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The Arcana Cœlestia, quae in Scriptura Sacra seu Verbo Domini sunt, detecta, usually abbreviated as Arcana Cœlestia (Heavenly Mysteries or Secrets of Heaven) or under its Latin variant, Arcana Cælestia, [1] is an 8-volume theological work published by Emanuel Swedenborg in the 1750s. [2] [3] Arcana Cœlestia, first edition (1749), title page
The Second Book of Enoch (abbreviated as 2 Enoch and also known as Slavonic Enoch, Slavic Enoch, or the Secrets of Enoch) is a pseudepigraphic text in the apocalyptic genre. It describes the ascent of the patriarch Enoch , ancestor of Noah , through ten heavens of an Earth-centered cosmos .
Heaven and Earth was a bestseller in Australia when published in May 2009, and is in its seventh printing, according to the publisher. [6] The book has also been published in the United States and the United Kingdom. [7]
Swedenborg's book Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen is a major contributor to the plot of the movie Things Heard & Seen, which premiered on Netflix in 2021. In Olga Tokarczuk's 2018 novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead , the main character, Janina Duszejko, makes a reference to Swedenborg's work in astrology.
The understanding that the heavens can influence things on Earth lent heavenly, magical properties to the number seven itself, as in stories of seven demons, seven churches, seven spirits, or seven thrones. The number seven appears frequently in Babylonian magical rituals. [13]
This word often occurs in the phrase raz nihyeh, which can be translated as "the secret of the way things are". [2] The assumption behind The Book of Mysteries is that revelation, not reason, is the key to wisdom. The book is authored by an unnamed teacher who claims to be the recipient of such a revelation and is passing it along to his students.
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Heaven and Hell is the common English title of a book written by Emanuel Swedenborg in Latin, published in 1758. The full title is Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen , or, in Latin: De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de inferno, ex Auditis et Visis.