went together into another apartment, where she posted M. de Schwerin at the door, and advanced towards the furthest extremity of it with Swedenborg, who said to her, "You took, Madam, your last leave of the prince of Prussia, your late and august brother, at Charlottenburg, on such a day, and at such an hour of the afternoon. As you were passing afterwards through the long gallery, in the castle of Charlottenburg, you met him again. He then took you by the hand, and led you to such a window, where you could not be overheard, and then said to you these words....." The queen did not repeat the words, but protested to us they were the very same her brother had pronounced, and that she retained the most perfect recollection of them. She added, that she had nearly fainted with the shock she experienced, and called on M. de Schwerin to answer for the truth of what she had said, who in his laconick style contented himself with saying, "All you have said, Madam, is perfectly true, at least as far as I am concerned.” I ought to add, that though the queen laid great stress on the truth of her recital, she .professed herself at the same time incredulous to Swedenborg's supposed conferences with the dead. "A thousand events," said she," appear inexplicable and supernatural to us, who know only the immediate consequences of them; and men of quick parts, who are never so well pleased as when they exhibit something wonderful, take advantage of this to gain an extraordinary reputation. M. Swedenborg was a man of learning, and of some talent in this way, but I cannot imagine by what means he obtained the knowledge of what could have been repeated to no one. However, I have no faith in his having had a conference with my brother."

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.

Gennadius, a physician, a man of eminence in piety and charity, had in his youth some doubts of the reality of another life. He saw one night in a dream a young man of a celestial figure, who bade him follow him. The apparition led him into a magnificent city, in which his ears were charmed by melodious music, which far exceeded the most enchanting harmony that he had ever heard. To the inquiry from whence proceeded those ra

vishing sounds, his conductor answered, that they were the hymns of the blessed in heaven, and disappeared. Gennadius awoke, and the impression of the dream was dissipated by the transactions of the day. The following night, the same young man appeared, and asked whether he recollected him ?-The melodious songs which I heard last night, answered Gennadius, are now brought again to my memory-Did you hear them, said the apparition, dreaming or awake?—I heard them in a dream.-True, replies the young man, and our present conversation is a dream; but where is your body, while I am speaking to you ?-In my chamber. But know you not that your eyes are shut, and that you cannot see? My eyes, indeed, are shut.-How then can you see? Gennadius could make no answer. In your dream, the eyes of your body are closed and useless; but you have others, with which you see me. Thus, after death, although the eyes of your flesh are deprived of sense and motion, you will remain alive, and capable of sight and of hearing by means of your spiritual part. Cease then to entertain a doubt of the great truth of another life after death!-By this occurrence, Gennadius affirms that he became a sincere believer in a future state.

EXTRACT

From the Hawkstone Report, No. XI. of 5th July, 1816.

THE REPORT

Of a Meeting of Ladies and Gentlemen from Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. admirers and receivers of the Theological Writings of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, which meeting was held from Tuesday, the 2nd of July, to the morning of Friday, the 5th of the same month.

Before dinner, on the first day of the meeting, Mr. James Meredith, of Birmingham, was appointed president; Mr. T. S. Fogg, of Manchester, vice-president; and Mr. Nathaniel Shelmerdine, of Manchester, secretary.

The next morning, after breakfast, the business of the meeting was introduced by reading the Psalms appointed for the morning service of the day, and by repeating the LORD's Prayer.

The last Hawkstone Report was then read, and in adverting to the Resolution which it contained, respecting a plan for opening a fuller communication between the different societies of the receivers of the heavenly doctrines of the New Jerusalem, in different parts of the globe, the following letter from the secretary of the Society at Philadelphia was read, together with the Circular annexed to it, by which it appears, that the Resolution has already been attended with the beneficial effects which it was calculated to produce, in the way of opening and accelerating communication.

"Chas. Aug. Tulk, Esq.

Philadelphia, March 14, 1816.

"Dear Sir,-In order that you may be kept advised of the proceedings of "The American Society, for disseminating the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church," established at Philadelphia, I transmit to you the annexed Circular, which has been distributed by us as widely as occasion has offered.

"We trust that our call for books may have reached you in due time, and that we shall be gratified by the receipt of an early supply.

"I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,

"CONDY RAGUET." (Here follows the Circular of March 1, published at page 5.) The Report of the sixth annual meeting of the Society for printing and publishing the writings of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, instituted in London, in the year 1810, was then read, when the following Resolution was passed unanimously:

Resolved. That this Meeting wish to express their warm approbation of the plan adopted by the London Society, in regard to the circulation of the Small Tracts, printed and published by the Manchester Society, from a conviction that those Tracts are not only found useful as a vehicle of religious instruction to the minds of young persons, but also as having a tendency to lead those who are advanced to greater maturity of age, to make inquiry after the heavenly doctrines of the New Jerusalem, in which the instruction contained in the Tracts is grounded.

Afterwards the last Manchester Report was read, when the following Resolution was passed unanimously:

Resolved. That this Meeting, taking a lively interest in observing the animated exertions making by the members of the

LORD's New Church in Philadelphia, North America, to disperse the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem, unite their most devout prayers for the success of their benevolent intentions. The Meeting are particularly gratified, at noting the endeavours of the Philadelphia Society to obtain intelligence respecting the progress of the New Doctrines among other societies and individuals of the vast continent on which they dwell, since, by such intelligence, it is to be hoped, a fuller communication may be effected, and a more harmonious union of operation established, not only amongst the American Societies themselves, but of the American Societies with all other Societies on the face of the habitable globe. The Society therefore cannot help regarding and rejoicing in the labours of their American Brethren, as a happy prelude, under the Divine Providence of the MOST HIGH, both to a more complete dissemination of the seed of the New Kingdom throughout the earth, and also to its greater fruitfulness, by knitting together the various societies and individuals, who have already received that seed, in a closer bond of spiritual relationship, intercourse, and communication of that good-will and charity, to which all the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem so immediately point, and in the promotion of which they all centre.

THURSDAY MORNING.

The Meeting was again opened by reading the portion of the Psalms appointed for the morning service, and repeating the LORD's Prayer, after which the following Resolution was passed unanimously:

Resolved. That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that it may tend much to promote the knowledge and circulation of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem, if both at this, and at all other public Meetings for the support and propagation of those Doctrines, a temperate, yet full and warm recommendation of the leading and essential truths which they contain, be laid before the public, in the form of an advertisement, in some of the public papers.

Resolved unanimously. That the following form of advertisement be adopted :

Hawkstone Inn, Hawkstone Park, July 4th, 1816. AT a meeting of Gentlemen, assembled at this place, for the purpose of taking into consideration and of giving greater publi

city to the Doctrines contained in the Theological Writings of the Honourable EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, which are intended for the instruction and benefit of all sects and parties of professing Christians,

Mr. JAMES MEREDITH, of Birmingham, in the chair; It was unanimously resolved: That from a conviction of the great importance of those Doctrines, and of their tendency to promote the best interests of mankind, they be earnestly recommended to the devout perusal of all orders and degrees of Christians, on the following grounds :

1st. As leading to the true knowledge of GOD, WHO and WHAT He is, together with the mode of His operation, and thus conducting the pious reader to that pure and unperplexed worship of his CREATOR, which is at once most profitable to himself, and most acceptable to its DIVINE OBJECT.

2ndly. As striking at the root of the Arian and Socinian heresies, by asserting the SUPREME AND SOLE DIVINITY of the GREAT SAVIOUR, or his one-ness with the ETERNAL FATHER, called in the Old Testament JEHOVAH.

Srdly. As announcing and confirming the full and divine inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, and thus annihilating the Creed of the Deist and Infidel, whilst it is shewn that what is commonly CALLED the WORD OF GOD, really is the WORD OF GOD, and how it is so.

4thly. As illustrating many parts of the Holy Volume, and by such illustrations bringing to light the internal sense and genuine meaning of the Divine Oracles, by virtue whereof apparent contradictions between the Letter and the Divine Idea which it is intended to express are reconciled, apparent futilities are presented to view in their proper importance and dignity, and apparent obscurities are made clear and intelligible to all, who, like the wise merchantman, are seeking the goodly pearls of heavenly wisdom and instruction.

5thly. As unfolding a Law or Rule of Christian life, which is at once simple and of easy apprehension, full and purifying, yet practicable, and in the most complete accord with all the revealed counsels of the MOST HIGH. By virtue of this law or rule, the sacred and eternal union is endeavoured to be restored between those three essentials of salvation, charity, faith, and good works; also between moral, civil, and spiritual life, and