did you good, and that you feel ready for another winter's campaign. A little over a week ago I wrote to Mr. Butter, giving him the results of my investigation of the manuscripts, and I also expressed a wish that the Swedenborg Printing Society would not return the manuscripts from London, until I had examined them there. You say, in your letter to Mr. Ahlsbrand, that there are eighteen manuscripts in your care; there ought to be nineteen, according to the records of the Academy. And this confirms a statement which Prof. Pfirsch made to me in Switzerland, in August, that there was one of the Swedenborg manuscripts left in Germany, that it had been for some time in his hands, and that he returned it to Tübingen, I think, and that he has lost sight of it. I shall write at once to the Professor, asking him for a minute account, how and where he has sent the volume. Most probably it is in the library at Tübingen; but, wherever it may be, it will have to be hunted up.

"My surmises, that the 'Memorabilia,' which you considered lost, are the Diarium Majus, which was published by my uncle, I find fully confirmed, by comparing the various catalogues in the Academy, and by consulting the account which my uncle gives of the history of the manuscript. I hope to be able to clear up the whole subject of the lost manuscripts, after I shall have examined those which are now in London. My departure from Stockholm has been delayed from day to day; for there is something new turning up every day, obliging me to extend my stay. After finishing my work at the Academy, I adjourned to the Royal Library, and I have been ever since employed there in examining its treasures, with a view of discovering some additional documents about Swedenborg.

"My search has been most successful, and I have found several documents that have heretofore escaped the attention of Swedenborg's biographers. One of the most important I enclose in my letter, and you will please to hand it to the editor of the Intellectual Repository, for publication. It is a translation of Paper 103, in a collection of documents for Swedish history, entitled 'Anmärkningar I Swenska Historica,' Stockholm, 1786. The author of the paper, Mr. Gjörwell, was for a long time librarian in the Royal Library, and has the reputation of having been a most faithful and trusty observer. He has published a great many collections of Swedish documents.

"I had, also, some beautiful photographic copies taken of the original portraits of Swedenborg, in the castle of Gripsholm, and in the hall of the Royal Academy. The original photographic copies were retouched

by competent artists with the portraits before them, and from these retouched photographs, which are the most beautiful and satisfactory pictures of Swedenborg which I have ever seen, I had a number of smaller copies taken.

"I have, also, succeeded in securing almost a complete set of the original scientific and theological works of Swedenborg, and most of the works published in Sweden for and against Swedenborg, and I have every prospect of making this collection complete.

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My chief attention, however, has been directed towards obtaining an original copy of all the documents about Swedenborg, and of collecting additional material for his biography. I took particular pains to collect all biographies and all biographical notices of Swedenborg which were published in Sweden, and all historical works in which I find him mentioned; some of them were quite expensive.

"And, finally, Mr. Flemming has written for me a circular, in which he calls upon all those who have letters, or papers, or documents about Swedenborg, to send copies of them to the Royal Library for my use. This circular will be sent to all booksellers in Sweden, and will be inserted in the leading Swedish newspapers.

"I have also obtained a clue of a collection of letters of Swedenborg in Stockholm, which I am following up. To-morrow I expect to hear about it. So you see I am quite busy here, and expect to be so for a few days longer, so that I really cannot tell now, how soon I shall be able to leave Stockholm.

“In conclusion, I wish you to express my thanks to the Swedenborg Printing Society, for the trust they repose in me; I shall endeavour to deserve it. Your letter was not quite formal enough to enable me to get out some of the manuscripts; but as soon as an application will be made by the Swedenborg Printing Society to the Academy, in proper form, they will forward the manuscripts to me in London.—Meanwhile, I am yours most truly, R. L. TAFEL."

Conversation between the late Assessor, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the Royal Librarian, C. C. Gjörwell, respecting the Revelations of the former; which took place August 28th, 1764.

Of this the librarian took down a sort of minute, of which the following is a verbatim copy :—

"Royal Library, August 28th, 1764. P.M. "I, the undersigned, have just come from Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg, whom I had asked for his latest works published in Holland, for

the Royal Library.* I met him in his garden, near his house in Södermalm, in Hornsgatan, where he was taking care of his plants, dressed in a common suit of clothes. The house in which he lived was of wood; it was low, and looked like a garden-house; its windows also looked out towards the garden. Without his knowing me, or the object of my visit, he said, smiling-You will surely wish to take a walk in the garden?' I answered him that I wished to have the honour of paying him a visit, and of asking him, in the name of the Royal Library, for a copy of his latest publications, so that we might have his work complete; especially as we had the earlier parts, of which he had made a present to the Royal Secretary Wilde. Yes, with all my heart,' he said; I had, moreover,' he added, "intended to send them there; for my object in publishing them was, that they might become known, and come into the hands of intelligent people.' I thanked him for his kindness; whereupon he showed them to me, and then took a walk with me in the garden. Although he is an old man, and gray hair looked out everywhere under his wig, yet he walked briskly, and talked much and with great vivacity. His countenance was considerably sunken and withered, but looked cheerful and smiling. When, of his own accord, he commenced to speak of his views, which to hear with my own ears had been another one of my objects, I listened to him with great attention, without contesting his positions, and simply interrogating him, for the purpose, as it were, of becoming enlightened. This pleased him very much, so that he went on walking in this manner for a whole hour, and talking with me. The substance of his conversation, and of what I drew from him by polite questions, consisted mainly in what follows:

"His systema doctrinale, or doctrinal system of theology, which, like that of all other Christians, is based upon our common revelation, the Sacred Scripture, consists mainly in this, that sola fides, or faith alone, is a damnable doctrine, and that bona opera, or good works, are the

He had recently returned from a journey abroad, where he had spent most of his time in Amsterdam, and had published the above-mentional volumes, which are these-1. Sapientia Angelica de Divina Providentia, Amst. 1764, pp. 214; 2. Sap. Ang. de Divino Amore and de Div. Sapientia, ib., 1763, pp. 151; 3. Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, ib., 1763, pp. 64; 4. Doctr. N. Hieros. de Scriptura Sacra, ib., 1763, pp. 54; 5. Doctrina Vitae pro Nova Hierosolyma ex Praeceptis Decalogi, ib., 1763, pp. 36; 6. Doctr. Novae Hieros. de Fide, ib., 1763, pp. 23; and 7. Continuatio de Ultimo Judicio et de Mundo Spirituali, ib., 1763, pp. 28; all large 4to. size, and splendidly printed, just like the former works printed in London in the years 1749 to 1758. The whole collection is in the Royal Library in Stockholm, as a present from the author.

right way for our improvement in time, and for a life of blessedness in eternity. In order to come into the faculty or potentia-I use throughout his own terms-of doing them, we must pray to the only God, and also work ourselves, for God does not exercise any power over us; and still less does he work miracles in order to cause our conversion. As to the rest, we ought to live in the same condition, to acquire the same learning, and live and act in the same manner as other honest and welldisposed men and women do; and we ought to lead a temperate and quiet (fromt) life. About the doctrine of atonement, and about the Saviour, he did not say a single word. I am sorry I forgot to ask him about them; but from his utterances about sola fides, or faith alone, we may easily guess what his thoughts are about these our fundamental articles. He also said that it was only on account of having introduced SOLA fides, or faith alone, that Doctor Luther was still suffering in the other world, although he is not among the damned.

"Here, then, an opportunity arose of passing over to his own revelation; for he said that he had often seen and conversed with Doctor Luther. His principium cognoscendi, i.e., the source of his knowledge is a visus et auditus supranaturalis-a supernatural sight and hearing, and the criterium that this principium is verum, or true, and his revelatio vera, i.e., that his revelation is true, is this-that God Himself revealed Himself before him, in May, 1744, while he was in London; after God, for twenty years, had been preparing him by a thorough knowledge of all virtutes physicae et morales in hoc mundo, i.e., a knowledge of all physical and moral powers in this world, for a reception of this new revelation; and since that time he had constantly and without interruption-in una serie-intercourse with God, he saw Him like a sun before his eyes; he spoke with the angels and the departed, and knew everything that happens in the other world, both in heaven and in hell; but nothing of things to come. His calling is, to communicate this new light to the world, and every one that is willing to accept it, will receive it; and for this reason did God make this revelation to him, that he might announce it to others, which he has done, in that language which is at the present day most general in the world, viz., the Latin. He alone has received this revelation, which, also, is a donum particularissimum, a most peculiar gift; which he uses for the enlightenment of mankind. He who does not despise this light, and does not contend against this revelation, receives it, and it is a living truth. The tendency of all this really is, that a New Jerusalem shall be raised up among men, that is, that a nova ecclesia, a New Church is at hand,

and that his writings mainly treat about the nature of this Church, and the way of coming into it. Of all this he spoke with full conviction, adding the following memorable words:- All this I see and know without being the subject of any visions, and without being a fanatic; but when I am alone, then my soul is as it were out of my body, and in the other world; I have, however, the same appearance which I have now. But when I think about what I am to write, and while I am writing, then I have a perfect inspiration, otherwise, this would be my own; but now I know for certain, that what I am writing is a living truth of God.'

"When anyone dies, he does not lay aside the peculiar bias of his soul. This he takes with him. Whereupon I could not refrain from asking him after the occupation of Professor D. Nils Wallerius, which he said consisted in his still holding disputations.

"His earlier books he had printed in London, but his later ones in Amsterdam. But he had nevertheless been in England in order to present them to the Academy of Science [the Royal Society?]; and on his return home he presented them, in Copenhagen, to the King of Denmark; just as he presented them last week to both their majesties in Drotningholm. They were everywhere well received. He had only twelve copies with him in this country, of which he had destined four for the public libraries, and other four for our principal bishops.

"That all this has been Swedenborg's own relation, and that everything that I wrote above I have seen and heard with my bodily eyes and my bodily ears, I testify with the signature of my name. "CARL CHRISTOPHER GJÖRWELL."

PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.

THERE is a tendency to separate profession and practice, in all things with which imperfect and sinful man has to do, but more especially with regard to religion. This, no doubt, may be accounted for from the circumstance that religion lays on its adherents higher obligations and more important duties, and demands of them greater sacrifices and larger charities, than the laws of moral and civil life. Every one who acknowledges the authority of the Scriptures, in that acknowledgment admits, and even virtually maintains, that a higher standard of excellence is established by the Divine law than by any human system of morals or code of laws. But if with that acknowledgment there is little or no striving after the life to which it is designed to lead, there is a necessary inconsistency, and an increasing tendency to settle down in a