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Published in 1758, best-known of Swedenborg's works; describes the nature of life after death and of the internal state, or "ruling love," of the individual that determines his or her situation in the afterlife..
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Writing in his Religious History of the American People Sydney E. Ahlstrom comments on the impact that Emanuel Swedenborg had on nineteenth-century America: "His influence was everywhere: in Transcendentalism and at Brook Farm, in spiritualism and the free love movement, in the craze for communitarian experiments, in faith healing, mesmerism, and a half-dozen medical cults; among great intellectuals, crude charlatans, and innumerable frontier quacks."

Swedenborg was the son of a well-known Swedish theologian and had an outstanding career as a scientist and as assessor of his country's Board of Mines. His expertise encompasses the disciplines of geology, anatomy, astronomy, and physics. At age fifty-seven he underwent a religious experience that initiated him in his role of prophet and revealer of a system of thought that was destined to become one of the most important elements in the modern Christian esoteric tradition.

This volume contains new translations by George F. Dole of "The Universal Human" from Arcana Coelestia (1747-1753) and the complete text of Soul-Body Interaction (1769)..
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The first English translation contains two essays by French Islamic scholar Henry Corbin: “Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal” and “Comparative Spiritual Hermeneutics.”

Corbin called Swedenborg “the prophet of the inter­nal sense of the Bible” and compared his biblical symbolism to the Quranic interpretations of the great Islamic mystics. This new edition now includes an index..
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The oldest and longest series of dreams and their analysis was recorded during a formative period in Swedenborg's life. "Journal of Dreams," with its accompanying interpretation by psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, provides an intimate view of spiritual discovery..
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Helen Keller, Time Magazine’s woman of the century, reveals her mystical side in this best-selling spiritual autobiography Writing that her first reading of Emanuel Swedenborg at age fourteen gave her truths that were “to my faculties what light, color and music are to the eye and ear,” she explains how Swedenborg’s works sustained her throughout her life.

This new edition includes a foreword by Dorothy Herrmann, author of the acclaimed Helen Keller: A Life, and a new chapter, “Epilogue: My Luminous Universe.”.
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Wouter Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, provides a scholarly, historical and contextual companion piece to the New Century Edition work, Secrets of Heaven..
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