Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the heading of Religion, p. 21, appeared a more accurate account of Swedenborg and the New Church than usually appears in the public press. . . . I must call your attention, in the interest of accurate reporting, to one essential error. You stated that in 1890 "some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn...
...Patent Office refused an application for a stove patent because Emanuel Swedenborg had invented an identical stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before...
...Lutheran bishop, Emanuel Swedenborg spent his time between the ages of four and ten in "thought upon God, salvation and the spiritual experience of men." Some of his precocious revelations made his father & mother conclude that angels were speaking through him, decide to put a stop to "these celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits...
Christ, he firmly believed, had chosen Emanuel Swedenborg as the vehicle of His second coming. But for all his complex system of theology, he did not attempt to preach or found a sect. His New Church was to embrace all Christendom, revitalized by his revelations. It remained for one Robert Hindmarsh and other devotees to establish the Church of the New Jerusalem...
...shelters 7,000 Swedenborgians with 100 churches. Because outsiders were inclined to confuse it with Judaism, members now refer to their organization simply as the New Church. The New Church patterns its services on the Episcopalian, its administrative set-up on the Congregational. In 1890 some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn...