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LITERATURE OF THE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH.

began to indulge in religious musings to which he had been inclined from his early boyhood. Mysticism at length got complete control of him; he became a seer, and in his numerous works he developed his wonderful theosophical system, which soon after his death was greatly ridiculed and disputed, but which even at the present time has many followers.[1]

  1. Emanuel Swedenborg: Arcana Cœlestia I-VIII, London, 1749-56.