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...flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, gave land near the family home at Bryn Athyn, Pa. for the beautiful Swedenborgian Cathedral (New Jerusalem Church) which now stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned...
...Swedenborgians. As everyone knows, Emanuel Swedenborg (originally Swedberg; 1688-1772) was one of the most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
...your issue of June 29, Page 19. your statement concerning Emanuel Swedenborg is so fair and illuminating that it moves me to acknowledge the spirit in which it was written...
...very unusual to find anyone not a professed follower of Swedenborg with so clear an appreciation of his place in history...
...essence of Swedenborg's account of his revelation is that things spiritual have their counterpart in things physical. From God emanates a divine sphere, which appears in the spiritual world as a sun, and from this spiritual sun again proceeds the sun of the natural world. In God there are three infinite "degrees" of being, and in man and all things corresponding, three finite and created degrees. They are love, wisdom, use; or end, cause, and effect. The final ends of all things are in the Divine Mind; the causes of all things are in the spiritual world...