Swedenborg2

Op zaterdag 19 juli 1759 brak er een grote brand uit in Stockholm. Doordat er een harde wind stond verspreidde het vuur zich snel, uiteindelijk zijn er zo’n 300 huizen afgebrand, 2000 mensen raakten dakloos. Door de omvang van de ramp zijn er genoeg getuigenverklaringen en is de brand goed gedocumenteerd. Toen de brand uitbrak was Swedenborg aan het dineren met vrienden in Gotenburg, ongeveer 400 kilometer van Stockholm.
Rond 6 uur raakte hij geagiteerd en zij tegen zijn vrienden dat er een brand woedde in Stockholm, die de huizen van zijn buren had verteerd en zijn eigen huis bedreigde. Twee uur later verklaarde hij opgelucht dat de brand 3 deuren voor zijn voordeur was gestopt.
In de opwinding die op zijn rapport volgde, bereikte het verhaal zelfs de oren van gouverneur van de provincie, die hem nog diezelfde avond op het matje riep.
In die tijd duurde het 2 tot 3 dagen alvorens het nieuws uit Stockholm Gotenburg per koerier had bereikt.
At that time, it took two to three days for news from Stockholm to reach Gothenburg by courier, so that is the shortest duration in which the news of the fire could reach Gothenburg. The first messenger from Stockholm with news of the fire was from the Board of Trade who arrived Monday evening. The second messenger was a royal courier, who arrived on Tuesday. Both of these reports confirmed every statement to the precise hour that Swedenborg first expressed the information. The accounts are fully described in Bergquist, pp. 312–313 and in Chapter 31 of The Swedenborg Epic.
It seems unlikely in the extreme that the many witnesses to Swedenborg’s distress during the fire, and his immediate report of it to the provincial governor would have left room for doubt in the public eye of Swedenborg’s report. Indeed, if Swedenborg had only received news of the fire by the normal methods there would have been no issue of psychic perception recorded for history. .
In a second fire anecdote, similar to the first one, but less cited, is the incident of the mill owner Bolander. Swedenborg warned him, again abruptly, of an incipient fire in one of his mills.
Queen of Sweden
The third event was in 1758 when Swedenborg visited Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, who asked him to tell her something about her deceased brother Prince Augustus William of Prussia. that turned the Queen pale and she explained that this was something only she and her brother could know about.
De volgende dag fluisterde Swedenborg iets in haar oren en de koningin werd bleek omdat niemand dat kon weten, behalve zij en haar broer .
Lost document
The fourth incident involved a woman who had lost an important document, and came to Swedenborg asking if a recently deceased person could tell him where it was, which he (in some sources) was said to have done the following night.
Although not typically cited along with these three episodes, there was one further piece of evidence of possible pertinence here: Swedenborg was noted by the seamen of the ships that he sailed between Stockholm and London to always have excellent sailing conditions. When asked about this by a friend, Swedenborg played down the matter, saying he was surprised by this experience himself and that he was certainly not able to do miracles.

2. First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. Throughout all heaven no other than the Lord alone is acknowledged as the God of heaven. There it is said, as He Himself taught,
That He is one with the Father; that the Father is in Him, and He in the Father; that he who sees Him sees the Father; and that everything that is holy goes forth from Him (John 10:30, 35; 14:9-11; 16:13-15).
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. They also said that those of the church who come from this world having an idea of three Divine beings cannot be admitted into heaven, since their thought wanders from one Divine being to another; and it is not allowable there to think three and say one