Emanuel Swedenborg
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| Emanuel Swedenborg | |
|---|---|
 c. 1766, painting attr. to Per Krafft the Elder | |
| Born | Emanuel Swedberg 29 January 1688 (O.S.) Stockholm, Swedish Empire |
| Died | 29 March 1772 (84) London, England |
| Burial | Swedish Church in Princes Square, Shadwell, London; reburied in Uppsala Cathedral, Uppsala, Sweden 140 years later |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University, 1709 |
Emanuel Swedenborg (January 29, 1688 - March 29, 1772) was a Swedish philosopher, scientist, and Christian esotericist, author of the eight-volume Arcana Cœlestia ("Heavenly Mysteries", 1749-1756), and De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de Inferno, ex Auditis et Visis ("Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen", 1758), his account of the afterlife, which form the basis for a reform movement within Protestant Christianity called Swedenborgianism.
Selected Works
Philosophic-Scientific
- (in Swedish) Daedalus Hyperboreus, eller Några Nya Mathematiska och Physicaliska Försök, 1716-1718 — (English: "The Northern Inventor, or Some New Experiments in Mathematics and Physics")
- (in Latin) Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium: sive novorum tentaminum chymiam et physicam experimenta geometrice explicandi, 1721 — (English: "Principles of Chemistry")
- (in Latin) Miscellanea de Rebus Naturalibus, 1722 — (English: "Miscellaneous Observations")
- (in Latin) Opera Philosophica et Mineralia: Principia rerum naturlium sive novorum tentaminum phaenomena mundi elementaris philosophice explicandi, I, 1734
- (in Latin) Opera Philosophica et Mineralia: Regnum subterraneum sive minerale de ferro, II, 1734
- (in Latin) Opera Philosophica et Mineralia: Regnum subterraneum sive minerale de cupro et orichalco, III, 1734
- (in Latin) Regnum animale, 3 volumes, 1744-1745 — (English: "The Animal Kingdom")
Religious
- (in Latin) Prodromus Philosophiz Ratiocinantis de Infinito, et Causa Finali Creationis; deque Mechanismo Operationis Animae et Corporis., 1734 — (English: "The Infinite and Final Cause of Creation")
- (in Latin) De Cultu et Amore Dei, 2 volumes, 1745 — (English: "The Worship and Love of God")
- (in Latin) Arcana Cœlestia, quae in Scriptura Sacra seu Verbo Domini sunt, detecta, 8 volumes, 1749-1756 — (English: "Heavenly Mysteries")
- (in Latin) De Caelo et Ejus Mirabilibus et de Inferno Ex Auditis et Visis, 1758 — (English: "Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen")
- (in Latin) De Ultimo Judicio, 1758 — (English: "The Last Judgment")
- (in Latin) De Equo Albo de quo in Apocalypsi Cap. XIX., 1758 — (English: "On the White Horse Mentioned in the Apocalypse Chapt. 19")
- (in Latin) De Telluribus in Mundo Nostro Solari, quæ vocantur planetæ: et de telluribus in coelo astrifero: deque illarum incolis; tum de spiritibus & angelis ibi; ex auditis & visis., 1758 — (English: "Earths in the Universe")
- (in Latin) De Nova Hierosolyma et Ejus Doctrina Coelesti, 1758 — (English: "The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine")
- (in Latin) Doctrina Novæ Hierosolymæ de Domino, 1763 — (English: "Doctrine of the Lord")
- (in Latin) Doctrina Novæ Hierosolymæ de Scriptura Sacra., 1763 — (English: "Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture")
- (in Latin) Doctrina Vitæ pro Nova Hierosolyma ex præceptis Decalogi., 1763 — (English: "Doctrine of Life")
- (in Latin) Doctrina Novæ Hierosolymæ de Fide., 1763 — (English: "Doctrine of Faith")
- (in Latin) Continuatio De Ultimo Judicio: et de mundo spirituali., 1763 — (English: "Continuation of The Last Judgement")
- (in Latin) Sapientia Angelica de Divino Amore et de Divina Sapientia. Sapientia Angelica de Divina Providentia., 1763 — (English: "Divine Love and Wisdom")
- (in Latin) Sapientia Angelica de Divina Providentia., 1764 — (English: "Divine Providence")
- (in Latin) Apocalypsis Revelata, in quae detegunter Arcana quae ibi preedicta sunt., 1766 — (English: "Apocalypse Revealed")
- (in Latin) Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore Conjugiali; post quas sequumtur voluptates insaniae de amore scortatorio., 1768 — (English: "Conjugial Love, or Marriage Love")
- (in Latin) Summaria Expositio Doctrinæ Novæ Ecclesiæ, quæ per Novam Hierosolymam in Apocalypsi intelligitur., 1769 — (English: "Brief Exposition")
- (in Latin) De Commercio Animæ & Corporis., 1769 — (English: "Interaction of the Soul and the Body")
- (in Latin) Vera Christiana Religio, continens Universam Theologiam Novae Ecclesiae, 1771 — (English: "True Christian Religion")
- (in Latin) Apocalypsis Explicata secundum Sensum Spiritualem; ubi revelantur Arcana quae ibi praedicta, et hactenus ignota fuerunt, London, 1785-1789 — (English: "The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense"]
Reading
- Tafel, J. F. I.; Smithson, J. H. (trans.) (1847), Bush, George, ed., Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg: Collected by Dr. J. F. I. Tafel, Translated and Revised by Rev. I. H. Smithson: A New Edition, with Additions, by George Bush, New York: J. Allen, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002007687321
- White, William M. (1874), Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together With a Brief Synopsis of His Writings, Both Philosophical and Theological, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.ajk2952.0001.001