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Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg · 1688 – 1772

Spiritisme (littérature)Occident1400 – 1900

Swedish scientist–visionary; Heaven and Hell and related works shaped later Spiritualist reading.

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Life

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) was a Swedish engineer and Christian visionary whose reported experiences of heaven, hell and the world of spirits—especially Heaven and Hell—became a major published source later Spiritualists and New Church readers adapted. ORDL lists him as a literature bridge into Spiritualism’s intellectual prehistory. This page does not teach mediumship or séance method.

The system

  • Visionary cosmology in a Lutheran and scientific career
  • Correspondences between natural and spiritual worlds in print
  • ORDL boundary: books only—no séance instruction

Key works

  • Heaven and Hell (De caelo et eius mirabilibus)
  • Arcana Coelestia
  • The True Christian Religion

Where to start

  • Use a modern Swedenborg Foundation or critical translation
  • Separate Swedenborg’s own prose from later séance culture that claimed him

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