Download or read book The Natural philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg written by David Duner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science. During this period, Swedenborg thought of the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. This volume analyzes this mechanistic worldview from the cognitive perspective, by means of a study of the metaphors in Swedenborg’s texts. The author argues that these conceptual metaphors are vital skills of the creative mind and scientific thinking, used to create visual analogies and abstract ideas. This means that Swedenborg’s mechanistic and geometrical worldview, allowed him to perceive the world as mechanical and geometrical. Swedenborg thought ”with” books and pens. The reading gave him associations and clues, forced him to interpret, and gave him material for his intellectual development.

Download or read book A Language of Things written by Devin P. Zuber and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long overlooked, the natural philosophy and theosophy of the Scandinavian scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) made a surprising impact in America. Thomas Jefferson, while president, was so impressed with the message of a Baltimore Swedenborgian minister that he invited him to address both houses of Congress. But Swedenborgian thought also made its contribution to nineteenth-century American literature, particularly within the aesthetics of American Transcendentalism. Although various scholars have addressed how American Romanticism was affected by different currents of Continental thought and religious ideology, surprisingly no book has yet described the specific ways that American Romantics made persistent recourse to Swedenborg for their respective projects to re-enchant nature. In A Language of Things, Devin Zuber offers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental role that religious experience could play in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Sarah Orne Jewett, among others, variously responded to Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological. A Language of Things situates this dynamic within some of the recent "new materialisms" of environmental thought, showing how these earlier authors anticipate present concerns with the other-than-human in the Anthropocene.

Download or read book Platonism written by Valery Rees and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’.

Download or read book A Compendium of the Theological and Spiritual Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg Being a Systematic and Orderly Epitome of All His Religious Works written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emanuel Swedenborg written by Martin Lamm and published by Chrysalis Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, Martin Lamm's work on the evolution of the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) has stood as one of the standard works on the Swedish theologian since its original publication in 1915. Lamm shows that Swedenborg's scientific worldview was not changed by his later religious revelations -- that the two complemented and corroborated each other.

Download or read book Divine Love and Wisdom written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg uses reason and empirical facts to prove the existence of God and God's divine love. He further posits that we are all an essential part of God's Divine plan, and that without us God's plan could not come to fruition.

Download or read book The Hidden Levels of the Mind written by Douglas Taylor and published by Swedenborg Foundation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of the soul. Scattered throughout his theological works is a description of a complex system of interaction between our "natural" minds (our everyday thoughts and feelings) and our spiritual minds, which are in touch with the divine. This book takes those scattered descriptions and weaves them into a coherent system that is invaluable for understanding Swedenborg's thought -- and our own.

Download or read book The Presence of Other Worlds written by Wilson Van Dusen and published by Chrysalis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the monumental journey of eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg into the depths of his own mind and to spiritual worlds beyond.

Download or read book A Treatise Concerning Heaven and Hell written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heaven and Hell written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Natural Depth in Man written by Wilson Van Dusen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist draws from personal experience, work with psychiatric patients, and Eastern and Western philosophy to explore the inner world.

Download or read book Emanuel Swedenborg as a philosopher and man of science written by Rudolph Leonhard Tafel and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spiritual Life and the Word of God written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emanuel Swedenborg as a philosopher metaphysician and theologian Delivered in the Guildhall Bath Dec 8th 1862 Reprinted from Pitman s popular lecturer and reader Second edition written by George Bain PORTEOUS and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Jerusalem written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by New Century Edition. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Swedenborg's brief summary of his teachings about the New Jerusalem, the new spiritual age that he said began in the eighteenth century, with extensive references to his multi-volume Secrets of Heaven for further reading"--

Download or read book The Economy of the Animal Kingdom Considered Anatomically Physically and Philosophically written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Swedenborg and His Influence written by Erland J. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: