quite manifest that Kant has borrowed his ideas from Swedenborg and clothed them in more philosophic garments." There is conclusive evidence that Buffon possessed the three volumes of Swedenborg's Opera Philosophica, for he wrote his name and the date "1736" on the title-pages of a set now preserved in the "Forbes Collection" of the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, New York. See A. H. Stroh in OpQu, II, p. 372, and Arrhenius' Introduction to the same volume.

570. TCR, 814.

571. See the article, "Swedenborg als geistiger Wegbahner der deutschen Idealismus and der deutschen Romantik," by Ernst Benz, in Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Jahrg. xix, Heft 1. See Waldo Peebles in The Swedenborg Student, 1938.

572. De Amore Conjugiali, Amsterdam, 1768. See note 612.

573. See the article "Discoveries in Germany," by Alfred Acton in NCL, 1948, p. 354 ff.

574. Ibid., 367.

575. Ibid., 365.

576. Tafel, I, 34-5, no. 14.

577. Tafel, II, 231-3.

578. Tafel, II, 388-9, 390-1. DP, 135.

VISITORS YOUNG AND OLD

579. Amandus Johnson, The Journal and Biography of Nicolas Collin, Philadelphia, 1936, pp. 105-7, 199. Tafel, II, 417-24, and S. C. Odhner (Sigstedt), A New Document concerning Swedenborg, NCL, 1914, pp. 45-53.

580. The Pehr Kraft portrait hanging in the castle of Gripsholm, shows Swedenborg in a brown coat, holding a bound copy of Apocalypse Revealed in his left hand. Another portrait, also by a Swedish artist, Frederick Brander, shows him in a blue coat, holding the manuscript of the same work in his right hand. According to A. H. Stroh, the original hangs in the Northern Museum, Stockholm. Various copies or replicas exist, painted by several artists, one in the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm; another painting, in the Academy of the New Church, Pennsylvania, was sent to America in 1876, together with documents proving that it used to hang in Swedenborg's bedchamber. See the "List and Analysis of Portraits of Swedenborg," in J. V. Hultkrantz, The Mortal Remains of Swedenborg, p. 92 ff.

581. Adjoining the summer house Swedenborg built a low structure to hold his library, in two book cases, a long mirror hanging between them. See Tafel, I, 392 and II, 734. See the illustration in Trobridge's Life, 1912, p. 310. According to Robsahm the summer house was not built until after Swedenborg's visit to England in 1767. See Tafel, I, 32. See Charles Higham, Swedenborg's Library, NCM, 1910, p. 49 ff.

582. "The Philadelphia Gazette," August 12, 1801.

583. Tafel, II, 710, 1247.

584. Hjalmar Kylén, Some Indications of Swedenborg's Influence on Swedish and German Thought, in International Swedenborg Congress, London, 1910, p. 150. The 3-vol. translation of TCR by Jonas Persson Odhner, Dean of Wadsbo and Lyrestad, was published in Copenhagen, 1795. C. Th. Odhner, Annals of the New Church, 367, 181.

585. Tafel, II, 723. See note 555.

586. Tafel, I, 32-4, 390-92; 56-7. See Henrik Alm, Swedenborgs Hus, 1938.

587. Tafel, II, 724-5. This anecdote is related by the historian, Anders Fryxell, to the secretary of the Swedish Academy, Baron von Beskow. Fryxell, wrote an inaccurate biographical sketch of Swedenborg in his popular "Tales from Swedish History" (Berättelser ur Svenska Historien). See Svenska Akademiens Handl., 1859, p. 215, and the poem by C. J. G. Snoilsky in Svenska Bilder.

588. Tafel, I, 43.

589. Tafel, I, 51; Cuno, p. 14; see notes 396, 397.

590. See Sandel's Eulogium on Swedenborg, and Robsahm's Memoirs, Tafel, I, 12 ff.

591. CL, no. 43.

592. Tafel, I, 38.

593. The Northampton Mercury, July 4, 1768, last column.

594. Tafel, II, 430 ff. Toksvig, p. 327. See note 716.

TRUE MARRIAGE LOVE

595. See note 612.

596. CL, nos. 229, 69.

597. CL, nos. 27-41.

598. CL, no.. 46.

599. CL, nos. 57, 68, 71.

600. CL, no. 134.

601. CL, nos. 439-445.

602. CL, nos. 81, 423 ff.

603. CL, nos. 1-26.

604. CL, no. 137.

605. Tafel, II, 238.

605a. Tafel, II, 244.

606. Tafel, II, 267.

607. NCL, 1916, pp. 139-150; Tafel, II, 378-9.

608. Robert Sundelin, Swedenborgianismens  Historia i Sverige, Upsala, 1886, p. 64 ff. NCL, 1910, p. 223.

609. SD, no. 5036.

610. Tafel, II, 724. 

611. NCL, 1884, p. 45.

Chapter Thirty-nine:

AN AMSTERDAM ACQUAINTANCE

612. Delitiae Sapientiae de Amore Conjugiali, post quas sequuntur voluptates insaniae de Amore Scortatorio, ab Emanuele Swedenborg, Sueco (The Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love, after which follow the Pleasures of Insanity concerning Scortatory Love, by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swede), Amsterdam, 1768.

613. This testimony is contained in Cuno's autograph manuscript in the Library of Brussels. See the extract in. Tafel, II, 441-85 and the translation by Claire E. Berninger, edited by A. Acton, J. C. Cuno's Memoirs on Swedenborg ... Bryn Athyn, Pa., 1947.

614. The reference is to the Marquis d'Havrincourt, the French Ambassador to Stockholm and The Hague, who died in 1767. See Cuno, pp. 15, 55.

615. J. Vilhelm Hultkrantz, The Mortal Remains of Emanuel Swedenborg, Upsala, 1910, p. 39.

616. Nieuwe Vaderlandische Letter-0efeningen (New Literary Exercises of the Fatherland), Vol. II, no. 1. Amsterdam, 1769.

617. Tafel, II, 476.

618. Tafel, II, 468.

619. See note 626.

620. Tafel, II, 465-75; Cuno, pp. 100-115.

621. See note 653.

622. Cuno, pp. 117-19.

623. The French Ana assigns to Mareschal Villars this aphorism when taking leave of Louis XIV. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th edn. 1891, p. 808.

624. NJM, 1790, p. 82; Tafel, II, 273, 297. NCL, 1916, p. 425 ff.

625. Cuno, p. 120 ff.

THE NEW EVANGEL

626. Summaries Expositio Doctrinae Novae Ecclesiae, quae per Novam Hierosolymam in Apocalypsi intelligitur, ab Emanuele Swedenborg, Sueco (A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church, which is understood by the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse), Amsterdam, 1769. See nos. 91-4, and letters to Beyer, Tafel, II, 273-6.

627. To Beyer, Tafel, II, 275-6.

628. This inscription occurs in a single manuscript folio page, entitled: An Ecclesiastical History of the New Church, contained in Codex 47 of the Swedenborg ms. in the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Tafel, II, 757.

629. Certain references to passages in the Arcana Coelestia which follow are not written in Swedenborg's hand, but were probably added by a former owner.

630. Preface to Brief. Expos., see note 626.

631. Tafel, II, 275-6.

632. Tafel, II, 1005, 1008.

633. Tafel, II, 701.

634. Tafel, II, 309. Many copies actually issued from Paris, through a bookseller who sent to Amsterdam to buy up all the copies to be found there. See Nathaniel Hobart, Life of Swedenborg, Boston, 1850, p. 164, note.

635. NCL, 1916, pp. 426-30.

636. Tafel, II, 722-3. See Biographie Universelle, Vol. 40, the article on Swedenborg, which shows that his meeting with one Elie Ariste seems to have brought about some curious misconceptions as to Swedenborg's finances.

637. Tafel, II, 276; NCL, 1916, p. 427.

638. Shearsmith says Swedenborg came to him from Mrs. Carr, with whom he had lodged after leaving Brockmer in 1744. He says "in 1746," but this, is obviously a mistake. See NCM, 1885. See note 534.

639. Wm. White, Emanuel Swedenborg; his Life and Writings, London, 1867, II, p. 574. Also, George Trobridge, A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, London, 1913, pp. 295-7. NCM, August, 1885.

640. Tafel, I1, 532.

641. Tafel, II, 1170.

642. Tafel, II, 1061; I, 600; II, 539. NCL, 1895, pp. 86, 90. The question of Swedenborg being a vegetarian is open to debate. Shearsmith says he never ate meat. Elizabeth Reynolds states that "he relished a dish of eels or an occasional pigeon pie" See NCL, 1911, pp. 45-6.

643. Tafel, II, 996; 514.

644. Benedict Chastanier, A Word of Advice to a Benighted World, London, 1795, p. 22. Chastanier formed the French society "Illuminés Theosophes," a kind of Masonic lodge based on New Church ideas. Tafel, II, 1176.

645. Tafel, II, 697-9. The incident possibly occurred in Denmark.

646. Tafel, II, 717-22; 1250. The anecdote is of questionable genuineness. See Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, Vol. xvi, p. 338, where it is stated that Porthan's journey to England took place in 1779, seven years too late for him to have seen Swedenborg alive.

647. See also New Documents concerning Swedenborg in NCL, 1916, p. 424 ff.

648. Ibid., pp. 428, 424-33. Cuno, pp. 7, 92, 93, 94; and Tafel, II, 561; I, 32, no. 3; 53.

649. "Il n'y a rein à gagner avec un Enthousiaste, il ne faut point s'aviser de dire á un homme les defaults de sa maitresse, n'y á un plaideur le foible de sa cause, n'y des raisons á un Illuminé." (A sect founded in southern France, about 1722.)

650. Tafel, II, 556-61.

651. Tafel, I, 701-5; 394.

652. See Early New Church Families in Sweden, by S. C. Odhner [Sigstedt] in NCL, 1938, pp. 304-9.

653. De Commercio Animae et Corporis, . . . (The Intercourse between the Soul and the Body), London, 1769. See nos. 1, 19, 20. Tafel, II, 1009.

654. Tafel, II, 522 ff. 655. Tafel, I, 3-5.

656. Quaestiones Novem de Trinitate . . . (Nine Questions concerning the Trinity), published by R. Hindmarsh, London, 1775.

657. Tafel, I, 5.

658. Tafel, II, 500 ff.

659. Tafel, I, 6-9.

660. The manuscript sent to Mr. Hartley by Swedenborg, and presumably given by Hartley to Messiter has been lost. See NCM, Boston, 1840, pp. 566-7. But a copy of it, in Swedenborg's hand, presumably the first draft, is in the Royal Library at Stockholm. It was probably found among the manuscripts left in Swedenborg's residence on Hornsgatan after his death, and thus came into the possession of Bishop Lars Benzelstierna, and through his daughter to her husband Count von Engström, whose library was subsequently given to the Royal Library.
This Appendix to the Treatise on the White Horse was formerly thought by some Swedish historians to have been presented by Swedenborg to the Swedish Academy of Sciences. But Dr. Alfred Acton in his article, Swedenborg and the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, in NCL, 1939, p. 396 ff., has conclusively shown that this was a misconception, arising from the fact that in this copy of his Appendix to the White Horse, Swedenborg uses the term vestra academia (your academy) which he later changed to vestra societas (your society). As Swedenborg was himself a member of the Academy of Sciences, would he not, if he intended it for them, have addressed them as nostro (our) academia? More potent still is the fact that there is no record of its ever being received by the Academy.
The Latin text was published by Librarian Klemming in his edition, Swedenborgs Drömmar, Stockholm, 1860, pp. 73-7. English translation in Tafel, II, 751-5. The only work known to us on the Correspondences of Egypt was written many years after Swedenborg's death, by C. Th. Odhner, Bryn Athyn, 1914.

HERESY TRIAL AT GOTHENBURG

661. Tafel, II, 306.

662. Tafel, II, 339, 344.

663. Göteborgska Spionen, No. 42 (The Gothenburg Inquirer), October 20, 1766, p. 329 ff. Nya Försök etc. ("Household Sermons") anon., by G. A. Beyer. See note 552.

664. New Documents, etc. NCL, 1916, p. 292.

665. Original in the Consistory Archives, Gothenburg. The complete evidence on the Gothenburg Trial will be found in typewritten transcripts in the Archives of the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa. See CLD and Hand lingar rörande Swedenborgianismen, 1769 (Minutes on Swedenborgianism), p. 3. See NCL, 1910, p. 223, and Tafel, II, 282 ff.

666. To Beyer. Tafel, II, 296-300.

667. See note 665.

668. NCL, 1916, p. 293-5.

669. Ibid., pp. 291-7; 361-4.

670. Tafel, II, 308-9.

671. Tidningar om lärda saker (Learned news), Tafel, II, 306.

672. G, VI, p. 579.

673. Tafel, I, 37.

674. Tafel, II, 371.

675. Tafel, II, 306. NCL, 1910, p. 234.

676. Tafel, II, 710 ff. Ten years later, after Filenius' death, some of the confiscated copies were discovered in a grocery store in Stockholm being used for wrapping paper! They were eventually secured by Christian Johanssen, who sent one copy to Bishop Charles Jesper Benzelius, second son of Erik Benzelius.

677. Tafel, II, 281.

678. Tafel, II, 310-316; TCR, 137.

679. Tafel, II, 316-17.

680. Tidningar om Lärda Saker (Learned news), 1769, II, 30, 31, 119, 120, 121, 179. Almänna tidningar (Public news), 22, p. 88, February 17, 1770; Tankar öfver den bekante Parti-Skrifwaren (Thoughts about the well-known writer), Gothenburg, 1770. Riksdagsmål, förra delen för år 1769 (News of the Diet), Upsala, pp. 80-81. Ur Posten (From the Post), no. 51, pp. 405411. No. 115, p. 913. Photostats of these in the library of the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa.

681. Min Son på Galejan . . . (My son upon the galley), 1769 (anonymous, by Jacob Wallenberg), p. 3.

682. Tankar och Roliga Berättelser i anledning of Herr Swedenborgs Samtal och Omgänge med Andarne, Stockholm, 1770. The only known copy of this rare pamphlet is in the Royal Library, Stockholm, "Biografi, Swedenborg." It had apparently not come to light in Dr. Tafel's time. Photostat and transcript in ACSD.

683. To Beyer. Tafel, II, 278-80. To Wenngren. Tafel, II, 321. Compare also a letter from the Countess von Schwerin containing a description of Swedenborg's having tested "a young Swede" who "felt himself called to be introduced into familiar intercourse with the spirits of the departed." Tafel, II, 682-3.

684. NCL, 1898, p. 107 ff.

685. In the University Library, Upsala.

686. To Anders Schönberg. Source as above. See NCL, 1925, pp. 90-91.

687. Tafel, I, 47.

688. Tafel, 1, 59-60. See especially the note there.

689. CL, 82.

690. Tafel, II, 726-35. The incident described is based on oral tradition and written by Dr. C. A. Wetterberg in his book Altartaflan (Altar Pictures), part II, pp. 457-67. As the account is unauthenticated I have taken the liberty of condensing it in slightly altered terms, to correct such facts as are better known now than when Dr. Wetterberg wrote his charming story.

691. Rosin's Aphorisms, Tafel, II, 356 ff. To a Senator. II, 359 ff.

692. Tafel, II, 323-45.

693. Minutes of Gothenburg Consistory. See note 665.

694. To Beyer. Tafel, II, 352-6.

695. Tafel, II, 371, 369 ff.

696. NCL, 1916, pp. 139 ff

697. Ibid., p. 147. Tafel, II, 355.

698. Tafel, II, 365 ff.

699. NCL, 1916, p. 149

700. Tafel, II, 373 ff.

701. A reference to Major-General

702. Tafel, II, 378-9.

703. Tafel, II, 380-81.

704. Tafel, II, 383.

705. See "Stockholmsposten," 1785, no. 27; "N. C. Messenger," 1870, Vol. 58. Sundelin, Swedenborgianismens Historia, p. 139 ff.

706. NCL, 1910, pp. 752-3.

707. Gabriel Andersson Beyer, Index Initialis in opera Swedenborgii theologica, Amsterdam, 1779. Tafel, II, 385-6; I, 623-6.

708. Tafel, I, 72; 11, 433.

THE LAST JOURNEY

709. TCR, no. 791. See also nos. 4, 108.

710. Tafel, II, 379-80.

711. Tafel, I, 389-90.

712. Bergskollegii Hufvudbok för år 1771. Transcript in ACSD. See also Zinzén, Svenska Linne Sällskapet, p. 92.

713. NKT, 1921, p. 171. It was here that Maria Berg various persons. Talel, I, 39, 36; II, 726.

714. Tafel, I, 38-9.

715. Tafel, II, 372.

716. Tafel, II, 431-40. The Danish original of Tuxen's letter to Augustus Nordenskiöld, May 8, 1790, is lost. See note 718. From 1742 until his death in 1792, Major-general Christian Tuxen was the secret agent of the King of Denmark to secure information on Russian affairs. See Emanuel Swedenborg, by Signe Toksvig, p. 327, and A. P. Tuxen, Slaegten Tuxen, Copenhagen, 1928. Tuxen was 77, in 1790.

In the list of members of the Exegetic-Philanthropic Society, in Magazin für die Neue Kirche, Vol. I, no. 2, p. 70, he is listed as: "M. de Tuxen, Général-Lieutenant et Grand Inspecteur de la Douane á Elsinore." Tafel, II, 1149.

717. Tafel, II, 439; II, 405-416.

718. Tafel, II, 437. The document continues: "I then craved his pardon if I had been too inquisitive. 
"He answered, ‘Ask whatever question you please, 1 shall answer in truth.
"I then inquired whether, in his youth he could keep free from temptations with regard to the sex?
"He replied, `Not altogether; in my youth I had a mistress in Italy."'

The passage is judged by Dr. Tafel to be not genuine for the reasons that: (1) the question could not with propriety have been discussed in the presence of the general's wife and young girls; (2) that Swedenborg never was in Italy in his youth, but in 1738, when he was fifty years old; and that (3) the Danish original of this document has been lost, a fact which lessens its authority, particularly as we have it only in the English version of Augustus Nordenskiöld, a man of questionable moral principles. His ideas admittedly introduced great confusion into the early organizations of the New Church. See Tafel, I, 628-30; 639-44. On the other hand, it is hard to think that Nordenskiöld would have dared to insert into a printed article a paragraph for which there was no foundation in the Danish original of the document he was translating. Particularly as Major-general Tuxen must have seen his letter printed in English in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, pp. 257-65. He was in close correspondence, then and later, with the disciples of Swedenborg and there is no indication that he took exception to any statement in the Nordenskiöld article. A more credible explanation might be that the old gentleman's memory failed him, in this as in several other instances, when he wrote the account of the conversation he had with Swedenborg twenty-two years previously. However, see also the testimony of Robsahm, Tafel, I, 43, no. 36.

719. "Not the statement of a megalomaniac, certainly," remarks Miss Toksvig, "and all the evidence of Swedenborg's contemporaries goes to show that he was free from such insanity." Op. cit., p. 329.

720. Cuno, p. 153 ff.

721. Ibid., p. 138.

722. Ibid., p. 160.

723. Coronis, seu Appendix ad Veram Christianam Religionem . . . ms. Swedenborg died before this work was finished. The ms. was posthumously published by A. Nordenskiöld at his own expense. See Cuno, pp. 159-161, and note no. 9, p. 161.

724. Ibid, pp. 164-7.

725. Compare TCR, no. 137 (7 and 12), concerning associate spirits.

726. Tafel, II, 486-9; 1163-4. Theorie der Geisterkunde (Theory of Pneumatology), by Dr. J. H. Jung (surnamed Stilling), Nuremberg, 1808. JungStilling later changed his good opinion and classed Swedenborg among the soothsayers, declaring that his communications with the other world were illicit and in violation of God's commands.

727. Sammlung einiger Nachrichten, Herrn Emanuel Swedenborg and desselben vorgegebenen Umgang mit dem Geisterreich betreffend, Hamburg, 1770.

728. Vollständige Einleitung in die Religion and Theologie, Tübingen, 1767, by Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm. Vol. IV, p. 209 ff.

729. Neue Theologische Bibliothek, edited by Dr. Johan Ernesti, 1770, p. 874.

730. See NCL, 1912, p. 204. We use Prof. Odhner's picturesque language!

731. CL, Introduction.

732. Tafel, I, 58. See NCL, 1912, pp. 197, 205.

733. We have given Swedenborg's printed version, which differs slightly from the ms. text. See Tafel, II, 384. Copy of the printed version in RL. Photostat in ACSD.

734. Cuno, 173-5.

735. The copy of Vera Christiana Religio containing the "List of Valuables," now in the possession of the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa., was originally owned by Bishop Lars Benzelstjerna, one of Swedenborg's heirs. It was purchased for the Academy at the auction of Baron Taube, Benzelstjerna's son-in-law. "Swedenborg's heirs searched in vain for those treasures," said Carl Daleen, who once owned the copy. See NCL, 1891, p. 83 and Tafel, II, 747-8. The Swedish text of the list was printed by G. E. Klemming, as an appendix to his edition Swedenborgs Drömmar, Stockholm, 1860, pp. 78-9.

"List of Valuables"

"1. A, beautiful red chest, consisting of five rows, five drawers in each row.
2. A handsome dress - a handsome cap.
3. A little crown with five small diamonds, which is worn in heaven on one side of the head.
4. A beautiful little rose containing a very brilliant diamond which later was set in a golden ring.
5. A tiara, or decoration for the head.
6. A necklace of diamonds. A pendant of gold with a diamond.
7. A bracelet of diamonds.
8. Earrings of three diamonds each side.
9. A box in a casket wherein are shining crystals, signifying regeneration to eternity.
10. Something precious in the hand, which was placed in a beautiful box on the twenty-eighth of November, 1770.
11. A jewelled pendant containing a beautiful diamond.
12. A handsome hat for me.
13. Something precious which can not be seen by spirits but only by angels, May twenty-eighth, 1771. A cane with a beautiful gold knob, on August 13, 1771."
(The hat and the cane were obviously for Swedenborg himself. Who would wear the earrings; tiara, and other jewels?)

THE SERVANT OF THE LORD

736. Vera Christiana Religio . . . Amsterdam, 1771. 737. Tafel, II, 261.

738. The anecdote is taken from Shearsmith's account, Tafel, II, 548-9. He says that Swedenborg's words were: "Dat be he!" As it is inconceivable that a scholar who has lived many years in London and was trained in the English language from early youth should have so corrupted the grammar, we must attribute the corruption to Mr. Shearsmith's effort to reproduce Swedenborg's broken accent. The same applies to his last words, "Dat be good." See p. 433. Tafel, II, 548-9.

739. Tafel, II, 558-9.

740. Tafel, II, 528-33; 1146-7.

741. Tafel, II, 500 ff.

742. Tafel, II, 577.

743. See NJM, 1885, IV, pp. 371-92.

744. Tafel, II, 530.

745. See Chapter XXXIII, and Invitation, VII, 44. See note 756.

746. Tafel, II, 696, 1243-5. "The Lord cannot enlighten anyone with His light unless He is approached immediately and acknowledged as the God of Heaven" Posthumous Theol. Works, New York, 1914, I, p. 133.

747. Taf el, II, 1212 ff.

748. Tafel, II, 564-71. The original text of this letter is not extant.

749. Tafel, II, 567. Benedict Harford's report of Samuel Smith's testimony.

750. Tafel, II, 546.

751. Tafel, II, 579-80. Compare II, 507.

752. Tafel, II, 515-16.

753. Coronis, seu Appendix ad Veram Christianam Religionem . . . ms. See Tafel, II, 1021. Transl. in Post. Theol. Works, I. (Coronis means a flourish used in ancient manuscripts to indicate the end of a chapter. Webster.)

754. Tafel, II, 557-8, 563, 538, 579-80.

755. NJM, 1885, p. 371 ff.

756. De Consummatione Saeculi . . . (The Consummation of the Age, the Lord's Second Coming, and the New Church, to which is added an Invitation to that Church made to the whole Christian World). In Posthumous Theological Works, I, New York, 1914, p. 122 (LX, X). See also p. 136, no. 43. Tafel, II, 853.

Epilog:

757. Tafel, II, 557, 541. New Documents concerning Swedenborg, NJM, 1885, pp. 371-392.

758. Tafel, II, 549 ff.; I, 393 ff. The cane and the table on which Swedenborg wrote are now preserved in the Swedenborg Society, London.

759. Tafel, I, 389-90.

760. The Gentleman's Magazine, London, April, 1772, p. 198.
The Monthly Magazine, London, 1772.
Leipziger Zeitung, 1772, no. 82.
Dageliga Tidningar, Stockholm, 1772, no. 92, p. 2.

761. Tafel, II, 1166-7. See Appendix G.

762. Concerning Miracles, in Posthumous Theological Works, New York, 1914, p. 141 ff.

763. Tafel, II, 1212 ff. Extracts from Wesley's Journals, April, 1779. Part xviii, p. 99. See Tafel, II, pp. 570-71.

764. Arminian Magazine, 1781, Jan.; 1783, vol. vi, p. 437; 1796.

765. Tafel, II, 564-612.

766. Tafel, II, 572-81, 507.

767. The Shearsmith Affidavit, Nov. 24, 1785. Tafel, II, 577 ff.

768. Tafel, II, 592 ff.

769. Tafel, I, 701-3; II, 538, 610.
Mathesius was suspended from office and returned to Sweden, where he was retired on a pension. Compare W. White, Em. Swedenborg, His Life and Writings, London, 1867. Concerning White's biography of 1867, Dr. R. L. Tafel says: "Hostility against the organized New Church warped his whole presentation of the intellectual and moral character of Swedenborg . . ;' (Tafel, II, 1329). See the article, "Mr. William White," p. 1284 ff., contrasting White's affirmative biography of 1856 with his later derogatory Life of 1867, and the reasons for the complete somersault of this "literary Vertumnus."
Emil A. G. Kleen, Swedenborg, en Levnadsskildring, Stockholm, 1917. In Dr. Kleen's book the physician's purpose is to prove that Swedenborg suffered for twenty-eight years from a typical case of paranoia. Dr. Kleen admitted, however, that, as far as Swedenborg's doctrines were concerned, "they possess decided advantages over all the great Christian orthodoxies." Quite a feat for an insane person to have achieved! Time seems to have justified the reviewer who thought it likely that this book was destined to play a very small role in the discussion of the Swedish seer. See Knut Barr, Swedenborgs Drömmar, 1744, Stockholm, 1924, p. 112 (dedicated to H. Berndt Santesson and Alfred H. Stroh).
Dr. Lamm considers it an open question whether every person who thinks that he is in touch with a supernatural world must necessarily be considered deranged. This, as Frederika Ehrenborg also pointed out, would be to include such persons as Martin Luther and Saint Birgitta. (What of the sanity of our present generation which - without considering supernatural forces - is preparing weapons for mass extermination?)

770. Tafel, II, 592.

771. Sandels, Samuel, Åminnelsetal över ... Swedenborg, Stockholm, 1772. Tafel, I, 12-29.

772. To Pehr Wargentin. Tafel, I, 633. See II, 439, 405-6. Letters of von Höpken to C. Tuxen.`

773. To Tuxen. Tafel, II, 414. To a Friend. Tafel, II, 415-16. Compare Von Höpken's statement about the suitability of Swedenborg's teachings for purposes of colonization (Appendix H) with the opinion of Claes Alströmer (see p. 403). Charles Bernard Wadström actually began the establishment of a colony at Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa, where Augustus Nordenskiöld met with an untimely death. (Tafel, I, 645, 642 ff.)

774. Samlingar för Philanthroper, Stockholm, 1787.

775. Tafel, I, 640 ff.

776. See NCL, 1938, p. 304 ff., and Int. Swedenborg Congress, 1910, p. 150, Hjalmar Kylén, Some Indications of Swedenborg's Inftuence on Swedish and German Thought.

777. Marquis de Thomé to Nordenskiöld. In the archives of the Swedenborg Society, London, among the Hyde Mss.
Beyer to Nordenskiöld. In the Royal Library, Stockholm, among the Nordenskiöld archives.
Johansen to Nordenskiöld. In the Royal Library, Stockholm, among the Swedenborg Collections, no. A.604.

777a. Tafel, II, 712 ff. See Appendix J.

778. N. C. Herald, London, 1938, p. 75 et al.