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Portrait of Swedenborg by Carl Frederik von Breda. 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.
Emanuel Swedenborg (/ ˈ s w iː d ən b ɔːr ɡ /, [2] Swedish: [ˈsvêːdɛnˌbɔrj] ⓘ; born Emanuel Swedberg; (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) [3] was a Swedish polymath; scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. [4] He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell ...
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.
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Swedenborg himself claims to have accessed this information by "traveling" the mundo spirituali or the 'spirit world'. [ 1 ] The book is divided in two with the solar planets in the first half—ordered Mercury , Jupiter , Mars , Saturn , Venus and the Moon ; apparently according to their spirituality—and then the extrasolar planets .
Swedenborg's 12-volume Arcana Coelestia provides verse-by-verse details of the inner meaning of Genesis and part of Exodus; the work Apocalypse Revealed [8] does the same for the Book of Revelation. The Arcana Coelestia , for example, explains how the creation and development of the human mind corresponds to the seven days of creation in Genesis.
The most notable exception is Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) who published some 30 mystical 30 works, such as Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen (1758). Swedenborg almost exclusively wrote in Latin, but his work did have a significant influence on others for centuries to come.
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