The Mortal Remains of Swedenborg 



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Until 1857 no monument, not even any inscription in the church, 

 had marked the spot where Emanuel Swedenborg rested. In that 

 year, wheii the first cycle of the 

 new era which the followers of 



Swedenborg begin with the con- 

 summation of the master's work. 

 De Ultimo Jtidicio, had come to 

 a close, Mr. J. S. Hodson request- 

 ed permission to place a memo- 

 rial tablet with a suitable inscrip- 

 tion in the church. Permission 

 was granted by the Church Coun- 

 cil "on October 14th, 1857, {Appen- 

 dix^ No. 9), and a white marble 

 tablet was placed on the southern 

 wall of the church choir. 



Late in the year 1900, 

 the president of the Swedenborg 

 Committee of the Royal Acade- 

 my of Sciences, Professor Gustaf 

 Retzius, having heard of the re- 

 moval of the Swedish Congrega- 

 tion in London to the West End, 

 and that the Church building might 

 be torn down in consequence, 

 caused the Swedenborg Committee to approach the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences with a memorial recommending the removal of Swedenborg's 

 remains to Sweden. The Academy, viewing the recommendation with 

 favor, thereupon approached the Swedish Government on the subject 

 in January, 1907, which, after the consent of the British Go^'ernment 

 had been secured, resolved that the Swedish cruiser »Fylgia>>, retur- 



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Memorial tablet to Ejianuei, Swedenborg in 

 the Swedish Church in Lmnlnii. 



ning from foreign waters to Sweden in the spring of 1908, should carry 

 the casket containing the remains of the great Swedish thinker to his 

 native country. 



After the Swedish Legation in London had on March 4th, 1908, 

 opened the grave, and a photograph of the vault had been taken, and 

 after a preparatory examination of the coffin, which, according to the 

 name-plates fastened on it, contained the remains of Emanuel Sweden- 

 borg, had been made, a new oaken casket was procured, in which the 



Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sc. Ups. Ser. 4. Vol. 2. N. 9. Impr. '^^'lo 1910. ■ 3 



