Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic
EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG
SCIENTIST AND MYSTIC
BY
SIGNE TOKSVIG
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1948
Copyright, 1948, by Signe Toksvig
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.
To
SOPHY CARR STANTON
IN EVER-LIVING FRIENDSHIP
“There are marvelous things occurring in the human mind, so marvelous indeed that they cannot be expressed. In number they are indefinitely more than all the things contained in the human body, in the threefold kingdom of nature, and in the universal world, visible and invisible. The sciences have drawn out only a few of them, and these are mere rivulets emanating from an ocean."
Swedenborg
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It is a pleasure to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the grant of a fellowship which made this study possible.
Especial thanks are due to the Library of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, to the Library of Yale University, and to the Library of the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa., for the facilities offered by them, and to Cyriel Odhner Sigstedt, also of Bryn Athyn, for her generosity in lending the writer new material which she herself had found in Sweden.
The editor of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Mrs. Laura Abbott Dale, has been unfailingly helpful. The late Whately Carington, of Sennen Cove, Cornwall, England, was good enough to read and discuss the chapters largely based on his theories, while Professor Gardner Murphy, The City College of New York, must accept thanks for his great kindness in reading the whole book in manuscript.
Contents
| Acknowledgments | v | |
| List of Illustrations | ix | |
| I. | Why Swedenborg | 1 |
| II. | Stockholm Shocked | 7 |
| III. | Parent Extraordinary | 14 |
| IV. | Undergraduate at Upsala | 30 |
| V. | Discovery of England | 43 |
| VI. | Engineer and Mining Expert | 59 |
| VII. | Physicist and Physiologist | 71 |
| VIII. | Dissecting Rooms Abroad | 80 |
| IX. | Anatomy of the Mind and Body | 96 |
| X. | Anatomy of Soul | 112 |
| XI. | Strange Dreams and "Temptations" | 124 |
| XII. | The Great Vision | 136 |
| XIII. | Swedenborg's Sanity | 156 |
| XIV. | Psychical Research | 168 |
| XV. | Swedenborg's Clairvoyance | 180 |
| XVI. | Automatic Writing | 201 |
| XVII. | "What is a Spirit?" | 217 |
| XVIII. | "Arcana Celestia" | 230 |
| XIX. | Space, Time and Memory | 250 |
| XX. | Speech, Odors, Auras | 262 |
| XXI. | Gardener, Statesman, Author | 271 |
| XXII. | Interworld "Correspondence" | 285 |
| XXIII. | Stories from Beyond | 302 |
| XXIV. | Marriages in Heaven | 314 |
| XXV. | Swedenborg in Daily Life | 325 |
| XXVI. | Amsterdam Report | 336 |
| XXVII. | Balm in England | 344 |
| XXVIII. | Swedenborg's Religion | 352 |
| XXIX. | A Happy End | 360 |
| General Sources | 364 | |
| Notes and References | 365 | |
| Index | 383 |
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