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In Search of the Soul |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND SPIRIT |
| Author: Michael Moore |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,310 Words, 13,849 Characters |
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Emanuel Swedenborg, a famous Enlightenment scientist and theologian, spent most of his twofold career trying to explain religion in a rational way. vbcrlf Michael Moore is a former editor of Cruel Worldmagazine in Boston. He is currently writing a novel about Johnny Appleseed. vbcrlfWhen Ulrika Eleonora was crowned queen of Sweden in 1719--eight years before the death of Isaac Newton--a scientist close to the throne named Emanuel Swedenborg dedicated his newest book to her, a treatise called The Height of the Waters, and Strong Tides in the Primeval World. The book cited layers of sediment and fossilized animals as evidence that Sweden was once covered by the sea. vbcrlfSwedenborg was thirty-one, a young intellectual with talent and promise; over a hundred years later Ralph Waldo Eme...
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...angerous to let one man have so much silent influence. Why isn't he more widely known? "The risk of taking Swedenborg seriously," wrote Milosz, "was too great." vbcrlfAdditional reading vbcrlfRobin Larsen, editor, Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision, Swedenborg Foundation, New York, 1988. Cyriel Odhner Sigstedt, The Swedenborg Epic, University Press, Cambridge, England, 1981. vbcrlf
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