God, Providence, Creation: From the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg

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The Swedenborg Society, 1931 - Bible - 214 pages

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Contents

CHAPTER
1
How heaven is opened to man
7
Love and deed
13
The Divine and the Human in the Lord 2123
21
The True Doctrine of the Trinity
27
The Trine in God
33
Man a recipient of life 4549
45
Degrees of life
51
The laws of the Divine Providence 65155
155
Animals in heaven and hell
165
The plant soul
171
The tendency to the human form
177
Forces tend to their ultimate
183
Spiritual and natural plants
185
CHAPTER V
191
Naturalism
197

All things from life itself which is God
53
God Omnipotent 5961
59
Salvation the end of Divine Providence
65
The Lord the life of all
203
All things created for the sake of use
209
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About the author (1931)

The son of a Swedish Lutheran pastor, professor, and court chaplain, Emanuel Swedenborg first became a scientist and mining engineer. Of brilliant intellect and wide-ranging interests, he explored many areas of nature, doing pioneering work in several fields. In 1743 he began to experience a series of visions of the spiritual world. Over subsequent years he maintained that he held conversations with angels, the departed, and even God, and that he had visited heaven and hell. Swedenborg penned a lengthy series of writings inspired by these encounters, based on the concept of a spiritual cosmos as model for the physical, an educative view of the afterlife, and the allegorical interpretation of Scripture. In 1774 the small Church of the New Jerusalem was founded explicitly on the basis of his revelations. Swedenborg's influence has been much wider than its membership. His teachings entered American culture generally through the popularity of several of his books and his impact on Spiritualism and the New England Transcendentalists.

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