[Swedenborg, Emanuel] White, William [Swedberg, Jesper]

Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings. In Two Volumes. Volume I (of II).

London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1867. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XXIV, 604 pages. [The Frontispiece shows Jesper Svedberg, Bishop of Skara]. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some discolouring of pages and foxing on endpapers. Name inscribed on pastedown in ink pen, the name Dr. W.F. Arnold stamped on pastedowns and endpapers.

Includes for example the following essays: Charles XII and Swedenborg / The Infinite and Final Cause of Creation, and the Mechanism of the Intercourse Between The Soul and The Body / The worship and Love of God / The Arcana Celestia / The Planets and Their People etc.

Emanuel Swedenborg, (8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter Weekend, on 6 April 1744. It culminated in a “spiritual awakening” in which he received a revelation that he was appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity. According to The Heavenly Doctrine, the Lord had opened Swedenborg’s spiritual eyes so that from then on, he could freely visit heaven and hell to converse with angels, demons and other spirits and the Last Judgment had already occurred the year before, in 1757.

For the last 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works—and several more that were unpublished. He termed himself a “Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ” in True Christian Religion, which he published himself. Some followers of The Heavenly Doctrine believe that of his theological works, only those that were published by Swedenborg himself are fully divinely inspired. Others have regarded all Swedenborg’s theological works as equally inspired, saying for example that the fact that some works were “not written out in a final edited form for publication does not make a single statement less trustworthy than the statements in any of the other works”. The New Church, a new religious movement comprising several historically-related Christian denominations, reveres Swedenborg’s writings as revelation. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 18th Century · Mysticism · Mystics · Original Decorative Art – Portrait · Portrait · Religion · Religion – Rare · Secret Knowledge – Rare · Spiritual Life · Spirituality
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60232AB

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