Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg {{Audio|sv-Emanuel_Swedenborg.ogg|listen}} (born Swedberg) (January 29, 1688–March 29, 1772), Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic, was born in Stockholm, the third son of the renowned but controversial bishop, Jesper Swedberg. Emanuel had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. Then at age fifty-six he claimed that he entered into a new spiritual phase of his life, experiencing first dreams, and later visions of a spiritual world where he talked with angels and spirits, many of them from the Bible, such as Moses and Jesus. Amongst other things, he said these spirits guided his interpretation of the Scriptures.

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• The Swedenborgian Church is the original Swedenborgian denominational body in North America.
• The New Church, or Church of the New Jerusalem, is another denomination based on Swedenborg's teachings.
• The Heavenly Doctrines, a searchable library of Swedenborg's "revelatory phase" theological writings.
• Extract from The Holographic Universe, a book with includes a comparison of Swedenborg's observations with later theories by David Bohm and Karl Pribram.
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• The Swedenborg Society UK publisher of Swedenborg's works. Bookshop in Bloomsbury Square, London.