The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-06


In q trance without any sustenanoe and
came to himself again. AT suoh times
he desired to be left alone. telling his
landlord not 10 be troubled as all would
be well. On his eliminating work. the
1True Christian Religion he labored
indefatigably day and night. .Notwith-
standing his enormous > productivenees
his composition was neither loose nor
careless. It Is ALDO noteworthy that
when writing during his later years, when
he declared that he wrote under the do
tation of q higher power, he used no aids
beyond the Bible and his own carefully
prepared induces OF his former works.
His manifold writings produced In Eng
land and in Holland we're published en-
tirely at his own expense. though the cost
Of printing one Of his preceding works
was borne by the. Duke Of Brunswick.
He lever gained a farthing from the sale
Of the books which he believed himself
inspired to write. He gave them to the
booksellers, who charged for them what
ever they could get. it y obi.
1t would be impossible TO imagine O
more simple and unworldly man than
S~wedenborg. Though he enjoyed an in
come which for him was ample he did not
spend it On himself hut was content with
the barest n~eoessasies OF, life, He was
30 trustful Of others that he would send
his landlord to q drawer In which he kept
money to help himself to what he needed.
At his death he left no win and little
property. In his later years he always
travelled alone. He told Cuno that he had
no need Of Al attendant. as his angel
was always with him. Wherever he ven
he was beloved, and people said that he
brought them good fortune. Sea captains
averred that they always had prosperous
voyages when he was on board.
There is ne evidence OF bodily or mental
decadence until within q few weeks Of
his death, except that once he suffered
from fever, with usual accompaniment
of delirium. He enjoyed, " says Sandels,
"a most excellent state Of bodily health,
having scarcely " been indisposed."
The records OF the Royal College of Mines
show that his attendance was regular
sional brief illnesses, apparently colds.
Incompatible with the theory Of senile
decay is the fact previously mentioned
that he constantly travelled alone, and
did 30 we on his last journey. which
he began in his eighty-third year. The
closing Genes Of his life we're in keeping
with it's normal peaceful tenor. Some
time before his death he foretold the
date to his landlady and to the msidser-
ant who waited on him. The latter re-
marked that he seemed as pleased at the
prospect -as II he was going to have a
holiday to go to some merrymaking.'
v.
What signs Of eeership or Of super
natural power were given by Sweden
Christian Religion was the outcome Of
inspiration and Of intercourse with the
spiritual world? He never awaited HIM
self OF any such signs for that purpose.
Or tho contrary no seldom referred to
the proofs OF his extraordinary powers
and refused to confirm his mission by
such q Prelatc oetinger wrote:
That Swedenborg has knowledge of
hidden occurrehcesi has been denon-
strate4 by well attested instances, but
he is ~indisposed to avail himself Of them
to procure assent and credibility for his
writings Even when appealed to by
anxious persons for information about
their deceased friends though tho. per-
royal houses-he kindly. but firmly de-
clinei to satisfy them unless there was
some special reason for his doing 30.
New ertheloss there arc many verified
records of remarkable revelations made
by him to different persons in the course
Of his life. Marvellous as these revela-
tions appeared to onlookers. he did not
himself regard them as in any way miracu-
lous, but simply as indications OF the
reality OF his converse with the spiritual
world. these must by no means he
said. be regarded as miracles. for they
are merely testimonies that I have been
introduced by the Lord into the spiritual
world and hal convers there with
angels and spirits in order that the Church,
which hitherto has remained In ignor-
apce concerning that world, may know
that heaven and he'll really exist and
that man lives after death a man as be-
fore. and that thus no doubts may flow
into his mind in respect to his immor-
taiity.' s., 20;
Three instances where S~wedenborg
had intercourse with spirits were made
the subject Of special investigation by
the contemporary philosopher Kant and
accepted by him a. authentic. These
are the stories Of his disclosing to Queen
Louisa Ulrica OF Sweden the nature OF a
secret that had existed between herself
and her deceased brother. the Crown
Prince Augustus William Of Prussia; his
description Of a destructive fire that was
raging in Stockh ohm while. he himself
was at Gothenburg, and his revealing to
the widow Of M. De M%arteville. formerly
Dutch Ambassador at Stockholm. the
hiding place Of a missing receipt for money
paid by her late husband. The first of
these incidents is related by Count Hop
ken. It seems that one day when Sweden
borg was at q court reception her Majesty
asked him whether in the other life he had
seen or talked with. her deceased brother.
the Prince Royal. Of Prussia. He an
swered no. whereupon her Majesty re-
quested him on his next visit to ask after
her brother and give him her greeting.
At the next court reception ~Swedenborg
again appeared and approached her
Majesty. who no longer remembered the
commission she had entrusted to him.
swedenborg not only greeted her from her
brother. but also. presented her brothers
$500 L. H.