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0.03 Swedenborg Review

2021, 0.03 Swedenborg Review

Abstract

The third issue of the Swedenborg Review, a printed broadsheet containing essays, reviews, articles and photos.

Key takeaways

  • A preview extract taken from the beginning of a forthcoming short life of Swedenborg by the acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd.
  • For Swedenborg the infinite was an aspect of the deity, 'For without the utmost devotion to the Supreme Being, no one can be a complete and truly learned philosopher'.
  • This strictly regimented bureaucratic structure to the afterlife has a precursor in Swedenborg, who said that 'heaven has governments and therefore areas of responsibility and offices'.
  • Peter, speculating about the next world, says, 'I think it starts where this one leaves off', in much the same way that Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, §450, p. 340.
  • During work on this book, we also spoke of developing another project, namely an English translation of the third of his Swedenborg studies entitled Swedenborgs korrespondenslära (Swedenborg's Correspondences).