Word: swedenborg
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...Swedenborg and the Vialonary Tradition--Stephen Larsen; Swedenborg Library, 79 Newbury St., Boston...
...Reconstruction of William James's Lowell Lectures of 1897 on Exceptional Mental States, Lecture II: Automatism, Eugene Taylor, resident graduate at the Divinity School, Swedenborg Chapel, Quincy and Kirkland...
...Sotheby's in London, but this was a first: a skull described as "unusually long and narrow ... jawbone lacking." It fetched ? 1,650 ($3,200) last week from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, which decided in 1960 that the skull is almost certainly that of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th century Swedish scientist and mys tic. His writings and visions form the heart of the 50,000-member Swedenborgian religion...
...skull was stolen from Swedenborg's London grave, 44 years after his 1772 burial, by a retired sea captain infatuated with phrenology. It was bought a century later at an antique shop in Swansea, Wales, by the family whose heirs sold it off last week. Swedenborgians protested the sale of stolen property, but are relieved that the skull is returning to Sweden, where the rest of the founder's body now lies...
...epoch will reminisce about the wood-panelled studies where idle afternoons were spent browsing through novels. In my own impoverished library, which comprises less than a thousand books, I have isolated the older works from those ephemera which are the luggage of all students. There is a volume of Swedenborg, issued in 1868, still damp, as if it had been left on some porch during a summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed...