Swedenborg's Secret: The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the Life of the Angels, and Service to God : a BiographySwedenborg's Secret is the first major study of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) to be published in English for over fifty years, being a translation of the critically acclaimed Swedish biography Swedenborg's Hemlighet (1999). Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout with ten color plates and forty-four black-and-white pictures, Swedenborg's Secret is an authoritative and full-length biography that is immensely readable. Using a wealth of historical material, Lars Bergquist paints a vivid portrait of an ambitious and practical man who was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, a polymath who was a poet, inventor, mathematician, mineralogist, anatomist, and cosmologist. Bergquist also reveals Swedenborg to be a "man of two worlds," someone who not only played an active part in the political life of his nation but who was also a spiritual visionary, setting out a stunning vision of human destiny in works such as Heaven and Hell and New Jerusalem. Swedenborg's Secret reclaims Swedenborg from the margins of contemporary thought and places him where he belongs: as a founding figure of modern spirituality and Western philosophy. The book also contains a chronology of Swedenborg's life and contemporary events, an appendix listing the contents of Swedenborg's personal library and other books he was known to have owned or read, a comprehensive bibliography, and a full index. |
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Contents
1The church the bishop and the son | 1 |
2Growth and studies | 15 |
England Holland France | 33 |
4Poetry and politics | 49 |
journal editor and inventor | 57 |
Polhem and Emanuel Swedenborg | 75 |
Polhem and his daughters ennoblement the search for a career | 81 |
radical pietism and the beginning of a natural philosophy | 91 |
22Arcana Caelestia the Fall and the Ages of Man | 277 |
23Breathing concentration and vision | 291 |
24The hermeneutic circle | 303 |
portrait with a doubleexposure | 315 |
26 About the life of the angels and the darkness of the evil | 329 |
Politics the art of the possible | 345 |
28 Money from Paris and a good king? | 353 |
Piety Wisdom and Providence | 367 |
9Why should we care about Polands affairs? | 103 |
Principia | 113 |
his death and funeral | 125 |
12Philosophical notes | 133 |
13The kingdom of the soul | 147 |
crisis and true love | 157 |
15The Worship and Love of God | 179 |
the old man and the new | 193 |
the great journal | 207 |
18The Book of Revelation and the keys to heaven | 223 |
19Digression on a garden | 237 |
20Departure and the Great Work | 245 |
21The clairvoyant Assessor | 267 |
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