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A compact, accessible introduction to the life and spiritual thought of Emanuel Swedenborg, the extraordinary Enlightenment scientist and mystic. Emanuel Swedenborg's work is a vast, complex, dazzling world, filled with lands and seas of extraordinary beauty and richness . . . Now George F. Dole has swept away the stuffiness and stiffness of earlier [translations] and given us Swedenborg as he is meant to be: a thrilling visionary, a poetic seer of the first order. In every respect, this is a triumph. Swedenborg 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 God’s wisdom. From God’s infinite love and wisdom to our own individual desires and perceptions, there is an underlying unity on which we can rely. In Divine Providence, the focus is directed toward earth, at a world so troubled that the loving hand of God is often hidden from our sight and brought into question. How can we believe in the goodness and power of God when we constantly see injustice and war? The answers that are offered turn us toward a deeper understanding of our own human nature and process. Only divine love and wisdom can provide us with the accountability that gives meaning to our lives.
A Scientist Explores Spirit
George Dole & Robert Kirven		 Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Divine Love and Wisdom
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Divine Providence
Emanuel Swedenborg
 
Throughout the final 27 years of his life, Swedenborg explored the realms of heaven and hell and spoke with angels about the nature of life after death, discussed with newly arrived spirits their misconceptions bout the afterlife, and debated with devils or spirits from hell. As an Enlightenment scholar, Swedenborg recorded these encounters, attesting to God's will that humanity might know the truth of eternal life. Hell is not literally a place of fire, as much of orthodox religion teaches. As Swedenborg saw it, it was more a fire of the mind. The souls in this state continue to love the material more than the spiritual. 'In the same degree in which angels have wisdom and intelligence, infernal spirits have malice and cunning,' Swedenborg wrote. These devils use their cunning to negatively influence those still living on the earthly realms. Japanese philosopher D.T. Suzuki once called Swedenborg the Buddha of the North. The 18th-century Swedish mystic's visionary writings also deeply influenced Emerson, Blake, Strindberg and Helen Keller. First published over 50 years ago and now available in English for the first time, Benz's superb biography brings to life this scientific and religious genius. Available for the first time in English, Lamm’s classic study (first published in 1915) has stood as the standard humanist interpretation of Swedenborg’s writings and has influenced generations of European scholars. His detailed investigation of the philosophical and religious background of Swedenborg’s thought is an illuminating inquiry into the mystery of how Swedenborg was transformed from a scientist to a seer.
Conversations with Angels
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Debates with Devils
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Visionary Savant
E. Benz, N. Goodrich-Clarke		 Development of Thought
Lamm, Spiers, Hallengren
 
A guidebook for mystics like no other--with both detailed descriptions and practical suggestions. It offers spiritual explorers a map of the mystical landscape which can be used both to explore inner dimensions and to value our everyday human experience. This book invites each of us to confront mysticism both as a spiritual fact and as proof that we and the universe share a spiritual design, which orders our lives as surely as it orders the cosmos itself. Out of the simple structure of space the author generates 1, 2, and 3 spaces and 4 dimensional space-time. He then generates 5, 6, and 7 spaces and shows them to be functional levels of mind — a startlingly original work. Psychologist Wilson van Dusen examines Swedenborg’s findings through the lenses of philosophy, science, mysticism, and psychology. Extraordinary mystical experiences are explained on the level of everyday understanding and experience, leading to a more ethical way of living. A lifelong explorer of the spiritual realm speaks insightfully of the transcendent dimension. Wilson Van Dusen enumerates the common characteristics of the mature mystic and presents a brief history of mysticism. He explains how religion fits within the context of culture and then how mysticism fits or does not within the context of religion. A useful chapter introduces a simple, effective meditative practice.
Design of Existence
Wilson Van Dusen		 Just Beyond Physical
Wilson Van Dusen		 Presence of Other Worlds
Van Dusen & Moody		 Mystical Mind
Wilson Van Dusen

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Emanuel Swedenborg's work is a vast, complex, dazzling world, filled with lands and seas of extraordinary beauty and richness . . . Now George F. Dole has swept away the stuffiness and stiffness of earlier [translations] and given us Swedenborg as he is meant to be: a thrilling visionary, a poetic seer of the first order. In every respect, this is a triumph. Swedenborg 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 God’s wisdom. From God’s infinite love and wisdom to our own individual desires and perceptions, there is an underlying unity on which we can rely. In Divine Providence, the focus is directed toward earth, at a world so troubled that the loving hand of God is often hidden from our sight and brought into question. How can we believe in the goodness and power of God when we constantly see injustice and war? The answers that are offered turn us toward a deeper understanding of our own human nature and process. Only divine love and wisdom can provide us with the accountability that gives meaning to our lives. True Christianity presents a satisfying and sensible alternative to mainstream Christianity. The last book published by Emanuel Swedenborg, it serves as both the keystone in the architecture of his theology and the summary of his far-reaching psychological insights. This volume, the first of two, provides unique and satisfying answers to humankind's perennial questions about the nature of God and about Jesus.
Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Divine Love and Wisdom    
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Divine Providence
Emanuel Swedenborg		 Four Doctrines
Emanuel Swedenborg
 
Doctrine of Life
Emanual Swedenborg		 Earths in Starry Heaven
Emanual Swedenborg		 The Gist of Swedenborg
Smyth and Wunsch, Editors		 Sorting Things Out
George F. Dole


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