as a tract, by thousands throughout the land. All these things evidence a growing interest in the greatest teacher of modern times. The present work does not enter into competition with anything that has before been written. It pretends to nothing but simplicity, and would be ranked as a hand-book, a guide, a directory. If it should lead any to form an acquaintance with the writings of “the most _unknown_ man in the world,” as Mr. Fernald calls Swedenborg, and I may add, the most abused man in the world, my end will be gained. I believe the day is not far distant when it will be the greatest reproach of these times that the works of Swedenborg lay in our midst, and only a few men cared for them. Happily this number is steadily increasing; and, by and by, we may expect a general acknowledgment of the fact, that Swedenborg was, without exception, the most gifted and extraordinary man that has ever lived. 36 BLOOMSBURY STREET, LONDON. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. Birth and Parentage. Swedenborg’s First Ideas of Religion, and his Scholastic Life. 21 CHAPTER II. Travels, Becomes Author, and is crossed in Love. 26 CHAPTER III. Travels again. Publishes five Scientific Pamphlets, and “Miscellaneous Observations.” Returns Home and enters on the Duties of his Assessorship. Writes his “Opera Philosophica et Mineralia,” and goes abroad to publish it. 35 CHAPTER IV. “Opera Philosophica et Mineralia.” 40 CHAPTER V. Doings and Travels. 47 CHAPTER VI. “The Economy of the Animal Kingdom,” and “The Animal Kingdom.” 51 CHAPTER VII. His Life, as a Man of Science, ends. 57 CHAPTER VIII. His Spiritual Sight opened, and the Conditions of his Seership. 62 CHAPTER IX. Prepares for his New Office. Resigns his Assessorship. His “Adversaria.” His “Spiritual Diary.” The death of Polheim. 73 CHAPTER X. “The Arcana Cœlestia.” 78 CHAPTER XI. Anecdotes. 89 CHAPTER XII. “The Last Judgment.” 95 CHAPTER XIII. “Heaven and Hell.” 102 CHAPTER XIV.