1 the life and character of emanuel swedenborg collected, translated, and annotated by rl tafel, am

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THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
COLLECTED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED
BY
R. L. TAFEL, A. M., PH. D.
VOLUME II, PART II.
SWEDENBORG SOCIETY, BRITISH AND FOREIGN
36 BLOOMSBURY STREET, LONDON
1877
CONTENTS
SECTION XI.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS.
DOCUMENT
277.-Swedenborg on the Death of the Prince of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld
278.-The Rev. F. Okely on Swedenborg
279.-Klopstock's Visit to Swedenborg
280.-Anecdote related by Wenngren
281.-Swedenborg in Paris in 1769
282.-Professor J. H. Lidn on Swedenborg
283.-Swedenborg discussed in the Swedish periodical Literature from 1763-1766
A. "Swenska Mercurius"
B. "Swenska Magazinet"
284.-Swedenborg's own Lists of his theological Writings
A. In the "Conjugial Love"
B. In the "Doctrine of the Lord"
285.-Swedenborg's Work on "The Worship and Love of God"
286.-Fate of the confiscated copies of the Work on "Conjugial Love"
287.-Preservation from Fire of Swedenborg's "Apocalypsis Explicata"
288.-Information collected by a Swedish biographer of Swedenborg
289.-Professor Scherer's Anecdote about Swedenborg
290.-Professor Atterbom's Anecdote respecting Swedenborg
291.-Sundry Anecdotes respecting Swedenborg
1.About Swedenborg's not locking his door
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2.Anecdote told by G. Swederus
3.Anecdote about Bishop Halenius' children
4.Madame De Frese's Anecdote
5.Fryxell's Anecdote
6.Dr. A. Kahl's Anecdote
292.-Swedenborg and his Gardener-Folks
293.-Was Swedenborg a Freemason?
294.-Documents collected by Mr. Wm. White
A-C Bishop Swedberg's letters to the King
D. Bishop Swedberg to lord-Lieutenant Feif
E, F. Bishop Swedberg to the King
295.-Swedenborg to Trier, the Aulic Councillor in Dresden
296.-Swedenborg's Claims against P. Schnstrom
A. Letter addressed to the County Court at Skinskatteberg
B, C. Two Promissory Notes
297.-A List of Valuables
298.-Private Memoranda
299.-Swedenborg's thoughts on reading Swammerdam's "Biblia Natur"
300.-The Signification of the Horse and Hieroglyphics
301.-Sketch of an Ecclesiastical History of the New Church
302.-Additions to the "True Christian Religion"
A. Additions to No. 695
B. Additions to No. 338
C. Concerning Order
D. The Order of Influx
E. Reciprocal Conjunction
F. Concerning Influx
G. Thoughts of Materialists respecting God
H. Memorable Relation respecting a Council in Constantinople
I. Miscellanea
J. Concerning Odours
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K. The Being of God or Jehovah
L. Concerning Redemption
M. Concerning the Lord
303.-Last Work projected by Swedenborg, entitled the "Consummation of the Age, the Lord's
Second Coming, and the New Church"
SECTION XII.

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SWEDENBORG'S PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED
WRITINGS.

INTRODUCTION
304.-Catalogue of Swedenborg's MSS. prepared by his Heirs in 1772
A. Theological Works
B. Philosophical Works
C. Letters and Documents
305.-A List of Swedenborg's MSS. published in 1782 by A. J. Pernety
306.-A List of Swedenborg's MSS. published in 1785 by B. Chastanier
307.-First classified Catalogue of the Swedenborg MSS. in the Library of the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm, prepared in 1787 by J. Bjrnstjerna
A. In large oblong folio
B. In smaller oblong folio
C. In quarto
D. In octavo

308.-Official Catalogue of the Swedenborg Library in the Academy of Sciences
A. Catalogue of Swedenborg's Writing presented by his heirs to the Academy of
Sciences
B. Report of an Inventory of the Swedenborgian Deposit taken in 1841
309.-The Missing Swedenborg MSS. and their Discovery
A. The Missing MSS. identified
B. Documentary Account of the first instalment of the Swedenborg MSS. Brought to England
in 1783 804
C. Second Instalment of the Swedenborg MSS. brought to England in 1788
D. Subsequent History of the Swedenborg MSS. in England
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E. Description of the Swedenborg MSS. received by the Swedenborg Society in 1841
F. An Interrogatory of the Swedenborg Society answered by the
Secretary of the Academy of Sciences
G. Attempts made by Swedenborg's Heirs to recover his MSS. from the Academy of
Sciences
H. A Royal Decision affirming the Right of the Academy of Sciences to the MSS. of
Swedenborg
I. The Academy of Sciences claims the Swedenborg MSS. from the Swedenborg Society
(a) The Royal Academy to the Swedenborg Society
(b) Baron Berzelius to Mr. W. M. Wilkinson, Secretary of the Swedenborg Society
J. Report of a special General Meeting of the Swedenborg Society in 1842
K. Action of the Royal Academy on receiving a copy of the foregoing Report
L. Discovery of additional MSS.
M. Summary of the History of the Missing Swedenborg MSS.

310.-Analysis of the Swedenborg MSS. in the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm
Codex 1. "Sensus Propheticus"
Codices 2. and 3. "Memorabilia"
Codex 4. "Index Biblicus Veteris Testamenti"
Codex 5. "Index Biblicus Novi Testamenti"
Codex 6. "Index Biblicus of Isaiah and Genesis"
Codex 7. "An Index of Memorabilia"
Codices 8-10. "Arcana Coelestia"
Codex 11. "De Charitate"
Codex 12. "De Ultimo Judicio"
Codex 13. "De Divino Amore"
Codex 14. "De Conjugio"
Codices 15-26. "Arcana Coelestia"
Codices 27-35. "Apocalypsis Explicata"
Codex 36. "Excerpts from Aristotle, Plato," &c.
Codex 38. "Index Physiologicorum"
Codex 39. "Index Biblicus Nominum Propriorum"
Codices 40 and 41. "Index Biblicus"
Codices 42-45. "Index Memorabilium"
Codex 46. Index to a MS. "de Amore Conjugiali"
Codex 49. "Biblical Sentences collected under leading heads"
Codex 50. "Index to the Concordia Book"
Codex 51. "De Cultu et Amore Dei"
Codex 52. "Letters to Beyer"
Codex 53. "Anatomica et Physiologica"
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Codex 54. "Physiologica et Metaphysica
Codex 55. "Anatomica et Physiologica"
Codex 56. "Riksdagsskrifter"
Codex 57. "Anatomica, Physiologica Varia"
Codex 58. "Anatomica et Physiologica"
Codices 59-61. "Explicatio in Verbum Historicum Vet. Test. Tomi III"
Codex 62. "Esajas et Jeremias Explicati"
Codex 63. (Borrowed by Nordenskld)
Codex 65. "Anatomica et Physiologica"
Codex 68. "De Cultu et Amore Dei"
Codex 74. "Anatomica et Physiologica, 4to"
Codex 79. "Clavis Hieroglyphica"
Codex 80. "Arcana Coelestia"
Codex 81. "De Magnete"
Codices 82-85. "De Sulphure, de Sale Communi, de Secretione Argenti et
Cupri, de Vitriole"
Codex 86. "Geometrica et Algebraica"
Codex 88. "Varia Philosophica, Anatomica, et Itineraria"
Codices 89 and 90. "Biblia Latina Sebastiani Schmidii in 4to"
Codex 95. (taken by Nordenskld)
Codex 99. "Beskrifning fwer Swenska Masugnar"
Codex 103. "Index Rerum in Apocalypsis Revelata"
Codex 110. "Index to the Spiritual Diary"
Codex 111. "Diarium Spirituale i. e. Diarium Minus"
Codex 112. "Complete Index to the Arcana Coelestia"
Codex 113. "Index to the Earlier Volumes of the Arcana Coelestia"

311.-List of Swedenborg's Scientific Papers preserved in the Cathedral-Library of
Linkping
312.-An Analysis of the Collection of Swedenborg's Letters
313.-Swedenborg's Published and Unpublished Writings in Chronological Order
(1.) "Select Sentences of L. A. Seneca and P. S. Minus"
(2.) "The Rule of Youth and the Mirror of Old Age"
(3.) "To Sophia Brenner"
(4.) "Camena Borea" or "the Northern Muse"
(5.) "Ludus Heliconius" or "the Heliconian Sport"
(6.) "Cantus Sapphicus" or a "Sapphic Poem"
(7.) "Ddalus Hyperboreus"
(8.) "The Tin-ware of Stjernsund"
(9.) "Importance of instituting an Astronomical Observatory"
(10.) "De Causis Rerum" or "On the Causes of Things"
(11.) "A New Theory concerning the End of the Earth"
(12.) "On the mode of assisting Commerce and Manufactures"
(13.) "A memorial on Salt-works in Sweden"
(14.) "The nature of Fire and Colours"
(15.) "Regelkonsten" or "Algebra"
(16.) "Contributions to Geometry and Algebra"
(17.) "Attempt at finding the Longitude by the Moon," Swedish edition
(18.) "Om Jordens Gng och Stnd" or "the Moon," Swedish edition
(19.) "Om Watness Hgd" or "the great Depth of Water in the primeval World"
(20.) "Description of Swedish Iron Furnaces"
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(21.) "Anatomy of our most subtle Nature"
(22.) "New Directions for discovery Metallic Veins"
(23.) "Docks, canal-locks, and saltworks"
(24.) "The Decimal System"
(25.) "The Rise and Fall of Lake Wenner"
(26.) "First Principles of Natural Things" or the "lesser Principia"
(27.) "Letter to Jacob Melle"
(28.) "Principles of Chemistry"
(29.) "New Observations respecting Iron and Fire"
(30.) "A New Method for finding the Longitude," Latin edition
(31.) "Docks and Dykes," Latin edition
(32.) "New Rules for maintaining Heat in Rooms"
(33.) "Miscellanea Observata" or "Miscellaneous Observations"
(34.) "Fable of the Love of the Muse Urania"
(35.) "A Law of Hydrostatics"
(36.) "The Fall and Rise in Swedish Money"
(37.) "The Magnet and its Qualities"
(38.) "The genuine Treatment of Metals"
(39.) "The Motion of the elements in general"
(40.) "Papers belonging to the Principia"
(41.) "The Mechanism of the Soul and Body"
(42.) "Comparison of Wolf's Ontology and Cosmology with Swedenborg's Principia"
(43.) "Swedenborg's Anatomical Observations"
(44.) "Itinerarium" or "Journal of Travels for 1733 and 1734"
(45.) "Opera Philosophica et Mineralia"
Vol. I. "Principia"
Vol. II. "Treatise on Iron"
Vol. III. "Treatise on Copper"
(46.) "Outlines of the Infinite, and the Mechanism of the operation of Soul and Body"
(47.) "An Abstract of the Principia"
(48.) "Fragments of Three Transactions on the Brain"
(49.) "Intinerarium" or "Journal of Travels from 1736-1739"
(50.) "The Way to the Knowledge of the soul"
(51.) "Faith and Good Works"
(52.) "onomia Regni Animalis"
(53.) Philosophy of Universals"
(54.) "The Bones of the Skull and Ossification"
(55.) "Corpuscular Philosophy"
(56.) "Anatomy of the larger and lesser Brains"
- "Two Dissertations on the Nervous Fibre and the Nervous Fluid," their authorship
determined
- "Thoughts on the Origin of the Soul and Hereditary Evil," wrongly attributed to
Swedenborg
(57.) "Introduction to Rational Psychology," Part I
(58.) "The Declination of the Magnetic Needle"
(59.) "Introduction to Rational Psychology" Part II
(60.) "Hieroglyphic Key"
(61.) "Concordance of the three systems concerning the Intercourse between the Soul and
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the Body"
(62.) "The Red blood"
(63.) "The Animal Spirit"
(64.) "Sensation, or the Passion of the Body"
(65.) "The origin and propagation of the Soul"
(66.) "Action"
(67.) "Rational Psychology"
(68.) "The Signification of Philosophical Terms or Ontology"
(69.) "Anatomy of the human body, treating of the Generative Organs and the Senses"
(70.) "Digest of Swammerdam's Biblia Natur"
(71.) "Regnum Animale," Parts I and II
(72.) "Private Diary for 1743 and 1744"
(73.) "On Sense in General, its influx into the soul, and the reaction of the latter"
(74.) "The Muscles of the Face and Abdomen"
(75.) "Physical and Optical Experiments"
(76.) "On the Brain"
(77.) "Regnum Animale," Part III
The New Series of the "Regnum Animale"
The Old Series of the "Regnum Animale"
(78.) "The Worship and Love of God," Parts I & II
(79.) "Worship and Love of God," Part III
(80.) "History of Creation as related by Moses"
(81.) "The Messiah about to come into the World"
(82.) "Explanation of the historical Word of the Old Testament," also called the
"Adversaria," Parts I-III
(83.) "Index Biblicus to the historical books of the Old Testament
(84.) "Esaiah and Jeremiah" also called "Adversaria," Part IV
(85.) "Notes on Jeremiah and the Lamentations"
(86.) "Index Biblicus to Isaiah, and a portion of Jeremiah and Genesis
(87.) "Memorabilia" or "Spiritual Diary," Part I
(88.) "Fragments of Notes on Genesis and Exodus"
(89.) "Fragments of Notes on Prophets"
(90.) "Names of Men, Countries, Kingdoms, and Towns in the Sacred Scripture"
(91.) Index Biblicus to the Prophets, Psalms, Job, the Apocalypse and likewise to Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
(92.) "Index Biblicus to the New Testament"
(93.) "Memorabilia" or "Spiritual Diary," Part II
(94.) "Arcana Coelestia, which are in Genesis"
(95.) "Arcana Coelestia, which are in Exodus"
(96.) "Memorabilia" or "Spiritual Diary," Part III
(97.) "Do.," Part IV
(98.) "Index to the 'Adversaria' and the 'Memorabilia," Parts I-IV"
(99, A.) "Memorabilia" or "Spiritual Diary, Part V"
(99, B.) "Index to the 'Memorabilia,' Parts III-V
(100.) "Index to the Arcana Coelestia
(101.) "Heaven and Hell"
(102.) "The White Horse
(103.) "The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine"
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(104.) The Earths in the Universe"
(105.) "The Last Judgment"
(106.) "Apocalypse Explained" (posthumous)
(107.) "The Athanasian Creed" (posthumous)
(108.) "The Lord" (posthumous)
(109.) "Internal Sense of the Prophets and Psalms" (posthumous)
(110.) "Papers for the Swedish Diet"
(111.) "The Last Judgment" (posthumous)
(112.) "The Spiritual World" (posthumous)
(113.) "The Sacred Scripture, or the Word of the Lord from experience" (posthumous)
(114.) "He precepts of the Decalogue," a sketch (posthumous)
(115.) "Observations on Faith" (posthumous)
(116.) "Doctrine of the Lord"
(117.) "Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture"
(118.) "Doctrine of Life"
(119.) "Doctrine of Faith"
(120.) "Continuation of the Last Judgment"
(121.) "On Inlaying Marble-slabs for Tables" etc.
(122.) "The Divine Love"
(123.) "The Divine Wisdom"
(124.) "Divine Love and Wisdom"
(125.) "Divine Providence"
(126.) "Doctrine of Charity"
(127.) "Apocalypse Revealed"
(128.) "Method of Finding the Longitude," of 1766
(129.) "On the Horse and Hieroglyphics"
(130.) "Index to the 'Apocalypse Revealed'"
(131.) "Five Memorable Relations"
(132.) "Conversation with Angels"
(133.) First work on "Conjugial Love"
(134.) "Memorabilia on Marriage"
(135.) "Conjugial Love"
(136.) "The natural and spiritual sense of the Word"
(137.) "Justification and Good Works"
(138.) "Outlines of the Doctrines of the New Church"
(139.) "Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church"
(140.) "Intercourse between the Soul and the Body"
(141.) "An Answer to a Letter written by a friend"
(142.) "Nine Queries concerning the Trinity," &c.
(143.) "The Canons of the New Church"
(144.) "Dicta Probantia" or "Corroborating Passages from the Old and New Testaments"
(145.) "True Christian Religion"
(146.) "Additions to the 'True Christian Religion'"
(147.) "An Ecclesiastical History of the New Church"
(148.) "A Summary of the Coronis," &c.
(149.) "Coronis, or Appendix to the 'True Christian Religion'"
(150.) "The Consummation of the Age, Invitation to the New Church," &c.
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SECTION XIII.
APPENDIX.
314.-Swedenborg and tinger
A. tinger to Duke Charles of Wrtemberg
B. tinger to Swedenborg, in 1767
C. tinger to Declaration to the Privy Council of Wrtemberg
D. Dr. G. Beyer to Prelate tinger
E..Extracts from tinger's Letters to Count von Castell
F. tinger to Hartmann

315.-Wm. Cookworthy's Testimony
NOTES TO VOLUME III (Vol. II Part II)
NOTE
228. J. A. Tulk
229. Henry Peckitt
230. Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson
231. Swedenborg's Portraits
232. Flaxman
233. Charles A. Tulk
234. Swedenborg's Skull
235. Bishop Forsenius
236. The Brothers Kns
237. Rev. Samuel Noble
238. John Wesley
239. Rev. Isaac Hawkins
J. I. Hawkins, the engineer
240. Rev. Manoah Sibly
241. Wm. Gomm
242. Immanuel Kant
243. "The Englishman Green"
244. Thibault, the Academician
245. Merian, the Academician
246. Augustus William, Prince of Prussia
247. Count J. Ph. Von Schwerin
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248. Captain Stlhammar
249. (a) Chamberlain von Ammon
(b) Countess von Schwerin
(c) Certificate of marriage of Madame de Marteville
250. Sophia Albertina, Princess of Sweden
251. Chevalier Beylon
252. Bishop C. G. Nordin
253. L. L. von Brenkenhoff
254. Anders Fryxell
Review of his "Biography of Swedenborg"
255. Count C. Rudenskld
256. Count Lars von Engestrom
257. Rev. F. Okely
258. Prof. J. F. Lidn
259. Archbishop Troilius
260. Christian Johansen
261. Professor J. B. von Scherer
262. Professor D. A. Atterbom
263. Baron von Beskow
264. Dr. C. A. Wetterbergh
265. G. Swederus
266. H. G. Porthan
267. Wm. White
268. C. Benzelstjerna
269. P. W. Wargentin
270. J. C. Wilke
271. Baron J. Berzelius
272. Rev. Manoah Sibly
273. Rev. J. Proud
274. C. G. von Brinkman
275. J. F. Fhrus
276. Martin Schurigius
277. Leeuwenhoek
278. Swammerdam
279. Heister
280. Morgagni
281. Boerhaave
282. A. Nuck
283. Winslow
284. Albinus
285. Lancisi
286. Cassebohm
287. Malpighi
288. Willis
289. Vieussens
290. Bartholin