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...your "Theology of Saucers" [Aug. 18] article: It is well for Father Francis Connell to know that whether flying saucers are real or ionized air bubbles, people on other planets do exist. According to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, theologian and mystic, God created myriads of worlds and they are all peopled. Father Connell has labored mightily, like a 20th century Aquinas, to classify the status of beings from other planets, but actually, as to religion, they fall into no specifically Catholic categories...
...scared into "a perfectly insane and abject terror" by a shape squatting invisibly before him. For two years the elder James searched for relief from his fearful visitation, tried everything from water cures to cheerful company, eventually found peace only in the esoteric mysticism of Swedish Philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg...
...full of haunting music, names and symbols, which brought him popular fame. Granting the fact that many people found such poetry haunting, it remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose. He was hot on the track of the thing that would enable a poet to know just what he is doing, when...
...Swedenborg and His Philosophy of Love" will be the subject of a free, public lecture at Harvard tomorrow by the Reverend Lewis F. Hite. Professor of Philosophy, New Church Theological School, at Emerson Hall...
...lecture is given in connection with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Swedenborg, now being internationally celebrated...