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EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 
 
 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD 
 
 A TRUE STORY 
 FOR THE YOUNG 
 
 C. TH. ODHNER 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
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 THIS "BRIEF ACCOUNT OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 
 IS 'DEDICATED 
 
 TO ANY YOUNG READER IT mAY FIND, 
 
 IN THE HOPE THAT IT CM AY ASSIST IN AWAKENING IN 
 
 HIM OR HER A ^DESIRE FOR FURTHER KNOWLEDGE 
 
 OF THIS WONDERFUL SERVANT OF THE LORD, 
 
 AND OF THE [MANY GLORIOUS THINGS 
 
 WHICH HAVE "BEEN REVEALED 
 
 THROUGH HIM 
 
 FOR THE CROWN OF CHURCHES. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 I. His Childhood and Youth page 9 
 
 Sweden and the Swedes ; Emanuel Swedenborg born 29 
 Jan. 1688; his father, Jesper Swedberg ; Emanuel's Child- 
 hood ; his Mother's Death ; his Education. 
 
 II. His Travels and Early Works, 20 
 
 His First Foreign Journey ; his Studies in England ; 
 Returning Home ; Charles XII. ; Emanuel in favor with 
 the King ; his Services to the King ; Emerentia Polheim ; 
 his Earliest Writings. 
 
 III. SWEDENBORG AS A SCIENTIST AND PHILOSOPHER,. . . 35 
 
 Brighter Times ; Swedenborg as a Patriot ; his First 
 Great Works in Science; the " Principia;" the Purpose 
 of his Studies ; a long Journey ; his Works on the Hu- 
 man Body ; his Search for the Soul. 
 
 IV. The Opening of his Spiritual Sight 46 
 
 Remarkable Dreams and Signs ; the Lord reveals Him- 
 self to Swedenborg ; the Vision in the Inn ; Promise of 
 the Lord's Second Coming; the State of the Christian 
 World ; why the Lord came again ; the Spiritual World 
 opened to Swedenborg; Swedenborg's Inspiration. 
 
EMANUEL SlVEDENBORG 
 
 V. SWEDENBORG THE REVELATOR, 57 
 
 The Arcana Coelestia ; the Spiritual World ; the World 
 of Spirits; Hell and its life of Misery; Heaven and its 
 life of Happiness ; Other Writings of the New Church. 
 
 VI. A Visit to Swedenborg, 67 
 
 The Fire in Stockholm ; the Queen's Secret; Sweden- 
 borg's Home; his Study; his Garden; Swedenborg-'s 
 Appearance; his Personal Habits; his Last Days; his 
 Death. 
 
 VII. SWEDENBORG'S RULES OF LIFE 95 
 
 Appendix I. Children in Heaven, 97 
 
 Appendix II. List of References, 112 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Map of Southern Sweden and Norway,. . . .facing title 
 
 View of Stockholm page 10 
 
 Bishop Jesper Swedberg, Swedenborg's Father, ... 13 
 
 View of Upsala in Swedenborg's Time, 15 
 
 Ericus Benzelius, Swedenborg's Instructor, .... 18 
 
 Charles XII., the "Madman of the North,". ... 25 
 
 Christopher Polheim, 30 
 
 Ulrica Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, 34 
 
 Emanuel Swedenborg in 1734, 38 
 
 Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) 42 
 
 Emanuel Swedenborg in 1766, 56 
 
 View of the Royal Palace in Stockholm 69 
 
 Swedenborg's House and Garden 77 
 
 Swedenborg's Summer House 81 
 
 Swedenborg in his Parlor, 87 
 
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 
 
 His Childhood and Youth 
 
 Away up in the most northern part &fc>e&en and 
 of Europe there is a land of great for- 
 ests and wide lakes, of rushing rivers and 
 fertile plains, of mountains rich in iron and 
 copper, — a land where the snow lies deep 
 and the days are short in the winter, but 
 where there is no night in summer time. 
 It is a land of beauty, poetry, and song, 
 where dwells a free-born race of people, 
 brave and hardy, both men and women tall 
 and strong, with flaxen hair, blue eyes, and 
 bright complexion. The beautiful city of 
 Stockholm is the capital of this country. 
 It is built partly on islands and partly on 
 the mainlands to the north and south ; to 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 
 
 10 
 
 the east and west it is surrounded by thou- 
 sands of islets, green and smiling on the 
 rippling waters. 
 
 STOCKHOLM 
 
 €manuef Here, on the twenty-ninth of January, 
 
 born 29 fan., in the year 1688, a little boy was born, 
 a child who in the merciful Providence 
 of the Lord was raised up to serve his 
 Divine Master and all mankind by the most 
 wonderful and glorious work that ever has 
 been given any man to do. 
 
II HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 
 
 To this child was given the name Eman- 
 uel, which signifies God-with-us, for his fa- 
 ther hoped that God would be ever with 
 the boy and he with God ; and truly this 
 Emanuel showed himself worthy of his 
 name. Throughout his life he walked hum- 
 bly with God, and in the sacred volumes 
 which he wrote God speaks again with man 
 and teaches them the real meaning of the 
 Word. This was the mission of his life : 
 to act as the Lord's intelligent and willing 
 scribe in writing down and publishing the 
 Lord's own explanation of the Scriptures. 
 The Doftrine which is taught in the books 
 which he wrote is known as the " Heavenly 
 Doctrine of the New Jerusalem," and the 
 Church which believes in it as the Lord's 
 own teachings is called "the New Church." 
 The reason it is so called is because the 
 Do6lrine itself is something entirely new in 
 the history of the Christian Church i\nd 
 it will remain "new" forever, because no 
 matter how much men may study this Doc- 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 12 
 
 trine in ages to come they will always dis- 
 cover new truths in it, new light from the 
 Sun of Heaven shedding its glorious rays 
 on the life of man in this world and in the 
 world to come. Thus we will learn to do 
 our Father's will as it is done in Heaven, 
 and thus, by this Doftrine, the Lord will 
 " make all things new." When you come 
 to understand this, you will see for your- 
 selves how great was the service for which 
 this little boy Emanuel was born and raised 
 up. 
 
 K@s£ father, Emanuel's father, Jesper Swedberg, 
 
 Sleeper &t»efci~ 
 
 bcr0 was a very learned, wise and God-fear- 
 
 ing man, who, when this story begins, was 
 the chaplain or court-preacher to the king 
 of Sweden. He was a true and faithful 
 minister of God, who preached the Word 
 mightily and fearlessly, flattering neither the 
 king nor the people. But the king, Charles 
 XL, liked his brave preacher all the better, 
 and made him his trusted friend and coun- 
 sellor. Jesper Swedberg was also a great 
 
BISHOP JESPER SVVEDBERG, SWEDENBORG'S FATHER 
 BORN 1655, DIED 1735 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 14 
 
 writer ; he translated the whole Bible from 
 the Hebrew into Swedish, composed beau- 
 tiful hymns, and wrote a great many reli- 
 gious books, in which he cried out against 
 the evils of the people and against the false 
 belief that men could be saved by faith 
 alone without good works. But in spite of 
 his plain speaking he became one of the 
 greatest men in the kingdom, and his name 
 is one of the most honored in the history 
 of Sweden. 
 €mamtef£ When Emanuel was four years old, 
 
 his parents moved to Upsala, where his 
 father became a professor of theology and 
 superintendent of the great university in 
 that city. The little boy now began to 
 show that he was different, in some ways, 
 from other children. He seemed to be con- 
 stantly thinking about God, heaven, and 
 spiritual things, and sometimes said things 
 so astonishing, that his father and mother 
 would say that angels must be speaking 
 through his mouth. Ministers and learned 
 
15 
 
 HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 
 
 UPSALA IN SWEDENBORG'S TIME 
 
 men often came to visit his father, and 
 little Emanuel always liked to talk with 
 them about "love and faith," saving that love 
 is the first and highest of all things, and that 
 faith would come to him who loves. And 
 yet he was at the same time a lively little 
 fellow, full of fun and play, like all healthy 
 children. 
 
 When he was eight years old a great \$i$ jteotbct's 
 sorrow fell upon him, for his loving 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 16 
 
 mother died, leaving him behind with all 
 his little brothers and sisters. Still, though 
 he could see her no longer, he did not 
 really lose her, for the angels always re- 
 main near those whom they had loved in 
 this world, and strive to make them think 
 about the Lord and the life in heaven. 
 Thus, no doubt, Emanuel was led to think 
 all the more about the spiritual world, and 
 in time the Lord gave him a great know- 
 ledge on this subje6l, and allowed him to 
 meet his mother in the other life. 
 
 Nor was he left long without a mother's 
 care, even in this world, for after a time 
 his father married again, and his new mo- 
 ther w^as a very kind and gentle lady, who 
 became a true mother to her many little 
 step-children. She was also quite wealthy, 
 and when she died, many years afterwards, 
 she left a great deal of her money to Eman- 
 uel, who thus could afford to travel much 
 in foreign lands, and to print the many and 
 costly books which the Lord commanded 
 
11 HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 
 
 him to write for the use of the New 
 Church. 
 
 In the year 1703, the king appointed ^ €bucatlon 
 Jesper Swedberg to the office of Bishop 
 in the city of Skara (he was also Bishop 
 of the Swedish churches in the colonies of 
 " New Sweden," which were situated on the 
 banks of the Delaware river in North Amer- 
 ica). Emanuel was now left in Upsala in 
 order to finish his education at the college 
 and the university, and he lived during this 
 time with his elder sister, who had married 
 Dr. Eric Benzelius, one of the most learned 
 men in Europe, who finally became arch- 
 bishop of Sweden. This brother-in-law of 
 his took the place of a " second father" to 
 Emanuel, who received a thoroughly good 
 education from him and other famous teach- 
 ers. We know but little of his life while 
 at school, but it is clear that he was a 
 quick and diligent student, or he would not 
 have been able to write, soon afterwards, 
 with so much learning and good judgment 
 
ERICUS BENZELIUS, SWEDENBORG'S INSTRUCTOR 
 BORN 1675, DIED 1743 
 
19 HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 
 
 on so great a variety of subje<5ts. He stud- 
 ied especially the great philosophers of an- 
 cient Greece and Rome, and from them, 
 and from the Word of God, he learned to 
 think clearly. This ability is not so com- 
 mon as might be supposed, but it has al- 
 ways been found more pra6lically useful 
 than the greatest amount of memorized book- 
 learning. When, in the year 1709, he fin- 
 ished his course at the university, he was 
 considered by his professors a well-prepared 
 and talented young man, from whom great 
 things were expected. As we will see, he 
 did not disappoint his teachers. 
 
II 
 
 His Travels and Early Works 
 
 ©is Jfirst if or- Emanuel Swedberg was now twenty - 
 
 eion f ournep t , \ • t ., ,1 , , 
 
 one years of age, and his father thought 
 
 it would be well to let him travel abroad 
 for some years, in order to study at the 
 great universities in England, Holland, 
 France, and Germany, where he could also 
 perfect his knowledge of the foreign lan- 
 guages, and become acquainted with a wider 
 world than Sweden. And so in September, 
 1 710, he started out on his first foreign jour- 
 ney, travelling by sea from Gottenburg to 
 London. 
 
 If he had hoped for a lively time, he 
 certainly had enough of it on this trip, for 
 he was near losing his life not less than 
 
 four times. First his ship was nearly wrecked 
 
 20 
 

 21 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 on some hidden rocks ; then it was chased 
 by Danish pirates ; next it was fired on by 
 an English man-of-war, which mistook it 
 for one of the pirate-boats ; and finally, when 
 the young traveller arrived in London, he 
 came near being hanged bv the government 
 there. It happened that a pestilence was 
 raging in Sweden at this time, and as the 
 Londoners still remembered the terrible 
 plague of 1665, thev had made it a law that 
 all travellers- from Sweden must remain in 
 quarantine on their ships for six weeks be- 
 fore landing, or be punished bv instant 
 death. The young Swede had never heard 
 of this new law, and so he went ashore 
 right away, but was arrested at once, and 
 would really have been hanged if the Swed- 
 ish ambassador had not helped him out of 
 his trouble. 
 
 In spite of this inhospitable reception m$ Studies 
 Emanuel Swedberg fell greatly in love 
 with the English people and their free in- 
 stitutions. The love of freedom was bred 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 22 
 
 into his very bones, for he came of the only 
 people in Europe which had not allowed it- 
 self to be oppressed by the nobility during 
 the Dark Ages. Nevertheless, just at this 
 time the king had gained all power in 
 Sweden and could do what he pleased, 
 while the English, not very long before, 
 had deposed that evil despot, James II., who 
 had tried to force the Roman Catholic 
 Church upon the people. Now there was 
 freedom in England, greater freedom than 
 in any other country, freedom of thought 
 and of speech, and freedom for each one to 
 worship God in the way of his own con- 
 science. 
 
 On account of this freedom the English 
 had greater spiritual light than any other 
 nation ; a great interest in all kinds of study 
 and science had lately grown up in England, 
 and greater teachers were to be found there 
 than anywhere else in Europe. This was 
 therefore the best possible place for a studi- 
 ous young man, and so Emanuel Swedberg 
 
23 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 remained two whole years in England, dili- 
 gently studying astronomy, chemistry, phys- 
 ics, mathematics, and other sciences. He 
 always took his lodgings in the houses of 
 various mechanics, and learned from them 
 the latest improvements in machinery and 
 in the art of making scientific instruments. 
 He was wide awake to everything that 
 might be of use to his own countrymen, 
 and studied and worked so hard that he 
 nearly fell ill. Then, to rest and amuse 
 himself, he took to writing poetry in the 
 Latin tongue. This would be considered 
 hard work by any student nowadays, but 
 Emanuel Swedberg felt rather ashamed of 
 such " child's play." 
 
 From England he travelled to Hoi- Returning 
 land, and was present at the great 
 " Peace Conference " in the city of Utrecht, 
 where representatives from nearly all the 
 countries in Europe had assembled to settle 
 the long and bloody " War of the Spanish 
 Succession " (a quarrel as to who should be 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 24 
 
 the king of Spain). He then went to Paris, 
 where he remained nearly a year, continu- 
 ing his scientific studies, examining libraries 
 and workshops, becoming acquainted with 
 learned and famous men, and making every 
 possible use of his time. He next visited 
 various universities in Germany, and finally, 
 just as a new war broke out, managed to 
 get home to Sweden after an absence of 
 four years. 
 ^ r <> vii There were now bad times in Swe- 
 
 den, as bad as they could be. The good 
 king Charles XL, Jesper Swedberg's friend, 
 had died in 1697, and his son, Charles XII., 
 was only a boy when he came to the throne. 
 The young king was one of the most re- 
 markable persons in history. Very tall and 
 of great physical strength, brave as a lion in 
 battle, quick to understand and to plan, and 
 gifted with many talents which might have 
 made him a blessing to his country and to 
 the whole world, he nevertheless ruined both 
 himself and his people by his insane obstin- 
 
CHARLES XII., "THE MADMAN OF THE NORTH 
 BORN 1682, DIED I7l8 
 
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 26 
 
 acy and self-will, by his revengefulness and 
 hellish lust for war and dominion over the 
 earth. When he w r as only sixteen years of 
 age, Russia, Poland, and Denmark declared 
 war against him at one and the same time, 
 but young as he was he crushed all his 
 enemies with lightning speed, although the 
 opposing armies outnumbered his own ten 
 to one. Soon he came to be considered the 
 wonder of the age, the greatest hero in the 
 world, and if he now had been willing to 
 make peace he could have made Sweden 
 one of the most powerful nations in Europe. 
 But he never had enough of fighting, and 
 when he attacked Russia without a just 
 cause, in the year 1708, he was wounded 
 in a battle, his army was beaten and cap- 
 tured by Czar Peter the Great, and he 
 himself had to flee to Turkey. His people 
 now begged him to come back to Sweden ; 
 but for an answer he sent home one of his 
 old boots, saying that this was a good 
 enough king for the Swedes. But he al- 
 
27 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 ways wanted more money and new armies, 
 and so in time he utterly ruined his coun- 
 try. No money was left in the land, the 
 young men and the horses were nearly all 
 killed, and the women had to drag the 
 plows and till the fields. Finally, when 
 beaten everywhere, he had to return to 
 Sweden in 171 5, but right away he began 
 to prepare for a new war against Denmark. 
 
 Such were the conditions in Sweden €manuei m 
 u t? 1 c 11 u 1 fatoor ton* tfce 
 
 when bmanuel Swedberg came back to Mm 
 
 his home. His learning and talents were 
 now made known to the king, who was not 
 slow to make use of him. Charles XII. 
 was especially fond of mathematics and me- 
 chanical arts ; and as young Swedberg had 
 made some great inventions while abroad, 
 and had become one of the best mathema- 
 ticians of that time he became quite a fa- 
 vorite with the king, who appointed him to 
 the office of an "Assessor " at the College 
 of Mines. This did not mean that he was 
 to be a teacher in a school, but he was to 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 28 
 
 assist in supervising the work of mining in 
 Sweden, and to show the miners the best 
 methods of getting the ore out of the moun- 
 tains, and how to smelt it so as to make 
 pure iron or copper. He became very skil- 
 ful in this useful art, and wrote some great 
 works about it. 
 i^i* services to But he was not yet to begin his 
 
 work as " Assessor," for the king com- 
 manded him to assist the great engineer, 
 Christopher Polheim, in building a great 
 canal from Stockholm to Gottenburg, right 
 across Sweden. This canal was not com- 
 pleted until more than a hundred years 
 afterwards, but there is still a sluice near 
 the great falls of Trollhattan, which is 
 called " the Swedenborg sluice." Then, when 
 Charles XII. declared war against Denmark 
 and marched against Norway (which at that 
 time was a Danish province), Emanuel Swed- 
 berg did a great service to the king by con- 
 structing a contrivance by which a number 
 of warships were dragged seventeen miles 
 
29 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 over land and mountains, and thereby were 
 saved from capture by the enemy. 
 
 During this period he lived at the Emerentia 
 house of his friend Polheim, who had a ™ 
 
 very pretty young daughter, Emerentia, with 
 whom Emanuel Swedberg was deeply in 
 love. The young couple became engaged, 
 and the father gave the young man a writ- 
 ten promise that Emerentia should be his 
 wife as soon as she would come of age. 
 But the young lady, who was only sixteen 
 years old, changed her mind, and fell in love 
 with another gentleman, a young officer 
 whose head was not so full of mathematics 
 and scientific inventions. She now began 
 to sigh and worry so much about her en- 
 gagement that her brother took pity on her 
 and one day stole the written marriage- 
 promise from the desk in which it was kept. 
 The theft was soon discovered, and Polheim 
 commanded his son to return the paper, but 
 Emanuel refused to take it, declaring that 
 he would never marry any girl against her 
 
CHRISTOPHER POLHE1M 
 BORN \66\, DIED 1751 
 
31 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 own free will, and so the engagement came 
 to an end. 
 
 This was the last time he looked for a 
 wife in this world. It was his sad lot to 
 live alone his whole life long, without a 
 loving partner or children of his own. This 
 must have been hard to bear, for he was 
 always exceedingly fond of little children 
 and of the company of refined women, but 
 it is said that many years afterwards while 
 he still lived in this world, he found the 
 angel w r ife in heaven with whom he was to 
 live to all eternity. 1 * 
 
 Turning sadly from all thoughts of $$ earliest 
 love he now sought consolation in still 
 greater work and stud) 7 , for the advance- 
 ment of science and the good of his country. 
 We may gain some idea of his diligence and 
 learning from the fa<5t that he wrote not less 
 than twenty-one different works within the 
 
 * The authority for this, and for some other statements 
 made in this work, will be found in Appendix II., see pp. 
 112, 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 32 
 
 next five years. Most of these were only 
 small books, it is true, but they were on a 
 great variety of subjects, all of which re- 
 quired much study as well as practical know- 
 ledge. Thus he wrote accounts of his vari- 
 ous mechanical inventions and scientific dis- 
 coveries, such as the construftion of air- 
 pumps, ear-tubes, and flying-machines, on 
 the methods of mining and smelting ore, on 
 the building of sluices and canals, on the 
 nature of fire and color, on the manufafture 
 of salt, on the regulation of the coinage, 
 and on various astronomical, geological, and 
 mathematical subje6ls, ending up this period 
 of his aftivity with a highly interesting little 
 work on Tremnlation, in which he shows that 
 all our sensations are produced by little vib- 
 rations in the skins and membranes of the 
 body. Most of these little works were writ- 
 ten in the Swedish language, but all the 
 books which he published afterwards were 
 written in Latin. 
 
 All these works might have been of great 
 
33 HIS TRAVELS AND EARLY WORKS 
 
 use to his countrymen, but the people were 
 at this time too much worried with poverty, 
 war, famine, and every kind of distress, to 
 pay attention to his writings and discoveries ; 
 and w^hen his great friend, Charles XII., 
 "the madman of the North," was killed in 
 1 71 8, Emanuel Swedberg felt greatly dis- 
 couraged, and for a while he thought of 
 leaving Sweden in order to seek a home in 
 some happier land. 
 
ULRICA ELEONORA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN 
 BORN 1688, DIED 1741 
 
Ill 
 
 Swedenborg as a Scientist and Philosopher 
 
 But as he waited patiently, brighter %x\%Wt 
 times came both for Sweden and for 
 himself. The new ruler, queen Ulrica Eleo- 
 nora, the sister of Charles XII., was a good 
 and sensible woman, who stopped the war, 
 restored freedom, and looked after the real 
 welfare of the country. She now reward- 
 ed the long and faithful services of Bishop 
 Swedberg and his son by raising the family 
 to the rank of nobility. According to the 
 Swedish custom the family now changed its 
 name from Swedberg to Swedenborg. This 
 name is not derived from " Sweden," but 
 from a word which means a clearing in the 
 forest. From this time on, Emanuel Swed- 
 berg was known as Emanuel Sivedenborg. 
 
 35 
 
EMANUEL SJVEDENBORG 36 
 
 ^toebenfrottt ^ s ^ e h ea d °^ a n °ble family, Eman- 
 
 a? a patriot ue l now had the right to a seat and 
 vote in the " House of Nobles" of the Swed- 
 ish Diet or Congress, corresponding to the 
 House of Lords in the English Parliament. 
 His new honor did not make him proud, 
 however, but inspired him with a still 
 greater desire to be of use to his fellow- 
 citizens. With him the love of country was 
 next to the love of God, but he always held 
 that liberty, enlightenment, and virtue were 
 greater blessings for a country than war, 
 conquest, and glory. As a member of the 
 Diet his voice was therefore always in favor 
 of peace, reform, and education, and he 
 proposed many measures which helped to 
 develop the suffering trade, manufactures, 
 and finances of Sweden. Among other 
 things he suggested a plan for regulating 
 and restricting the manufacture and sale of 
 strong liquors; his proposition was adopted 
 many years afterwards, and has helped to 
 
37 SCIENTIST AND PHILOSOPHER 
 
 decrease the drunkenness which used to be 
 
 dreadfully common in Sweden. 
 
 In the year 1721 Swedenborg again $is first great 
 1 1 1 c c ■ WziU on 
 
 left Stockholm for a new foreign journey. Science 
 
 He travelled first to Holland, where he 
 published several new books ; the most im- 
 portant of these was a work on chemistry, 
 in which he explains in an entirely new 
 way the formation of crystals and the form 
 of the finest particles which compose the 
 various substances in the mineral kingdom. 
 He next went to Germany, where he exam- 
 ined a great number of mines, and pub- 
 lished another scientific work. 
 
 Returning home, he now remained M ^ , 
 in Stockholm eleven years, working in 
 the College of Mines, attending the Diet, and 
 preparing a great work treating of the be- 
 ginnings of all natural things. This book is 
 known as the Principia, a truly magnificent 
 work, in which he gives an altogether new 
 explanation of the manner in which this 
 earth and all other planets were created 
 
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG IN 1734 
 
39 SCIENTIST ANT) PHILOSOPHER 
 
 from the sun, and how the various elements 
 were produced. Man} T philosophers have 
 tried to explain these things, but nobody 
 has ever been able to make these secrets of 
 nature so plain as Swedenborg did in this 
 book. At the same time he wrote two great 
 works on Iron and Copper, and a beautiful 
 book on The Infinite, in which he presents 
 his clear and noble ideas about the infinite 
 nature of God and the connection between 
 the soul and the body. When all was ready, 
 he undertook a third journey abroad in 
 order to publish his new books in Germany. 
 He Avas now beginning to be known as one 
 of the most learned men in Europe. 
 
 But Swedenborg never cared for ^e purpose 
 fame and worldly glory; Truth was the *«***«* 
 treasure which he sought for with an ar- 
 dent love. His one aim was to show that 
 nature had not created itself, but that above 
 nature there is a God of infinite wisdom 
 and love, and that within the body of man 
 there is a soul which is to live forever. 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 40 
 
 This, of course, is known from the Word of 
 God, but many of the learned did not be- 
 lieve in the Word, and Swedenborg there- 
 fore tried to show them their error by prov- 
 ing in a scientific way the connexion be- 
 tween God and His creation. But since 
 Man is the most perfeft thing in Nature, 
 Swedenborg now turned his attention to 
 the study of the human body, which is the 
 habitation of the soul and the image and 
 likeness of God Himself. 
 % long four- In order to complete his knowledge 
 
 of the human body by examining the 
 greatest works on anatomy in the various 
 libraries in Europe, he set out on a fourth 
 foreign journey, in the year 1736. This time 
 he kept an account of his travels, writing 
 down, day by day, short descriptions of the 
 many interesting things he saw while visit- 
 ing Germany, Holland, France, and Italy, 
 together with observations on the character 
 of the people and the form of the govern- 
 ment in these countries. On his way home 
 
41 SCIENTIST ANT) PHILOSOPHER 
 
 he published his great work, The Economy 
 of the Animal Kingdom, in Holland, and 
 then returned to Sweden in 1740. He was 
 now considered a very great man even in 
 his own country, and was made a member 
 of the Academy of Sciences, a society of 
 the most learned men in Sweden, of which 
 the famous Linnaeus, the " king of flowers/* 
 was the president. But he did not remain 
 long at home, for in 1743 he was again in 
 Holland, ready to publish another great 
 work on the human body. This book was 
 entitled The Animal Kingdom. 
 
 The human body looks very simple ©is tooths on 
 from without, but so many w r onderlul <25obp 
 
 and intricate things are contained within 
 the skin, that the most learned do6lors will 
 never be able to describe all of them. The 
 finest and purest things in nature are col- 
 lected in the body of man, and the science 
 of anatomy is therefore the noblest and 
 highest of all natural sciences. Without some 
 knowledge of anatomy, a man cannot really 
 
CARL VON LINNE (LINN/EUS) 
 BORN 1707, DIED 1778 
 
43 SCIENTIST ANT> PHILOSOPHER 
 
 know himself, for if he looks at his body 
 from the outside only, he will never under- 
 stand what is going on within, and even if 
 he were to cut up a dead body and look 
 at the internal parts through the strongest 
 microscope, he would still see only the out- 
 side of those parts. The things within, the 
 real life in the body and all its parts, can 
 be seen only with the eye of the rational 
 understanding. 
 
 This was the instrument which Sweden- 
 borg used in his studies of the human 
 body. He looked with his reason at the 
 things which other men had discovered 
 with their dissecting knives and microscopes, 
 and he looked not so much for the mere 
 form and position of the various vessels 
 and organs, as for the " why " and the 
 " wherefore," the purpose, reason, and use 
 of all things in the body. On this account, 
 and also because he always remembered 
 that the body is the sacred temple of a 
 soul, the mysteries of the human frame were 
 
EMANUEL SIVEUENBORG 44 
 
 opened to him in a light such as has never 
 been given to another man. And thus, by 
 learning the genuine truth concerning the 
 kingdoms of nature, his mind was prepared 
 to receive, afterwards, the revelation of the 
 Divine Truth concerning the spiritual King- 
 dom of God. 
 $f# ?earcf) for In the course of his studies Sweden- 
 
 borg resembles a man who is climbing 
 higher and higher up a mountain-side. From 
 the mines and minerals in the ground his 
 thoughts had risen to the sun and stars, and 
 then to the still higher study of the living 
 form of man. And now, after he had mas- 
 tered every natural science and had come to 
 those inner recesses of human nature where 
 the spirit dwells, he tried to lift the veil 
 from the invisible in order to discover the 
 very soul itself. For this purpose Sweden- 
 borg made a deep study of the mind of 
 man, the will and the understanding, the 
 affeftions and the thoughts. Higher and 
 higher soared his inquiring spirit, until he 
 
45 SCIENTIST ANT> PHILOSOPHER 
 
 felt that he stood upon the threshold of a 
 higher world, into which no man can pene- 
 trate by his own understanding, any more 
 than a camel can enter through the eye of 
 a needle. Glimpses of truth were given to 
 him, grand laws of universal order, which 
 he has written down in his beautiful works 
 on The Soul and on The Worship and Love 
 of God. But with all his learning and his 
 labors he had not been able to discover the 
 real truth concerning the soul and its im- 
 mortal life. He knew he could go no fur- 
 ther by himself, and bowed in deep humility 
 before his God, who alone could reveal 
 what is invisible. He had now, as it were, 
 reached the very top of the mountain of 
 human knowledge. Above this there was 
 nothing more, — except heaven itself, which 
 now was opened to him by the Lord. 
 
IV 
 
 The Opening of his Spiritual Sight 
 
 ftematfcatrte For some years Swedenborg" had 
 
 Steams an& m J ° 
 
 ^>!0n? noticed a wonderful change coming into 
 
 his life. While writing some of his books, 
 there had appeared, at times, flames and 
 strange lights before his eyes, and he had 
 understood that these were signs from heav- 
 en to show that he had written what is 
 true. Remarkable dreams also came to him 
 at night, so peculiar that he thought they 
 must have some hidden meaning. After a 
 while he began to write down some of these 
 dreams, and tried to explain to himself what 
 they could signify. Thus he walked for 
 some time as it were in a twilight between 
 natural and spiritual light ; it was the dawn 
 of a new age, not only for himself but for 
 all mankind. 
 
47 THE OPENING OF HIS SPIRITUAL SIGHT 
 
 Finally, in the year 1743, the light (Sfte Bort re-- 
 
 J ' J /HO ' s Heals ^imseif 
 
 of heaven first broke through the clouds to&tae&enborg 
 
 in his natural mind, for then the Lord Jesus 
 Christ appeared in person to Swedenborg 
 and called him to serve in that holy use for 
 which he had been prepared from his child- 
 hood. Of this first manifestation of the Lord 
 we have no particular account, but He ap- 
 peared twice again to Swedenborg before 
 the latter w^as fully introduced into the 
 spiritual world. When the Lord appeared 
 the second time, Swedenborg tells us that 
 he " lay upon His bosom and looked at Him 
 face to face. It was a countenance with an 
 holy expression, and such that it cannot be 
 described ; it was also smiling, and I truly 
 believe that such had been His face while 
 He lived on earth. " This took place in 
 Holland in the year 1744. 2 
 
 The third manifestation took place at (OTfte Vision in 
 London, in 1745, while Swedenborg sat 
 at table in an inn, eating with unusual appe- 
 tite. Suddenly everything became dim be- 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 48 
 
 fore his eyes, but after a while he saw a 
 mass of horrid reptiles on the floor. These 
 disappeared after a feAv minutes, and then 
 he noticed a man in a corner of the room, 
 who said to him, " Eat not so much." Swed- 
 enborg was quite frightened at all this, and 
 all became black in the room, but when the 
 darkness cleared away he found himself 
 alone as before. He then went home, but 
 during the following night the same man 
 appeared again to Swedenborg, revealing 
 Himself as the Creator and Redeemer of 
 the world, and promising to explain to him 
 the hidden or internal sense of the Sacred 
 Scriptures.* 
 promise of tfce In order that we may understand 
 
 onti Coming why the Lord revealed Himself to Swed- 
 enborg, we must first call to mind the 
 promise which He gave to the disciples 
 
 * Swedenborg was afterwards instructed that the rep- 
 tiles which he saw represented the unclean desires of the 
 body, such as the lust of eating or drinking too much, 
 which a man must overcome and cast out of himself be- 
 fore he can rise above his animal nature. 3 
 
49 THE OPENING OF HIS SPIRITUAL SIGHT 
 
 before He left this world. He promised that 
 He would come again to those who loved 
 Him, but this time He was to appear "in 
 the clouds of heaven with power and great 
 glory." This was spoken in a parable, but 
 the Christians have not understood it, and 
 therefore many are still expecting that the 
 Lord will some day appear in a natural 
 cloud and establish an earthly kingdom. 
 They do not know that He has already 
 come in the clouds of licaven, and has be- 
 gun to establish a heavenly kingdom among 
 men. The Jews, in the same way, do not 
 yet know that the Lord was born in Beth- 
 lehem, but they are still expecting the Mes- 
 siah to appear in Jerusalem, and make Him- 
 self the king over the whole earth. But the 
 Lord is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life/' 
 and His name is " the Word of God." By the 
 "clouds" in which He was to appear, He 
 meant those things in the Scriptures which 
 are difficult to understand, and by His 
 " appearing " in these clouds He meant that 
 
EMANUEL SlVEDENBORG 50 
 
 He Himself would come as the Divine Truth 
 and explain the glorious and heavenly things 
 which are hidden in the parables and sym- 
 bols of the written Word. When the gen- 
 uine truth appears in the Word to men, 
 then " the Son of Man " is again speaking 
 with His beloved, teaching them to do His 
 will as it is done in heaven ; then the Word 
 has real " power " with men, and then the 
 " glory of God" appears in the Scriptures, 
 the " clouds" are then no longer dark, but 
 are beaming with the splendor of heavenly 
 
 Hght. 
 
 ($1)e &tate of The Christian world was, indeed, in 
 
 tbe Christian 
 
 fflavlb the greatest need of the Divine reve- 
 lation which the Lord was now about to 
 give through Swedenborg, for the church 
 which called itself from the name of Christ 
 had become thoroughly perverted and cor- 
 rupt, and no longer worshipped the Lord 
 Jesus Christ as the only God of heaven and 
 earth. The old Christian church now held 
 as its fundamental do6lrine that God was 
 
51 THE OPENING OF HIS SPIRITUAL SIGHT 
 
 divided into three different persons, and 
 that each one of these persons was God by 
 himself, and so they really worshipped three 
 gods. The Word of God had been explained 
 in one way by one great teacher, and in 
 a totally different way by another, until it 
 had been so twisted and turned that no- 
 body understood its real meaning. The 
 people had been forbidden to try to under- 
 stand the teachings of the Lord and the 
 doftrines of the church ; they only had to 
 believe blindly what popes and councils had 
 commanded. Faith, blind belief, was the only 
 thing considered necessary for salvation ; 
 the worst rascal, it was taught, could go 
 straight to heaven if he only believed, while 
 a poor heathen, who might have a loving 
 heart and lived well, but on account of 
 his ignorance could not have faith, was 
 condemned to hell by this cruel church. 
 Faith alone was upheld as the essence of 
 all true religion, but since there were so 
 many different kinds of faith and no kind of 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 52 
 
 mutual love, the church split up into hun- 
 dreds of se6ls, each condemning and raging 
 against all the rest, and so these perverted 
 people, " Christians," robbed and fought and 
 killed one another for more than a thousand 
 years, until the Christian church had be- 
 come more like a hell than a heaven. 
 a^tbeHorb If " those days had not been short- 
 
 came again ene( j^» jf this state of things had kept on 
 much longer, no flesh could have been saved, 
 for men would have totally destroyed each 
 other, and the human race would have per- 
 ished in eternal death. " But for the elecSt's 
 sake " those days were shortened. While 
 there were yet some simple, faithful and 
 loving hearts among the Christians, the 
 Lord revealed Himself in the truth of His 
 Word. Nothing but the Divine Truth it- 
 self could save these few remnants from the 
 universal corruption. Only the Lord Him- 
 self could explain the true meaning of His 
 Word, and sweep away all the false teach- 
 ings which had been spun about the'hu- 
 
5) THE OPENING OP HIS SPIRITUAL SIGHT 
 
 man understanding. He came as the Truth 
 to set free His people, and this Truth He 
 chose to reveal through His servant, Eman- 
 uel Swedenborg. 
 
 In order that Swedenborg: might learn ®ht Spiritual 
 
 & fe WMb opened 
 
 to understand the Word as it is under- to&toetumborg 
 
 stood in heaven, the Lord now opened to 
 
 him the whole spiritual world, so that he 
 
 was able to walk about there, and to speak 
 
 with the spirits and angels just as really 
 
 and actually as we walk about here on 
 
 earth and speak with one another. This 
 
 was not so difficult as it may seem, for the 
 
 spiritual world is not very far away. The 
 
 Lord Himself has taught us, " Behold, the 
 
 kingdom of God is within yon." Every good 
 
 •man carries heaven within himself, and 
 
 every one of us is, in fa£t, even now in the 
 
 spiritual world as to the spirit, although 
 
 we do not know it, because our spiritual 
 
 eyes are not opened until after death. But 
 
 whenever the Lord in His mercy has given 
 
 a new revelation to His people, He has al- 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 54 
 
 ways opened the spiritual eyes of some one 
 of His servants on earth. He did so in an- 
 cient times to Moses and the prophets and 
 the evangelists, and He did so now to 
 Emanuel Swedenborg, but in a more per- 
 fect manner than ever before. The won- 
 ders of the spiritual world were opened to 
 his eyes, the horrors of hell, and the glories 
 of heaven, in order that through him all 
 other men might receive a true knowledge 
 of that world in which, after death, each 
 one is to live for ever, 
 ^toebenboro^ Swedenborg now gave up his work 
 
 in the College of Mines and all his 
 studies in the natural sciences. Henceforth 
 his life was given entirely and direftly to 
 the service of the Lord, and the one thing 
 which he now studied to the end of his 
 days was the Word of God as it was first 
 written in the Hebrew and Greek lan- 
 guages. While thus studying he was given 
 to know the genuine understanding of the 
 Scriptures. No spirit, nor even any angel, 
 
55 THE OPENING OF HIS SPIRITUAL SIGHT 
 
 was permitted to instruct him on this sub- 
 ject, but the Lord alone taught him what 
 to write in those great and many volumes 
 which contain the do6lrines of the New 
 Church. 
 
SWEDENBORG IN 1766 
 
Swedenborg the Revelator 
 
 After a few years of preparatory study (tfre ftrcana^ 
 of the Word and exploration of the spir- 
 itual world, Swedenborg, in the year 1747, 
 began to write the great work called The A r- 
 cana Coelcstii, unfolding the " heavenly mys- 
 teries " which are contained in the Sacred 
 Scripture. This work,, which occupies many 
 large volumes, was printed in London be- 
 tween the years 1748 and 1756, and explains 
 in a Divine light what is meant by the Cre- 
 ation of the world, the Garden of Eden, 
 the Fall of Man, the Flood, the Tower of 
 Babel, the History of Abraham, Isaac and 
 Jacob, the Captivity of the children of Is- 
 rael in Egypt and their wanderings in the 
 wilderness on the way to the land of Ca- 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 58 
 
 naan. Nobody had ever supposed that all 
 this was anything else but just common his- 
 tory, but in the Arcana Ccelestia it is shown 
 that there is a much deeper meaning in 
 these stories, and that the Lord in that in- 
 ternal meaning has described the history of 
 His Church among men, and how each man 
 may be saved from hell, and led to his eter- 
 nal home in the heavenly Canaan. 
 ($fre Spiritual Swedenborg was now daily among 
 
 the angels and spirits in the other world 
 at the same time that he was among the 
 men on earth. The things which he heard 
 and saw in the spiritual world, he has de- 
 scribed at length in his Spiritual Diary and 
 other works, but especially in the wonderful 
 book on Heaven and Hell, in which we are 
 taught about the real nature of life after 
 death. This is especially a work for the 
 young, for what child is there who has not 
 asked, What is heaven like ? But how many 
 parents, outside the New Church, are able 
 to answer this question? 
 
59 SWEDENBORG THE REVEL ATOR 
 
 In these books the Lord has revealed (£fre IBottti of 
 that every man awakens in the spiritual 
 world on the third day after his death on 
 earth. The spirit is then very much surprised 
 to find that he is really alive again, has a 
 real human body, and is in a real world, with 
 fields and gardens, rivers, mountains and 
 seas. Angels are there to meet him and to 
 teach him about the new world into which 
 he has come. As yet he is neither in heaven 
 or in hell, but in a world between these two, 
 called the World of Spirits. Here all spirits, 
 good or wicked, are together for some time 
 in order to be examined and judged, each 
 one according to his works. For mankind 
 is like the harvest.growing in a field. Death 
 is the reaper, and the World of Spirits is the 
 threshing-floor where the chaff is separated 
 from the wheat, where the good are chosen 
 and the wicked rejefted. This judgment is 
 effected by each one being allowed to fol- 
 low his own bent or love in perfe6l free- 
 dom. Those spirits who love the Lord and 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 60 
 
 the neighbor, take pleasure in the company 
 of the angels and follow them to places of 
 instruction where they are taught concern- 
 ing the true Christian religion, and then they 
 are ready to enter heaven. But those who 
 love themselves and their own pleasures 
 above all things, soon become tired of their 
 angel-guides. They rush away from them 
 and seek companions like themselves. Thieves 
 hunt up the dens of thieves, and drunkards 
 seek the society of drunkards. Each wicked 
 spirit loses all fear of punishment, and be- 
 gins to commit all those evil deeds which 
 he would have done here on earth if he 
 had dared. And so each one casts himself 
 v into hell, which he much prefers to heaven. 
 Were he forced to go to heaven, against 
 his own will, he would be like a fish out 
 of water. He would not be able to endure 
 the heavenly air of purity, truthfulness, and 
 mutual love, but would suffer horrible tor- 
 ments until allowed to return to his dark- 
 ness and filth. 
 
61 SIVEDENBORG THE REVEL ATOR 
 
 Hell is below the World of Spirits, if^efl anb its 
 It is a world of darkness and horror, 
 where the satans and devils dwell in hide- 
 ous holes and caverns, among burning des- 
 erts, stagnant bogs, and all sorts of fearful 
 surroundings. All these unhappy spirits 
 have at one time been men and women on 
 the earth, but they now appear to the good 
 like deformed monsters, or like fierce and 
 filthy beasts. All of them are burning with 
 hatred against the Lord, the angels, and 
 even against one another. Each one wants 
 to be master over all the rest, and finds his 
 greatest joy in tormenting others. No one 
 of them is willing to be of the least service 
 to any one else, and therefore they are forced 
 to work in prisons and workhouses, and 
 are miserably punished for their evil deeds. 
 Here they remain for ever, for they do not 
 want to be saved ; yet the mercy of the Lord 
 watches even over them, restraining them, 
 and preventing them from casting them- 
 selves into ever deeper damnation. 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 62 
 
 beaten anb it£ Heaven, on the contrary, is a world 
 
 fttfeof«awi-- J . 
 
 ne?^ ot light, and love, and never-ending joy. 
 
 The light is from the glorious Sun of heav- 
 en, within which the angels are constantly 
 beholding the loving face of their heavenly 
 Father, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
 To do His will is the greatest joy of all 
 the angels, and therefore they are constantly 
 busy with useful work. Each one is given 
 that special occupation or work which he 
 enjoys the best. Some are in humble po- 
 sitions and some in high, but all are simply 
 servants of the Lord. All the angels have 
 been men or women on the earth, who, af- 
 ter a period of preparation and instruction 
 in the World of Spirits, have been introduced 
 into heaven, where each one is made a mem- 
 ber of one of the innumerable heavenly socie- 
 ties, and here he remains to eternity. Beau- 
 tiful, shining garments are given to him by 
 the Lord, and a lovely home among the 
 many mansions in the Father's house. But 
 the loveliest of all is this, that every man- 
 
63 SIVEDENBORG THE REVELATOR 
 
 angel here finds his true conjugial partner, 
 the beautiful and loving angel-wife with 
 whom he will live forever. Everything is 
 bright and beautiful in heaven ; everywhere 
 there is happiness and health and youth. No- 
 body ever grows old there ; even those who 
 die on earth as old men and women at once 
 begin to grow young in heaven, and finally 
 they regain the strength and beauty of early 
 youth. But you will find much more con- 
 cerning all these glorious things in the works 
 which Swedenborg wrote about Heaven and 
 Hell and Conjugial Love. 
 
 Beside these books Swedenborg wrote ^tber a^rit- 
 . ° in0s of tfte 
 
 nearly sixty other works, some large, jfretB Cimtcfr 
 
 some small, in which he explained the Heav- 
 enly Doftrines, of the New Jerusalem as the 
 Lord taught him to write. Of these books I 
 will mention only the following : 
 
 The Earths in the Universe, in which are 
 revealed most wonderful things concerning 
 the people who live on other planets and dis- 
 tant stars, how they look and live, and how 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 64 
 
 they all worship no other God than our Lord 
 Jesus Christ. This is a very interesting 
 book for young readers. 
 
 The Last Judgment, where Swedenborg 
 describes how the wicked spirits in the other 
 world were cast down into hell, so that they 
 could no longer prevent good spirits from 
 going to heaven. This took place in the 
 year 1757. 
 
 The Nezv Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doc- 
 trine, in which we are taught that the " New 
 Jerusalem " means the New Church, just as 
 the old Jerusalem means the old church of 
 the Jews and the perverted church of the 
 Christians. The doftrine which this New 
 Church is to acknowledge is called " heav- 
 enly" doftrine because it is revealed by the 
 Lord out of heaven. 
 
 The Four Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 
 In this work are revealed the genuine teach- 
 ings of the Word concerning the Lord, the 
 Sacred Scripture, Life, and Faith, — the four 
 fundamental doctrines of the New Church. 
 
65 SlVEDENBORG THE REVEL ATOR 
 
 The Divine Love and Wisdom, which treats 
 especially of the Lord as the Sun of heaven, 
 and of the order in which the whole world 
 was created. 
 
 The Divine Providence, in which men are 
 shown how the Lord not only created, but 
 continually preserves and governs heaven 
 and earth, w T ith all things therein, both great 
 and small. 
 
 The Apocalypse Revealed, and The Apoca- 
 lypse Explained, two great works, in which is 
 given the true explanation of the book called 
 the " Apocalypse " or u Revelation of John." 
 It is shown that this book, in the internal 
 sense, treats of the New Church, the " Bride 
 of the Lord," which will be built up in this 
 world among those who are willing to be- 
 lieve in and obey the heavenly doctrine of 
 the New Jerusalem. 
 
 The Brief Exposition of the Dottrine of the 
 New Chnrch, in which it is shown how true 
 this do6lrine is, and how false and mislead- 
 ing are the do6lrines which are taught both 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 66 
 
 by the Roman Catholic and the Protestant 
 churches. 
 
 The True Christian Religion, which was 
 the last work published by Swedenborg 
 himself. It contains a full explanation of all 
 the doftrines of the New Church. 
 
 All these works were originally written 
 in Latin, but nearly all of them have now 
 been translated into English, French and Ger- 
 man. Many have been published in Swed- 
 ish, Danish and Italian, and some even in 
 the Icelandic, Welsh, Dutch, Polish, Russian, 
 Hungarian, Spanish, Arabic and Hindu lan- 
 guages. Some day they will be read by 
 every nation on earth, and will fill this world 
 with the light and joy of heaven. 
 
VI 
 
 J{ Visit to Swedenborg 
 
 Many interesting things have been told 
 by a great many different people about 
 Swedenborg himself ; how he looked and 
 a6ted, and what kind of a home he had. In 
 this chapter we have brought together many 
 of these things and have woven them into 
 a connected story, which, let us suppose, is 
 told by some one of the many visitors who 
 used to come to see Swedenborg at his 
 home in Stockholm. All the incidents men- 
 tioned are fa6ls ; it is a story only in form. 
 
 "During the whole of the year 1769 the 
 people in Sweden were greatly excited 
 about the many wonderful things which 
 were told respecting Emanuel Swedenborg, 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 68 
 
 his conversations with people in the other 
 world, and his new doftrines, which were 
 much admired by the few who had read his 
 books, but bitterly hated by the many who 
 declared that they never had read and never 
 would read his writings. I was myself at 
 this time a young student at the university 
 of Upsala, and had heard a great deal both 
 for and against Swedenborg. Some said he 
 was a prophet from God, and some said he 
 was a madman, but all agreed in this, that 
 he had said and done certain things which 
 (€\)t iFire were, indeed, most remarkable. Once, 
 for instance, he happened to be at a 
 dinner-party in the city of Gottenburg, when 
 he suddenly informed the company that a 
 great fire had just then broken out in Stock- 
 holm, nearly three hundred miles away, 
 and that his own house was in great dan- 
 ger. After a while he said that a great por- 
 tion of the southern part of Stockholm had 
 burned down, but that his own house had 
 been saved. The company did not know 
 
69 
 
 A VISIT TO SWEDEN BORG 
 
 what to think about this, but Swedenborg's 
 words were repeated to many in Gotten- 
 burg, and great was the astonishment when 
 three days later^a, messenger arrived from 
 Stockholm bearing news of the fire just as 
 it had been described by Swedenborg. 
 
 " At another time he had been invited (Cfie <©ueen'£ 
 to the royal castle in Stockholm, where 
 the queen, Louisa Ulrica, asked him in a 
 teasing way, if it was really true that he 
 
 THE ROYAL PALACE IN STOCKHOLM 
 
EMANUEL SlVBDENBORG 70 
 
 could speak with people who had left this 
 world. To this he answered ' Yes,' and the 
 queen, in order to try him, then asked him 
 if he would be willing to carry a message 
 from her to her brother, prince Augustus 
 William of Prussia, who had died a short 
 time before. Swedenborg replied, * With 
 all my heart/ The queen, who really be- 
 lieved that there was no such thing as a 
 life after this, now told the courtiers about 
 Swedenborg's promise, and joked a good 
 deal about it, but a few days afterwards 
 he came again to the castle, walked boldly 
 up to the queen, and asked to speak with 
 her in private. She then took him aside, 
 and he now whispered a few words in her 
 ear which so astonished her that she nearly 
 fainted. Many great people at the court 
 witnessed this scene, and the queen after- 
 wards told them that Swedenborg had in- 
 deed given her a message from her brother, 
 and had revealed a secret which could have 
 been known to none except to her brother 
 
71 A VISIT TO SWEDEN BORG 
 
 and to herself. What the secret was she 
 would not tell anybody, but she never again 
 made merry about Swedenborg. 
 
 " Many other similar tales were told about 
 this wonderful man, but some tried to ex- 
 plain them in one way, and some in another, 
 and so, in order to judge for myself, I de- 
 cided to look into some of the works which 
 Swedenborg had written and which he had 
 presented to the library of the university. 
 I read and read, first from curiosity, after- 
 wards with the greatest astonishment, and 
 finally with the most intense joy and grati- 
 tude to the Lord for the immeasurable new 
 world of light which had been opened to 
 me in these Writings. Then I became pos- 
 sessed of an uncontrollable desire to see 
 with my own eyes this most wonderful of 
 all the mortals that had ever trodden this 
 earth, Emanuel Swedenborg, who styled 
 himself so simply, 'the servant of the Lord.' 
 
 " And so, one day in May, 1770, I took ^uiebenbotg^ 
 the stage from Upsala to Stockholm, 
 
EMANUEL SlVEDENBORG 
 
 72 
 
 SWEDENBORG'S HOUSE AND GARDEN 
 
 where I arrived in the afternoon. The next 
 day I inquired for Swedenborg's address, 
 and, finding it without difficulty, I walked 
 out to the southern part of the city, and up 
 the ' Hornsgatan,' where Swedenborg lived. 
 I finally found myself before his house, an 
 old-fashioned wooden building, low and small, 
 but neat and well kept, humble enough for 
 so great a man, but sufficient for his wants 
 
73 A VISIT TO SWEDEN BORG 
 
 as an unmarried man. 4 I knocked, and the 
 door was opened by a friendly, honest-look- 
 ing old woman, Fru Anderson, the wife of 
 the gardener. She led me into a nicely 
 furnished parlor, and courteously inquired 
 what I wanted. 5 I explained why I had 
 come, and heard with regret that the ' Herr 
 Assessor ' had gone out for a walk. But 
 as he was soon expefted home, she suggested 
 that I should wait, and in the meantime take 
 a look at his house and garden. The master 
 would not objeft, as he kept open house to 
 his many visitors. To this invitation I quickly 
 agreed, and the kind-hearted, talkative old 
 servant at once began to show me the rooms. 
 His parlor, as I said before, was neatly fur- 
 nished, but at the same time showed the ab- 
 sence of the beautifying hands of a wife. In 
 the middle of the room stood a curious 
 marble table, inlaid with mosaic in the form 
 of a pack of cards spread out loosely. 6 On 
 one of the walls I noticed an old painting 
 representing our mad hero, king Charles 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 74 
 
 XII. , in the midst of the fury of battle. On 
 another wall was the framed patent of no- 
 bility which was kept by Swedenborg as 
 the head of his family. 
 
 " But the master did not spend much time 
 in his parlor, the old lady informed me, but 
 was nearly always in his study, where he 
 was writing day and night, year after year. 
 The old servant was evidently very fond 
 and proud of her master. According to her 
 (and others), he was the wisest and most 
 learned man in the whole world, and his 
 company was sought for by all the great 
 men in Sweden, the bishops of the church, 
 the professors of the universities and gentle- 
 men of the court ; nay, he was even received 
 as a familiar friend by the members of the 
 royal family. 
 
 "At this point I began to feel myself 
 rather small, and somewhat regretted my au- 
 dacity in intruding myself upon so grand a 
 lord ; but I regained my courage when the 
 kind old soul informed me that her dear mas- 
 
75 A VISIT TO SH/EDENBORG 
 
 ter, in spite of all this glory, was nevertheless 
 the most humble and simple-hearted of men, 
 courteous and benevolent to high and low 
 alike, and cold only to some impertinent 
 people who came to gaze upon him as a 
 wizard or fortune-teller. 7 The only fault 
 she had ever found with him was that he 
 did not care to go to church, and that he 
 never gave any money to the beggars ; but 
 she was no longer worried about this, after 
 the master had shown her that the people 
 did not really worship the Lord Himself in 
 the Lutheran and the other churches, but 
 three Divine persons instead. As for the 
 beggars, she now agreed with her master 
 that they were mostly an idle lot who did 
 not deserve much sympathy, but she had 
 been informed by one of the officers of the 
 parish, that Herr Swedenborg every year 
 quietly gave a big sum of money to help 
 those poor people in the neighborhood who 
 did not go begging. 8 
 
 " Chatting in this manner the old lady 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 16 
 
 now led me into the bedroom, which was 
 furnished with great simplicity. An old- 
 fashioned chiffonier, a wash-stand, some 
 chairs, a high bedstead in an alcove sur- 
 rounded with heavy curtains, and on a wall 
 a newly-painted portrait of himself, — this 
 was all the furniture. A large water-pitcher 
 in a bowl on the washstand surprised me 
 somewhat, as some gossip had told . me that 
 Swedenborg never needed to wash himself, 
 inasmuch as no dirt ever clung to him. 9 
 My guide told me that her master was a 
 rather irregular sleeper, going to bed only 
 when he was sleepy, and arising whenever 
 he had slept enough. Sometimes he stayed 
 in bed for days, and then nobody dared to 
 disturb him, for he was then continually in 
 heaven with the angels. 10 I gazed with awe 
 and reverence upon this bed, where in the 
 visions of the night the inhabitants of an- 
 other world descended to the silent sleeper. 
 To me it seemed as if I stood near the gate 
 of the eternal life. 
 
77 A VISIT TO SWEDENBORG 
 
 " I now followed Fru Anderson into m% ^tutu? 
 the study, where Swedenborg each mor- 
 ning made a fire of birch wood in the open 
 grate, and prepared his simple breakfast, 
 consisting generally of bread soaked in hot 
 milk. The Herr Assessor did not seem to 
 need a great deal of food, I was told, and 
 seldom ate any meat, but was rather fond 
 of coffee, which he took at any time in the 
 day, always filling the cup half full of 
 sugar. 11 
 
 " Looking about in this study, where 
 Swedenborg had written nearly all of the 
 Sacred Writings of the New Church, I was 
 astonished at the absence of books and 
 bookcases. Nothing of this kind was to be 
 seen, except, on a table, the Word in He- 
 brew, Greek, and Latin, a set of his own 
 theological writings, and some manuscript 
 indexes to these works. These were all he 
 needed now: the rest of his library was 
 kept in a small house in the garden. On 
 his writing-table there was nothing except a 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 78 
 
 handsome inkstand, a goosequill pen, and 
 the yet unfinished manuscript of his great 
 work, The True Christian Religion, on which 
 he was still at work. 12 
 
 " Spellbound I looked at this writing- 
 table, where the light of heavenly truth had 
 come down to earth in the form of written 
 words. And in these words the Lord Him- 
 self is now speaking openly with men. He 
 has come again as the Divine Truth itself, 
 and yet how few have listened to His 
 voice ! But we must wait with patience ; 
 wait for hundreds of years, perhaps, until 
 the eyes and ears of men be opened for the 
 truth. In time it will, be received, though 
 the opposing darkness be as strong as death 
 and as black as hell. I looked up over the 
 table, through the open window. Outside, 
 in the garden, I saw the signs of early 
 spring — our lovely northern spring. The 
 fruit-trees were budding and blossoming, the 
 snowdrops and narcissuses were swaying to 
 and fro in the balmy wind which wafted 
 
19 A VISIT TO SWEDENBORG 
 
 their fragrance to me, together with the 
 clear notes of a flock of migrator) r birds 
 above, who were returning from their south- 
 ern homes. There was spring in the north, 
 and signs of spring in human hearts. The 
 truth had come again into the world, like 
 a breath from heaven. The winter of the 
 church was passing away, and here, in this 
 lowly dwelling, lived the herald of that 
 new age which was to restore to mankind 
 the youth and beauty of a never-ending 
 spring. 
 
 " Out of these meditations I was %i$ <6ar&en 
 finally awakened by my guide, who now 
 invited me to come out into the garden. 
 Here we met her husband, the gardener, a 
 kindly old man, who eagerly began to show 
 me the things of interest in his special do- 
 main. Among the trees I noticed a variety 
 of choice fruit-trees and a number of box- 
 trees which, in the fashion of those days, 
 were clipped and trimmed into the shape 
 of various animals and ornamental figures. 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 80 
 
 In front of the house there were several 
 large flowerbeds, containing rare Dutch tu- 
 lips and other early flowers. At the side 
 of the house was a small conservatory, in 
 which were kept palms and other southern 
 plants. The gardener said that his old mas- 
 ter loved these flowers and plants almost 
 as tenderly as if they were his children. 13 
 But he loved still better little human chil- 
 dren. 'The little folks always miss him 
 greatly when he goes away on his foreign 
 journeys/ the old man continued. ' They 
 are his special favorites. He often allows 
 them to play in his garden, and sometimes 
 joins in their games and merriment. They 
 are always on the lookout when he is com- 
 ing, for he generally has his pocket full of 
 cakes and goodies for them/ For their 
 special amusement he had built a maze or 
 labyrinth of boards in the garden, so con- 
 trived that no one who had entered could 
 find the way out without his help. 14 There 
 were several other little buildings in the 
 
81 
 
 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORG 
 
 garden. One was his ' summer house/ where 
 he kept his library. Another was built so 
 that he could, by pressing a button, sud- 
 denly change it from a square to an o6la~ 
 gon. In this building there was also a 
 blind door, which, when opened, showed 
 another door with a window in it, as it 
 seemed. But when I walked up to it I 
 was surprised to behold — only myself ! The 
 i window ' was only a large mirror. 
 
 " The gardener laughingly told me that 
 the old master derived 
 much amusement from 
 this arrangement, especial- 
 ly when inquisitive young 
 ladies were investigating 
 the nooks and corners of 
 his large garden. Once 
 a pretty maiden begged 
 that * Uncle Swedenborg 
 would please show her one 
 of his angels,' and as she 
 would not be put off, he 
 
 SWEDENBORG'S SUMMER HOUSE 
 
EMANUEL SJVEDENBORG 82 
 
 led her to this door and smilingly opened 
 it, saying, ' Now, my dear, you shall see an 
 angel/ But she saw only her own blush- 
 ing face. 15 
 
 " Much interested in all this, I was about 
 to say farewell, to come again at another 
 time, when we were met by the gardener's 
 wife, who announced that the Herr Assess- 
 or had just returned from his walk and 
 would be pleased to see me in the parlor. 
 Delighted, but somewhat fearful, I walked 
 quickly to the house, and was met at the 
 door by Emanuel Swedenborg himself, who 
 greeted me with a friendly smile and led 
 me into the room, 
 ^toetumbora'p "I was surprised to see in this very 
 
 old gentleman an ereft and lively per- 
 son, somewhat thin and pale, perhaps, but 
 strong and manly. His bearing was digni- 
 fied and venerable, his face thoughtful, re- 
 fined and innocent, and there was about 
 his whole person something unusual, an at- 
 mosphere of purity and holiness such as I 
 
83 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORC 
 
 cannot exactly describe. On his head he 
 wore a powdered wig, like all other gentle- 
 men of that time. His mouth was large 
 and firm, but always softened by a gentle 
 smile. His nose was straight and strong, 
 and his eyes were large and of a deep clear 
 blue. They were really remarkable eyes, 
 gentle and soft, yet earnest and penetrating, 
 as if he could read beyond my face the 
 naked features of my very soul. 16 
 
 " My host now invited me to take a seat, 
 and asked what he could do for me. I 
 briefly told him my name, and stated that 
 I had not come out of mere curiosity, but 
 from the desire to express to him my grati- 
 tude for all the wonderful things which I 
 had learned through the books which he 
 had written, and that I had become firmly 
 convinced that the do6lrines of the New 
 Jerusalem were the truth itself. At these 
 words the face of Swedenborg was lit up 
 with a tender light ; his eyes for a moment 
 seemed filled with tears of joy, and he 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 84 
 
 warmly pressed my hand, saying quickly, 
 'Good! good!' 17 Then he added, solemnly, 
 ' But give the thanks to the Lord alone. I 
 am only a servant. The truth is from the 
 Lord alone, who prepared me for my office 
 from my early youth, and who filled me 
 with His Spirit to teach the do6lrines of 
 the New Church through the Word, from 
 Him/ 
 
 " I sat silent for some moments, ponder- 
 ing over this statement, and then asked, Ts 
 there not, then, anything in all your writ- 
 ings that is from yourself or from your 
 own genius and learning?' To this he an- 
 swered very earnestly, 'I can solemnly tes- 
 tify, in the name of truth, that from the 
 first day of my call I have not received 
 anything whatever from myself, or from 
 any spirit or angel, respecting- the clo6lrines 
 of the New Church, but from the Lord 
 alone, while reading the Word. When I 
 think of what I am about to write, and 
 while I am writing, I possess a perfeft in- 
 
85 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORG 
 
 spiration, for otherwise it would be my 
 own, but now I know for certain that what 
 I write is the living truth of God.' 18 
 
 " Encouraged by his kindness and evi- 
 dent pleasure in dwelling on these great 
 subjefts, I now asked him question after 
 question concerning other teachings which 
 were still somewhat obscure to me. To all 
 of these he gave most clear and convinc- 
 ing answers, speaking slowly, and at times 
 with a slight stuttering. While we were 
 thus conversing, another visitor was an- 
 nounced, in whom I was delighted to recog- 
 nize a former comrade of mine at the uni- 
 versity, Sir Carl Robsahm, who, I found, 
 was a great friend of Swedenborg's, and a 
 frequent visitor to his house. 
 
 " He had come, he said, to invite the 
 Herr Assessor to his house for supper, and 
 he now extended the same invitation to 
 myself. Swedenborg, who much enjoyed a 
 social gathering of friends, cheerfully ac- 
 cepted the invitation and withdrew to his 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 86 
 
 bedroom to change his dress. When, after 
 a few moments, he appeared again, he was 
 dressed no longer in his usual simple cos- 
 tume of black knee-breeches and brown 
 coat, but in the garb of the courtier and 
 fine gentleman of high society. He now 
 wore a suit of black velvet with much fine 
 lace at the neck and the wrists, silk stock- 
 ings, and low shoes with jewelled buckles. 
 At his side he carried a small sword, curi- 
 ously hilted and inlaid with silver. In one 
 hand he had his gold-trimmed three-cornered 
 hat, and in the other a gold-headed cane. 
 Altogether, he appeared as handsome and 
 elegant a gentleman of the old type as 
 could be found anywhere. Just before we 
 started out, he produced a silver snuff-box, 
 which he passed around, and then with a 
 small golden spoon ceremoniously lifted to 
 his nose a few grains of the perfumed 
 Spanish snuff, which was then the fashion 
 in aristocratic circles. 19 
 
SWEDENBORG IN HIS PARLOR, STOCKHOLM 
 {Sivedenborg was a taller man than is represented by the artist in this pitture) 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG %% 
 
 %w persona* "As we were walking along I was 
 
 again astonished at the wonderful youth- 
 fulness of this very old gentleman. He was 
 as quick on his feet as the youngest man, 
 and walked, in fa£t, more briskly than was 
 my own custom. He noticed everything 
 about him, and entertained us young men 
 with his lively conversation, spiced now 
 and then with bright but innocent wit. 20 
 
 "When arrived at the mansion of Sir 
 Robsahm we found with our young and 
 charming hostess a small company of other 
 guests who hailed with much delight their 
 old friend, Swedenborg, for he was respe6led 
 and admired by all, whether they agreed 
 with his teachings or not. Among the 
 guests I noticed Count von Hopken, the 
 former prime minister of Sweden, who was, 
 perhaps, Swedenborg's most intimate friend ; 
 Archbishop Troilius, who agreed with Swed- 
 enborg in politics, but disagreed in religion, 
 and a Russian priest, named Oronoskow, 
 who was the chaplain to the Russian am- 
 
89 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORG 
 
 bassador and who also was a believer in 
 Swedenborg's writings. 
 
 " At the table Swedenborg ate but little, 
 but with much relish. He joined heartily 
 in the toast to his royal majesty, the king, 
 but filled his glass half full with sugar, and 
 could not be induced to take more than 
 two or three glasses of wine, — a thing which 
 rather astonished the other gentlemen, to 
 whom such moderation in drinking was not 
 a usual sight. 21 
 
 " During the conversation the Russian 
 chaplain asked Swedenborg whether he had 
 ever seen the late empress Elizabeth of 
 Russia in the other life. To this he re- 
 ceived the answer that she was now in a 
 very happy state, as she had been a truly 
 good woman at heart, and had always 
 prayed to the Lord for counsel and assist- 
 ance in the sfovernment of her countrv. 
 This answer so delighted the Russian that 
 he was moved to tears of joy in hearing 
 this news of ' the little mother,' as the em- 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 90 
 
 press had been called by her loving peo- 
 ple. 22 
 
 " There was a wonderful sphere about 
 Swedenborg's conversation. Whenever he 
 spoke all other voices were hushed, and 
 even those who were inclined to ridicule 
 were shamed into silence, as this most ven- 
 erable old man, with his smiling, innocent 
 eyes, told these unheard-of things, strange 
 and yet unanswerable, concerning a world 
 so far and yet so near to us. 23 
 
 " After supper, while the other gentle- 
 men went to enjoy a game of cards, Swed- 
 enborg and some of the younger men re- 
 mained with the ladies, who seemed grate- 
 ful for this attention. Some of the young- 
 er ladies, I noticed, seemed to be rather 
 amused at the faft that the old gentleman, 
 in a certain absent-mindedness, had put on 
 odd shoes, one having a buckle of gems, 
 and the other a buckle of silver. But then, 
 he had no wife in this world to look after 
 such little things, 24 
 
91 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORG 
 
 " After some small talk on various sub- 
 jects, such as the pet cats and little dogs 
 in the room who jumped up on his knees 
 to show their little tricks, Swedenborg hap- 
 pened to see a harpsichord and at once re- 
 quested the ladies to favor us with some 
 music. During the performance of a diffi- 
 cult and celebrated sonata, he beat the time 
 with his foot and seemed to enjoy the 
 music greatly. This friend of flowers and 
 children and the gentle sex could not but 
 include music also in his love of all things 
 innocent and beautiful. 25 
 
 " Promptly at seven o'clock Swedenborg 
 took his leave, explaining that he never 
 stayed out after that hour. I accompanied 
 him on his way. Never will I forget that 
 walk in the mysterious twilight of our 
 northern spring. The most memorable day 
 of my life was drawing to a close. I could 
 not hope to meet again this citizen of two 
 worlds, this man among men and angel 
 among the angels, for he told me that he 
 
EMANUEL SJVEDENBORG 92 
 
 would soon leave Sweden for Amsterdam, 
 where he would publish his last great work, 
 The True Christian Religion. Most useful 
 had this visit been to me. I felt that though 
 he was the best and wisest among men, he 
 still was but a man, my elder brother in 
 the Lord's New Church. I felt, when he 
 was explaining to me the mysteries of my 
 new faith, that he himself was not the in- 
 ventor or discoverer of the Do6lrines of 
 the New Jerusalem, but that they had been 
 given to him from the Lord Himself. 
 
 " When at last our all-too-short walk 
 was at an end, and I regretfully bade him 
 adieu before his door, he affectionately 
 pressed my hand, and earnestly advised mc 
 to continue in my study of the Do6lrines 
 of the New Church, and not only to believe 
 in them, but also to live according to their 
 teachings. 
 i£is Ia# " I saw him no more. In July of 
 
 the same year he left Sweden, never to 
 return. Having published his book in Hoi- 
 
93 A VISIT TO SIVEDENBORG 
 
 land, he went to London in 1771, and about 
 Christmas time had an attack of paralysis, 
 which made him lame and speechless for a 
 few weeks. After this he recovered some- 
 what, and was even able to write a little ; 
 but he knew that his time had come, and 
 even told the people about him the exa<5t 
 day on which he would die. 
 
 " My friend, the Rev. Arvid Ferelius, was 
 at this time the minister of the Swedish 
 church in London, and often visited Swed- 
 enborg during his last illness. The faithful 
 old servant of the Lord looked forward to 
 death as joyfully as a schoolboy looks to- 
 wards his holidays. During the last visit 
 Ferelius asked him if in his many books he 
 had written what was really true. Swed- 
 enborg then lifted himself up in his bed, 
 put his hand upon his heart, and said w T ith 
 great earnestness, ' As true as you see me 
 here, and as true as I live, I have not writ- 
 ten anything from myself, but the truth 
 from God. And if you will pay attention 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 94 
 
 to the truth you will come to see every- 
 thing, and we shall some time in eternity 
 have important things to talk over together/ 
 Pastor Ferelius afterwards began to read 
 the Writings of the New Church, and be- 
 came a zealous receiver of the truth. 
 $i» ®eath " ^ ^ ew ^ays afterwards, on the after- 
 
 noon of the twenty-ninth of March — 
 the day he had foretold — he awakened from 
 a slumber and asked the women who were 
 watching in his room what time of day it 
 was. They answered that it was about five 
 % o'clock. He then said, ' It is well. I thank 
 you. God bless you ;' and lovingly bade 
 them farewell. A few minutes afterwards 
 he breathed a gentle sigh, and his great 
 spirit passed into that world where he so 
 long had had his real home. Never will 
 this world see such another man," 26 
 
VII 
 
 Swedenborg's %ules of Life 
 
 WRITTEN FOR HIS OWN USE AND FOUND AMONG HIS 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 I. Diligently to read and meditate upon 
 the Word of God. 
 
 II. To be content under the dispensa- 
 tions of the Divine Providence. 
 
 III. To observe a propriety of behavior 
 and to preserve the conscience pure. 
 
 IV. To discharge with fidelity the func- 
 tions of my employments and the duties of 
 my office, and to make myself in all things 
 useful to society. 
 
APPENDIX I 
 
 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 Among all that Swedenborg heard and 
 saw in the spiritual world nothing can be 
 more beautiful than \v r hat he learned about 
 the little children in heaven. First of all 
 he found that the whole Christian world 
 had been totally wrong in believing that 
 only those children could go to heaven 
 who had been baptized into the Christian 
 church. Before his time people had actu- 
 ally believed that little children could go 
 to hell ; that all the innocent babies and 
 infants of heathen people would be con- 
 demned to eternal suffering, simply because 
 they had not been baptized before they 
 died ! And yet the Lord Himself had 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 98 
 
 taught His disciples : " Suffer little children 
 and forbid them not to come unto Me, for of 
 such is the kingdom of heaven." 
 
 But now, in order that a New Church 
 should be raised up which should not for- 
 bid any little ones to come unto the Lord, 
 Swedenborg was allowed to learn very par- 
 ticularly what becomes of the many little 
 children who pass away from this world, 
 and he has brought us the good tidings 
 that not a single child is lost, but that all are 
 taken up into heaven, and grow up there 
 and become angels, no matter who their 
 parents may have been, or whether they 
 had been baptized or not. And, what is 
 astonishing, he found that a third part of 
 heaven, immense as it is, consists of those 
 who had died when they were young. 27 
 
 Now, as soon as a baby or a child dies 
 in this world., the little spirit is at once 
 raised up in the other life, and wakes up 
 strong and well in the sunlight of heaven, 
 as bright as a bird on a summer morning. 
 
99 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 In every way he or she is better off than 
 before, being no longer clothed with the 
 sickly earth-body, but now in such a body 
 as the angels have. Here the youngest in- 
 fants are at once able to walk and run 
 about, without any praftice, and even to 
 speak the heavenly language, though at 
 first they may lisp and stutter a bit. 28 
 
 Nor do they find themselves alone, but 
 the Lord immediately sends the loveliest 
 women-angels to nurse them and take care 
 of them. For the love of infants is part of 
 the very life of every good woman, and 
 those who had most tenderly loved little 
 children in this world could not be perfect- 
 ly happy even in heaven, if they could not 
 have children always about them. 29 These 
 angels now take the young spirits in their 
 arms as lovingly as if they were their own 
 children, and carry them to their beautiful 
 houses in heaven, and make them feel at 
 home there. The children at once call these 
 angels " mother," but they are taught to call 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 100 
 
 no one father except their heavenly Father, 
 whose face they constantly see before them 
 in the glorious Sun of heaven. 30 
 
 The education of children is one of the 
 chief delights and occupations of all the an- 
 gels in heaven, but there are certain socie- 
 ties which are especially devoted to this 
 use, and the best and highest of these are 
 those which have the care of the very little 
 ones. 31 Here these live with their beautiful 
 angel-mothers and their kind and wise fos- 
 ter-fathers, and grow up under the imme- 
 diate view of the Lord Himself. 32 They still 
 need careful training, for not only are they 
 very ignorant, at first, but they also carry 
 with them from the earth the same tenden- 
 cies to selfishness and foolishness that be- 
 long- to all the children of our fallen race. 
 Such weeds must be rooted out before the 
 children can become real angels, and this is 
 done in heaven far more wisely and thor- 
 oughly than on the earth. In order, there- 
 fore, that the children may become pure 
 
IOi CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 and perfect as the angels are, the Lord per- 
 mits their evil tendencies to come forth at 
 times into naughty desires and bad thoughts, 
 but as soon as this happens they are at 
 once shown what such things would lead 
 them to, and they are then tilled with such 
 horror for this evil that they never do it, 
 but flee away from it as from some fear- 
 some ghost. 33 
 
 Each child is, of course, different from 
 all the rest, and each one is brought up in 
 a special manner most suitable to it, 34 but in 
 general all are trained by cultivating their 
 affecStions or love of what is beautiful and 
 pure and holy. They are taught to pray 
 to the Lord Jesus Christ as to their loving 
 Father in the heavens, asking and receiving 
 from Him all that their innocent hearts de- 
 sire. They are taught to have great rever- 
 ence for His holy Word and for all things 
 of the Church and of worship. They are 
 taught to obey because they are taught to 
 love, and not, as so often happens on earth, 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG .102 
 
 to be selfish and conceited, and to quarrel 
 and fight. 35 They are surrounded, within 
 and without their homes, with lovelier things 
 than can be described or imagined. Their 
 dolls and playtoys appear as if living to 
 them. 36 Beautiful garments are given new 
 to them each day from the Lord. Delight- 
 ful gardens surround each home, and mag- 
 nificent paradises and parks exist in the 
 outskirts of each heavenly society or city. 
 Here the children are allowed to play. 
 Swedenborg saw them there, decked and 
 adorned with garlands of flowers, and when 
 a company of these gay little children en- 
 tered into one of those paradises, he not- 
 iced that the very flowers beamed forth 
 with increased brightness and beauty. 37 The 
 very air they breathe is filled with music 
 and splendor, sometimes sparkling as if with 
 diamonds and rubies and rainbows, at other 
 times as if filled with the tiny faces of smil- 
 ing infants. 38 
 
 In such surroundings, what wonder if 
 
103 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 they forget all about the less beautiful earth 
 they came from, and believe that they were 
 born in heaven as the blessed children of 
 the Lord. No more do they long to return 
 to this world of ours than a butterfly longs 
 to come back to his cocoon. 39 
 
 Not only are they thus enjoying them- 
 selves, and learning to love what the an- 
 gels love; they are also of the greatest use 
 to us on earth, although neither they nor 
 we are aware of it. For the Lord at times 
 uses them as His special little messengers 
 to us, when we are in trouble and when 
 evil spirits infest us. When the infant-spir- 
 its then come near, they bring with them 
 an atmosphere of innocence and peace which 
 is more than the wicked spirits can bear. 
 The evil ones hate the very smell of heaven, 
 and so they flee away and leave us in peace. 
 In this manner the little ones of heaven are 
 really the prote6lors of us strong men on 
 earth. 40 And again, these infants are very 
 often allowed to come and play with the 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 104 
 
 very small children on earth as with their 
 own dolls and comrades. The old folks 
 cannot see them, but the babies feel their 
 presence, and that may be the reason why 
 a baby sometimes crows and laughs so 
 sweetly "at nothing at all," when we leave 
 it alone. 41 
 
 If people only knew and believed what 
 the Lord has told us through Swedenborg, 
 they surely would not cry so hard and 
 break their hearts when one of their chil- 
 dren dies. How much better for the child, 
 and how much better for us, who then have 
 become connected with heaven and drawn 
 nearer to it by a new and living influence. 
 It is selfish to mourn too much over the 
 good fortune of those we love. Nor is it 
 true that we will never see them again. 
 When we ourselves die we can see our lit- 
 tle brothers and sisters and sons and daugh- 
 ters who have gone before us. Swedenborg 
 witnessed many such meetings, and tells us 
 especially of a grown-up man who in the 
 
105 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 other life met a brother who had died in 
 infancy and had been brought up in heaven. 
 This one spoke so tenderly to the newcom- 
 er, and showed such a brotherly affeftion, 
 that the latter was moved to tears in his 
 presence. For children and angels are loves, 
 and love can never forget. 42 
 
 But the children in heaven do not always 
 remain infants. As in this world, they grow 
 older, and as they develop they need a dif- 
 ferent kind of training at each different 
 age. When, therefore, they are about sev- 
 en years old, they are transferred to differ- 
 ent homes and societies. 43 The boys are 
 given into the care of angel masters or 
 teachers, who instru6l them most carefully 
 in all the things that are necessary to know 
 for their future uses and life in heaven. 
 Most of the man-angels are teachers, in one 
 way or another, and the schools in the spir- 
 itual world are far more numerous and per- 
 fect than those in this world. Nearly every- 
 body, old or young, who comes from the 
 
EMANUEL SIVEDENBORG 106 
 
 earth, has to go to school for some time in 
 the other life, before he is fit to enter 
 heaven. Think of all the good people who 
 die all about us and who are in the deep- 
 est ignorance about true religion and heav- 
 enly life ! All such are taught and prepared 
 in places of instruction, but the children 
 have schools of their own, where they are 
 taught especially by means of representations 
 or living pictures which present to the eye 
 the very image of that about which the 
 teacher is instructing them. 44 Everything is 
 thus illustrated, everything is quickly un- 
 derstood, and the school-children can learn 
 ten times faster and many times more than 
 they can learn in the same time on earth. 
 Then, as they grow older, they are sent to 
 other and higher schools, called " gymnasi- 
 ums/' where the young men are taught es- 
 pecially by means of discussions on some 
 given subjecft. The younger pupils express 
 their opinions first, then the older and wiser 
 ones, and finally the head master sums up 
 
107 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 the discussion, and tells the real truth on 
 the subje6l. At such discussions about spir- 
 itual things, beautiful flames of lightning 
 are seen above the " temples of wisdom" in 
 which the meetings are held, and when the 
 conclusion is reached a gentle murmur of 
 thunder is heard, as a sign from the Lord 
 that the truth has been spoken. 45 
 
 But their sports are not only intellect- 
 ual ; they also have games of physical skill 
 of various kinds, with balls and other things, 
 and trials of skill of all sorts, at which the 
 boys who are the brightest and quickest 
 receive the prize. Finally, when their edu- 
 cation is completed, which is when they are 
 about eighteen years of age, they are sent 
 forth from their schools, arrayed in the 
 " wedding garment," and they are then called 
 no longer boys or youths, but " disciples 
 of the Lord." 46 
 
 The young girls are educated in a some- 
 what different manner. 47 After they leave 
 their first nurses, they are given into the 
 
EMANUEL SWEDEN BORG 108 
 
 hands of married women teachers, and are 
 kept in their homes, three or four together, 
 each one having her own bedchamber, where 
 she keeps her clothes and keepsakes. Here 
 they are regularly taught, in ways most 
 suitable to girls, not so much about the 
 mere fa£ts of science and the particular 
 reasons and arguments of doftrine, as about 
 what is becoming and wise in life. They 
 are thus educated especially by cultivating 
 their affection of truth and of wisdom, to- 
 gether with the love of embodying these in 
 corresponding beautiful forms. They are 
 particularly instructed in the art of embroid- 
 ery and decoration, in music and the fine 
 arts, and, as they grow up, they are also 
 taught how to take care of the little infants 
 whom the Lord is ever calling from this 
 world. Every girl naturally loves fine cloth- 
 ing, and so they find new dresses in their 
 closets every day, but if they should desire 
 or think anything that is wrong, they sud- 
 denly discover spots on their garments which 
 
109 CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 cannot be removed until they have exam- 
 ined their hearts and repented of the evils 
 that caused the spots ; then the blemishes 
 vanish of themselves. In the same way, 
 if they see any of their garments miss- 
 ing from their rooms, they know at once 
 that they have a6led wrongly, but if they 
 receive a new garment they recognize it as 
 a sign that they have a6led well. Each one, 
 also, has her own little garden, in which 
 the loveliest flowers grow in abundance, 
 but as long as she is an unmarried girl only 
 flowers grow there, but no fruit, until she 
 becomes a wife. Now if she notices that 
 the flowers in her garden seem drooping or 
 less bright than before, or if coarser plants 
 appear there, she knows that something 
 needs to be amended in her own heart and 
 mind, but if the flowers seem bright, and 
 new and nobler plants appear, she knows 
 that it is well with her. Coins and orna- 
 ments of silver and gold are given to the 
 girls as keepsakes and rewards for diligence 
 
EMANUEL SJVEDENBORG 1 10 
 
 and virtue. Each one has a copy of the 
 written Word, and also hymn books and 
 other books for instruftion and spiritual de- 
 light. They read daily in these, but if some- 
 times they negle6l to read, they find that 
 some of their garments are missing, or their 
 little gardens vanish. 48 The boys and the 
 girls are brought up separately, but still 
 those who are in the same society sometimes 
 meet, and have plays and games together, 
 under the supervision of their masters and 
 governesses. 
 
 Finally, when they are full-grown maid- 
 ens, which is when they are about fifteen 
 years of age, the Lord leads each one to 
 meet the youth who has been born and 
 educated for her and for her alone. They 
 meet as if by chance, but both instantly 
 know that they are intended for one another. 
 Then, after considering this for some time, 
 they meet again and declare their love, and 
 are betrothed. 49 The marriage itself is cele- 
 brated in the heavenly society where the 
 
Ill CHILDREN IN HEAVEN 
 
 young man has been brought up, but after- 
 wards he follows his bride into her society, 
 where a home is provided for them by the 
 Lord. They are now angels and members 
 of the Heavenly Kingdom, and they remain 
 with one another as husband and wife, in a 
 confidence and love and bliss that increase 
 to eternity. 50 
 
APPENDIX II 
 
 LIST OF REFERENCES 
 
 For the convenience of those who may 
 desire to investigate further in respeft to 
 some of the statements made in this little 
 work, we add the following list of authori- 
 ties referred to by numbers in the volume 
 itself. D. stands for the Documents concern- 
 ing Swedenborg, by Dr. R. L. Tafel ; A.C. 
 for the Arcana Ccelestia ; H.H. for Heaven 
 and Hell ; C.L. for Conjugial Love ; and 
 S.D. for the Spiritual Diary: all of these 
 by Swedenborg. 
 
 i. (p. 31.) D. i. p. 699. 
 
 2. (p. 47.) D. ii. 158. 
 
 3. (p. 48.) D. i. 36 ; ii. 426 ; S.D. 397. 
 
 4. (p. 73.) D. i. 31, 32 ; ii. 398, 400. 
 
 5. (p. 73.) D. ii, 730. 
 
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 C.L. 207, 315. 
 
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