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Dwarfed by the towering height of William James Hall and the concrete mass of the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, the Swedenborg Chapel stands on a small patch of grass on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy Streets...
...hope the governing board would have seats for members of the Massachusetts Association of Swedenborg Churches, the church’s pastor, as well as Harvard,” Wiberg said...
...newly founded instrument, the Royal Academy, was built into him. Like many other such craftsmen at the time, he was possibly a Mason. Certainly he felt like an outsider, and was fascinated by the ideas of the 16th century alchemist Paracelsus, the mystic Jakob Bohme and his contemporary, Emanuel Swedenborg. He was not, of course, the only Englishman to be caught up with these visionaries and cranks, but there was no major artist on whom their ideas had more influence. Blake's imagery of transcendence and spiritual transformation through direct "knowing" owed nearly as much to them...
...year old Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland streets has been for sale for years, but it the last month a $3 million offer from a Somerville developer has thrown its future into doubt...
...chapel is owned by the Swedenborg School of Religion, a Newton-based seminary teaching the doctrines of a Christian sect. The congregation using the chapel is called the Church of the New Jerusalem...