After the year 1745, his disciples never saw him do a single thing from any human motive.

One man alone, a Swedish priest, named Mathesius, set afloat a story that he went mad in London in 1744.

But a eulogium on Swedenborg prepared with minute care as to all the known events of his life, was pronounced after his death in 1772 on behalf of the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Hall of the Nobles at Stockholm, by Monsieur Sandels, counsellor of the Board of Mines.

A declaration made before the Lord Mayor of London gives the details of his last illness and death, in which he received the ministrations of Monsieur Ferelius a Swedish priest of the highest standing, and pastor of the Swedish Church in London, Mathesius being his assistant.

All persons present attested that so far from denying the value of his writings Swedenborg firmly asserted their truth.