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...Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades since Leonardo da Vinci...
Then, one April night in 1744, when he was 56 years old, he had a vision of Christ, and a new life began for Emanuel Swedenborg...
...believed, from the spirit world), he evolved a new Christian theology centered in a merging of the orthodox Trinity into Lord Jesus Christ and the belief that the Christ's Second Coming had already occurred-in the form of the Word, revealed to Emanuel Swedenborg. The afterlife and spirit world were as real to the new Swedenborg as his native Stockholm. He made Sweden's Queen Louisa Ulrica blanch with a secret message from her deceased brother, and he titillated his contemporaries with reports of new marriages made in heaven between noted persons long dead...
Clairvoyance was another talent of Swedenborg's. It has led Duke University's famed Extrasensory Perceptionist Joseph B. Rhine to call him "the pioneer in the work I am doing." At about 6 o'clock one night in 1759, Swedenborg, who was visiting a friend in- Goteborg, suddenly turned pale. A great fire had broken out, he announced, in Stockholm, 325 miles away, and as it spread, he gave out bulletins like a mental radio station...
...take comfort, however, from Swedenborg's assertion that "such as are not idolaters acknowledge the Lord (Christ) to be the only God" and that charity or good toward the neighbor is the Way of Life. Those who are religious in this fashion go to heaven, baptized or (scandalous heresy) unbaptized and see God face to face. They are not evil angels nor are they immortal but humans, differing only slightly from...