A collection of Swedenborg's most striking insights about life in heaven, with vivid descriptions of angels' homes, their language, their communities, and even their romantic relationships ... The introduction by Grant Schnarr gives readers a modern framework for understanding Swedenborg's compelling vision of the spiritual world. -- from back cover.

Excerpt from Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: With Some Account of His Writings There are perhaps few eminent men of modern times, who have been so misunderstood hs Swedenborg; and none of whom so little is now really and truly known by the general scholar. A very prevalent idea in regard to him seems to be, that he was a man of a wild and distem pered fancy, -nu enthusiastic visionary, or mere dream er. And this Opinion has doubtless originated partly with persons who have not understood his writings, and partly with those who have felt interested in opposing their pro gress; and having occasionally found its way into some public journals, and in a few instances into Biographical Dictionaries, it has at length obtained very general cre dense, and is now received by a multitude of people who have never taken the trouble to examine its validity, or perhaps have never had the opportunity and means of doing so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Available for the first time in paperback, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's eminently readable translation of Ernst Benz' classic work of scholarship stands as one of the most comprehensive biographies of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.