Published in 1758, this is the best-known of Swedenborg's works. It describes the nature of life after death and of the internal state, or 'ruling love', of the individual that determines his or her situation in the afterlife.
Emanuel Swedenborg was born in 1688, and three hundred years on he is remembered mainly for his visionary insight and his theological writings. He was, however, a man with interests both worldly and other-worldly. His studies in physics, mineralogy, anatomy, psychology, and spiritualism all anticipated major modern discoveries well before their ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: T A PRICELESS JEWEL HE conjugial inclination of one man to one wife is the jewel of human life and the depository of the Christian religion. ?Conjugial Love, n. 457 ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: supper, manifestly contrary to its institution, and this under feigned pretences, and solely for the sake of the daily and nightly sacrifices of the mass, by which ...
An upbeat discussion of "life after death" by the West's most brilliant Protestant mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), who lived through the death process himself & spent many subsequent years traversing spiritual realms at will. A renowned scientist-turned-Christian mystic with telepathic capabilities, Swedenborg has been the subject of ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanuel Swedberg (1688-1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Emanuel studied physics, mechanics, and philosophy, read and wrote poetry. He had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1715 he devoted himself to natural science and engineering projects for the next two ...
"Swedenborg is like a whole Himalayan Range of the mind. This biography, ...as from a mountain top, presents the whole vista of wisdom." - Wilson Van Dusen.
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Swedenborg presents a vision of a universe so full of Divinity that there is no room for sectarianism. He reaches out to the secular mind with a vision of order and beauty pregnant with meaning and direction and appeals to human experience and reflection (rather than scriptural interpretation) in making the case for the presence of God's love and ...
Both age-old and pressing is the question of how the existence of God can be reconciled with the existence of radical evil. Swedenborg's masterpiece, "Divine Providence", takes on that question and explains how God's greatest gift to humanity, our freedom, mandates that God permit evil. However, with every evil act comes the possibility of its ...
In this "new" edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's invaluable treatise on the Divine Providence, an attempt has been made to render the translation a little more smooth, without making it less faithful to the original, or even less literal; but there are still some peculiarities of style, which it has been thought advisable to retain, rather than to ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and not life, must needs seem like something unheard of, or like a paradox, because it is opposed to the appearance, and thus to sensual thought. The cause of the ...
Heaven And Its Wonders And Hell From Things Heard And Seen was first published in English in 1892. It caontains accounts and stories from Heaven, about The World Of Spirits and Man's State After Death, and Hell. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...
Using selections from the writings of Enamuel Swedenborg, recently translated for the modern reader, George Dole presents Swedenborg's ideas in a logical, understandable manner. Dole has constructed the work particularly for the reader unfamiliar with these writings and provides an explanatory essay to introduce each chapter. The book can be ...
In 1996, the Swedenborg Foundation published "Conversations with Angels", revealing the wisdom imparted to Swedenborg by heavenly spirits. This companion piece presents Swedenborg's encounters with evil spirits, narratives arranged thematically by Donald Rose and newly translated by Lisa Hyatt Cooper from several of Swedenborg's works. Rose ...
This fresh translation brings together the most remarkable selections from Swedenborg's works about the wisdom imparted to him by angels. They reveal their natures, their spiritual loves, their heavenly education, and the true source of wisdom and beauty. These spirits share their knowledge for the good of those on earth, who are themselves ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BY Emanuel Swedenborg Part The Third TREATING OF THE Married Life Of The First-born Pair, AND, IN CONNECTION WITH IT, Of The Sun Of Life, The Spiritual And Natural ...
Emanuel Swedenborg wrote about a way to understand the Divine and the self, a path that leads to fulfilment and meaning both here and in the afterlife - the way of wisdom. This collection of 100 quotations, adapted for present-day readers, is arranged for meditation, self-reflection, and personal growth. The quotations challenge the reader to grow ...
The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars ...
Large Format for easy reading. By the Swedish scientist, philosopher, chemist, anatomist and mystic. An account of some of his mystical experiences, when he believed that he had conversed with the spirits of other worlds' inhabitants and had travelled - in a spiritual rather than a bodily sense - to many distant planets. One of his principal ...
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