Emanuel Swedenborg: Essential Readings

by Emanuel Swedenborg, Michael Stanley (Editor)

Overview

Best known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg's oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the Genesis story, influenced Blake, Balzac, Strindberg, and Yeats, and authored a number of anonymous works that put the Swedish clergy of his day on high alert. This is the fourth title in the Western Esoteric Masters Series from North Atlantic Books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556434679
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	04/21/2003
Series:	Western Esoteric Masters , #4
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.47(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Editor Michael Stanley was born in England in 1936. His early career in physics brought him to Columbia University, New York, and then he was called to the ministry. He was Principal of New Church College (Swedenborgian), where he taught philosophy, psychology, and comparative religion. He has lectured widely in the UK, as well as in Australia and the United States.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	11
	Preface	13
	Introduction	15
1	Structure of Swedenborg's Spiritual Thought	26
2	Divine Nature	32
3	Man's Nature	44
4	The Divine in Man	58
5	Nature of Divine Manifestation	63
6	Divine Providence	78
7	Rebirth (Regeneration)	85
8	Angelic Nature	104
9	Spiritual World	116
10	Sexuality and the Conjugial Relationship	132
11	Spiritual Ages of Man	144
12	Last Judgement	157
13	New Age (New Church)	160
Appendix	Discrete Degrees in Man	165
	Abbreviations	168
	Bibliography	169
	Chronology of Swedenborg's Work	170
	Index	173