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...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
...with all this done and learned, life still lay flat and unpalatable on Swedenborg's tongue. He sought, like Paracelsus, the infinite and the spiritual ; and neither geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles led him to them. But they must be found. And so to work on a new path. Then, in 1745, "heaven was opened to him" by direct spiritual revelation from...
...contents of the current issue of the Illustrated Magazine, which appeared yesterday, are as follows: "Emerson Hall and its Dedication," by R. W. Smiley '07; "Swedenborg's Influence upon Goethe," by Frank Sewall; "Munchers vs. Punchers," by H. Askowith '07; "A Universal Language--Esperanto," by Dr. H. W. Morse; Editorials; Book Review...
This school follows the teachings and philosophy of the great Swedenborg. The religion is called either New Church or Swedenborgian. They believe in certain principles, which, when received among men, will realize the promise of the New Jerusalem, the perfection of Christianity when errors of the past and all that is unworthy in life shall have been put away. Their belief does not differ from that of the older bodies in some one point, but is a complete system in itself. Its leading doctrines are that God is one, His love, wisdom, and providential energy being named in the Bible...