Introducing Swedenborg
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Mystics |
ISBN | : 9780854482207 |
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Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Mystics |
ISBN | : 9780854482207 |
Author | : GARY. LACHMAN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780854482160 |
Emanuel Swedenborg's system of correspondences is one of the most influential theories in the history of ideas. Instrumental in the rise of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism, and cited as key to the work of Goethe, R.W. Emerson, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, to name but a few, it offers to poets, artists, writers and composers a blueprint for navigating the gap between the material world and non-material values. In this brief introduction, Gary Lachman gives an accessible overview of the many fascinating ways in which Swedenborg's idea has impacted upon the past 250 years.
Author | : John Faulkner Potts |
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Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : R. W. Emerson |
Publisher | : The Swedenborg Society |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mysticism |
ISBN | : 9780854481392 |
"One of a collection of seven lectures first published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1850, entitled Representative men." (Inside back cover.)
Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | : Swedenborg Foundation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780854481569 |
"One of a collection of seven lectures first published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1850, entitled Representative men." (Inside back cover.).
Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1758 |
Genre | : Future life |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
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Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : The Swedenborg Society |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780854481385 |
The essays in this volume testify to the far-reaching effects of Emanuel Swedenborg's works in Western culture. From his early days as an ambitious young scientist in the ferment of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europe, through his mid-life entrance into an ongoing experience of the spiritual world, to his last decades as a researcher of things spiritual, Swedenborg built a career that left a unique legacy. His vivid descriptions of the nonphysical realm made a powerful impression on minds as diverse as Goethe, Blake, Emerson, Yeats, and Borges. This book serves as a self-contained resource on Swedenborg's life and thought and as a gateway into further exploration of the labyrinthine garden of Swedenborg's works. It includes a biography, rich in fascinating detail; lively overviews of the content and history of Swedenborg's writings on spiritual topics; and essays tracing Swedenborg's impact in various regions of the world.
Author | : Gary Lachman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2012-04-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1101580348 |
A clear and concise overview of the life and work of the immensely influential but little understood eighteenth-century mystic-scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. “Lachman identifies all the roles Swedenborg inhabited (spiritual thinker, psychic, scientist, inventor, statesman, traveler, and possibly even spy) and does an exceptionally good job of suggesting why this little-known polymath deserves more substantial critical attention.” – The Independent on Sunday (UK) It is difficult to imagine modern Western alternative spirituality without the influence of Swedish scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Every movement in alternative spirituality – from mental-healing and Spiritualism to New Age mysticism and the twelve-step recovery movement – owes an immeasurable debt to the ideas he exploded upon the Western world. Yet Swedenborg’s work can be challenging for modern readers. His influence, everywhere at once, is difficult to get a handle on. Now, however, Gary Lachman provides an accessible, lively, and masterful introduction to the life and ideas of this spiritual giant. Lachman takes us to Swedenborg’s roots as brilliant rationalist and scientist who, well into mid-life, began to experience visions of other realms. From this point Swedenborg produced an extraordinary range of writings based on his out-of-body experiences, in which he related encounters with angels, other-planetary beings, and “the world of spirits.” As Lachman explores, Swedenborg’s work opened up a radically liberal and refreshing ideal of religion. The great mystic saw humanity, and all of nature, as phenomena emerging from the “spiritual world,” and man as a vessel for divine influences. This vision inspired Western seekers to see man as a product of spiritual phenomena, and thus a being intimately connected with the cosmos. From this perspective grew bold new ideas about channeling, spiritual healing, mystical experience, mediumship – a litany of concepts that prefigured the revolutions in alternative and therapeutic spirituality.
Author | : Gary Lachman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10 |
Genre | : Heaven, hell and other places (Motion picture) |
ISBN | : 9780854481736 |
"Filmed on location in Stockholm, Uppsala and London this new documentary is a perfect introduction to the man Jorge Luis Borges described as 'the most extraordinary man in recorded history'" (container).