Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theologicalWhite, William
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Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theological
White, William
Mystics -- Sweden -- Biography; Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
It remains only to add, that the treatise on Heaven and Hell has been
translated into English, French, and German. The English editions have
been many, and in some cases large. The latest may be accepted as a sign
of the times, being in the form of an eighteen-penny volume, a second
edition of which has been called for. We lay no claim to the gift of
prophecy, but we feel certain that the time is coming when Swedenborg’s
“Heaven and Hell” will be the most popular and extensively read of
religious books.
CHAPTER XIV.
_The White Horse—The Earths in the Universe—The New Jerusalem
and its Heavenly Doctrine._
1. The treatise on the White Horse mentioned in the Apocalypse, forms a
tract of about twenty pages. It is an exposition of the spiritual sense
of Revelation xix. 11-16. It is shown that by the heavens being opened,
the White Horse, and its rider, are represented the Lord and his Word,
and the quality of those to whom the internal truth of the Word is
revealed. The particulars of the text are all gone into and expounded,
and copious references made to the Arcana Cœlestia for fuller details.
It is to be noted that voluminous as are Swedenborg’s theological works,
that they form one harmonious whole bound together in the unity of truth,
and mutually confirming each other. Literature, we believe, contains no
example of so great a mass of writing permeated with such a consistent
spirit, and so little affected by the author’s humors and fluctuations of
mood. So far does this uniform spirit extend, that, had it been possible,
we might imagine his many volumes had been struck out of thought in one
short day, instead of being written continuously through a course of
nearly thirty years.
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