# Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic/Notes and References

NOTES AND REFERENCES
(Unless prefaced by "p" for page, a number after the title of one of Swedenborg's books refers to the paragraph number.)
CHAPTER ONE: WHY SWEDENBORG
| 1. | Erik Nordensköld, History of Biology (New York, Tudor Press, 1936). |
| 2. | Transactions of the International Swedenborg Congress (London, 1910). |
| 3. | Swedenborg, E.A.K., tr. by A. Clissold (2d ed. New York, New Church Press), Vol. I, 18. |
| 4. | Idem, 19. |
| 5. | Cited by Professor Herbert Dingle in Swedenborg as a Physical Scientist (London, Swedenborg Society), p. 11. |
| 6. | William James, Varieties of Religious Experience (New York, The Modern Library), p. 19. |
| 7. | F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. |
| 8. | Tafel, doc. 252, p. 409. |
CHAPTER TWO: STOCKHOLM SHOCKED
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 249. |
| 2. | Tafel, doc. 6, p. 65 n. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 250 A. |
| 4. | Geyer, cited by Tafel, Vol. I, p. 631 nn. |
| 5. | Tafel, Vol. I, p. 633. |
| 6. | Tafel, doc. 252 A. |
| 7. | Tafel, doc. 252 F. |
| 8. | Nicholas Collin, "A New Document Concerning Swedenborg." ed. by Sigrid Odhner Sigstedt, N.C.L., January, 1914, pp. 51 ff. |
| 9. | Tafel, doc. 255, par. 24. |
CHAPTER THREE: PARENT EXTRAORDINARY
| 1. | Blaise Pascal, Penseés. |
| 2. | Tafel, doc. 6, p. 59 n. |
| 3. | Jesper Swedbergs lefwernes beskrifning. ed. by Gunnar Wetterberg (Lund, Gleerup, 1941). This work is the source of what follows in this chapter concerning Jesper Swedberg and his family. |
| 4. | Tafel, doc. 9 B. |
| 5. | Swedenborg, A.K., 65. |
| 6. | See "Pietism" Enc. Brit., 13th ed. |
| 7. | Ehrenborg documents, Chronological List of Swedenborg Documents (Bryn Athyn, Pa., Library, Academy of the New Church), p. 3. |
| 8. | Tafel, doc. 2. |
| 9. | Swedenborg, C.L., 395. |
CHAPTER FOUR: UNDERGRADUATE AT UPSALA
| 1. | Chronological List, Bryn Athyn Library, doc. b; Tafel, Vol. I, p. 672; see also Arvid Hj. Uggla, Ett läkarebibliothek från början af 1700-talet (Upsala, 1945). |
| 2. | Tafel, Vol. I, p. 672. ​ |
| 3. | Swedenborg, Sp.D., 4717. |
| 4. | Swedenborg, The Infinite and the Final Cause of Creation, tr. by J. J. Garth Wilkinson (London, 1908), p. 3. |
| 5. | A. H. Stroh, The Cartesian Controversy at Uppsala, etc. (Heidelberg. Sonderabdrück aus den Verhandlungen des III internationale Kongresses für Philosophie, 1908). |
| 6. | John Veitch, The Philosophy of Descartes (New York, Tudor). |
| 7. | Stroh, op. cit. |
| 8. | For Swedenborg and student life, see Constitutiones Nationis Dalekarlo-Vettmannicae, Jämte gre någre anteckningar om Emanuel Swedenborgs studentertid i Uppsala, 1699-1709 (Uppsala, 1910, utgifna af Vestmanlandsdala Nation). |
| 9. | Ibid. |
| 10. | Book at Library, Bryn Athyn, with his name and the date written on it by Swedenborg. |
| 11. | See translations and annotations by Professor Enoch Price in N.P. from October, 1931, to January, 1935 (Bryn Athyn, Pa.). |
| 12. | Nordensköld, History of Biology. |
| 13. | Mrs. Alfred H. Stroh, widow of the fine Swedenborgian scholar, possesses this painting. It is anonymous, both as to painter and subject, but Stroh was convinced that the tradition was correct which said the painting represented Swedenborg, and if it is compared with the Bernigroth engraving and with the Per Krafft d.ä. painting at Gripsholm one cannot but agree. |
| 14. | See Frans Bengtsson, Karl XII, a brilliant study of the king, while for the period's general history see C. Grimberg, Svenska folkets underbara öden, Vols. IV, V, VI Stockholm, Norstedt). |
| 15. | Disputatio Academica Emanuelis Swedbergii. Photostat original ed. (Stockholm). |
| 16. | C.L. |
| 17. | Bengtsson, op. cit. |
| 18. | For the letters of Swedenborg, beginning with the one written July 13, 1709, the excellent translations, with notes, by Dr. Alfred Acton have been made use of. They are published in the issues of N.P. from January, 1938, and still continuing. The current issue (January, 1947) brings the translations up to 1745. |
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND
| 1. | Wilmarth S. Lewis, Three Tours through London (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1941). |
| 2. | John Gay, cited by Walter Besant, London in the 18th Century. |
| 3. | Lewis, op. cit. |
| 4. | Swedenborgs Drömmar. |
| 5. | Suggested by E. A. G. Kleen in his Swedenborg (Stockholm, 1917, 1920). |
| 6. | Alfred Acton, op. cit. |
| 7. | Dr. C. P. Oliver, Director of the Flower Observatory. |
| 8. | Chronological List, Bryn Athyn Library, no. 4. |
| 9. | "Minor Poems of Swedenborg," tr. by Frank Sewall, N.P., April, 1916. |
| 10. | Tr. by Alfred Acton, N.P., January, 1940. See also for illustrated descriptions: The Mechanical Inventions of Emanuel Swedenborg, tr. and ed. by Acton (Philadelphia, Swedenborg Scientific Assoc., 1939). |
CHAPTER SIX: ENGINEER AND MINING EXPERT
| 1. | Bengtsson, Karl XII. |
| 2. | N.P., January,, 1940, p. 266. |
| 3. | N.P., April, 1940, p. 299. |
| 4. | N.P., July, 1940, p. 347. |
| 5. | "Assessor Swedenborg," by S. C. Odhner, N.C.L., p. 228. ​ |
| 6. | N.P., April, 1941, p. 38. |
| 7. | N.P., October, 1941, pp. 122 ff. |
| 8. | Professor A. G. Nathorst, Superintendent of the Geological Dept., Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, cited by A. H. Stroh in Några vittnebörd om vetenskapsmannen Swedenborg (Stockholm, 1909). |
| 9. | "Assessor Swedenborg," by S. C. Odhner, N.C.L. April, 1927, p. 225. |
| 10. | Idem, p. 230. |
| 11. | See N.P., July, October, 1943; all of 1944; April, July, October, 1945. |
| 12. | Introduction to Psychological Transactions, tr. Alfred Acton. |
| 13. | Resebeskrifningar af Emanuel Swedenborg, under åren 1710-1739 (Uppsala, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiet, 1910). |
CHAPTER SEVEN: PHYSICIST AND PHYSIOLOGIST
| 1. | Swedenborg Summary of Principia, tr. by A. H. Stroh (Bryn Athyn, Pa., Swedenborg Scientiﬁc Assoc., 1904). |
| 2. | Svante Arrhenius, Emanuel Swedenhorg as a Cosmologist (Stockholm, 1908). |
| 3. | For a modern appraisal, see Swedenborg as a Physical Scientist, by Professor Herbert Dingle, D.Sc., A.R.C.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London. (Professor Dingle is an astronomer and physicist.) Trans. 4 (London, Swedenborg Society, Inc., 1938). |
| 4. | Idem, quotation from Swedenborg's Principia. |
| 5. | Heyl, New Frontiers of Physics, p. 113. |
| 6. | Harold Gardiner, M.S., F.R.C.S., Swedenborg and Modern Ideas of the Universe, Trans. 1 (London, Swedenborg Society, Inc.). |
| 7. | Ibid. |
| 8. | Sir James Jeans, Physics and Philosophy, p. 175. |
| 9. | Tafel, doc. 26. |
| 10. | Jesper Swedbergs lefwerness beskrifning, p. 591. |
| 11. | Enc. Brit. (13th ed.), Vol. I, p. 934. |
| 12. | Tafel, doc. 121. |
| 13. | N.P. January, 1934, pp. 276 ff.; October, 1934, pp. 361 ff. |
| 14. | Preface, Opera Philosophica et Mineralic, Vol. II. |
| 15. | Tafel, doc. 5, sec. 54. |
| 16. | E. A. G. Kleen, Swedenborg (Stockholm, 1917, 1920), p. 378. |
| 17. | Tafel, Vol. I, p. 699. |
CHAPTER EIGHT: DISSECTING ROOMS ABROAD
| 1. | See "Penn, William," Enc. Brit., 13th ed. |
| 2. | Sp.D., 2821. |
| 3. | Summary of Principia, p. 11. |
| 4. | Idem, p. 10, chap. i, summarized by A. H. Stroh. |
| 5. | Swedenborg, Of the Inﬁnite . . ., p. 100. |
| 6. | Rufus M. Jones, Spiritual Reformers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (London, Macmillan & Co.). |
| 7. | Ibid. |
| 8. | Of the Infinite . . . , p. 111. |
| 9. | Idem, p. 112. |
| 10. | Idem, p. 229. |
| 11. | Idem, p. 181. |
| 12. | Idem, p. 230. |
| 13. | Ibid. |
| 14. | On Tremulations, tr. by C. Th. Odhner (Boston), p. 5. ​ |
| 15. | Idem, p. 6. |
| 16. | Nordensköld, History of Biology, pp. 177 ff. |
| 17. | Psychologica Empirica, Latin—English, tr. by Alfred Acton. |
| 18. | Resebeskrifningar af Emanuel Swedenborg. |
| 19. | C.L., 537. |
| 20. | The Way to a Knowledge of the Soul, p. 46. |
| 21. | Idem, p. 47. |
| 22. | A.K., Vol. II, p. 608. |
| 23. | See “Anatomy," Enc. Brit., 13th ed. |
CHAPTER NINE: ANATOMY OF MIND AND BODY
| 1. | Emerson, “Swedenborg,” in Representative Men (Boston, Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1879), p. 88. |
| 2. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 652. |
| 3. | Ibid. |
| 4. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 214. |
| 5. | Haggard, Howard W., M.D., Professor and Director, Laboratory of Applied Physiology, Yale University, Swedenborg as a Physiologist (Hawthorne, N. J., Swedenborg Publishing Society). |
| 6. | Några vittnesbörd om vetenskapsmannen Swedenborg, samlade af A. H. Stroh (Stockholm, 1909). |
| 7. | Ibid.; see also L. Tafel, in N.P., July, 1942, p. 213. |
| 8. | British Medical Journal, October 15, 1910. |
| 9. | F. T. Lewis. in Science. Reprinted in N.P., October, 1942. |
| 10. | Ibid. (At this period Swedenborg believed he sometimes received instruction in dreams.) |
| 11. | M. F. Ashley Montagu, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in Isis, pub. by History of Science Society; cited in N.P., January, 1942, p. 146. |
| 12. | Gardner Murphy, "Psychical Research and the Mind-body Relation," Journal A.S.P.R., October, 1946. |
| 13. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 283. |
| 14. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 217. |
| 15. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 214. |
| 16. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 199. |
| 17. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 64. |
| 18. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 253. |
| 19. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 275. |
| 20. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 247, 248. |
| 21. | Ibid. |
| 22. | E.A.K., Vol. I, 255. |
| 23. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 235. |
| 24. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 236. |
| 25. | See Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1945). |
| 26. | Idem, par. 6. |
| 27. | Idem, par. 64. |
| 28. | Idem, Epilogue, p. 87. |
| 29. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 168. |
| 30. | E.A.K., Vol. II. 304. |
| 31. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 303. |
| 32. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 311. |
| 33. | Ibid. |
| 34. | Ibid. |
| 35. | Ibid. ​ |
| 36. | Gustaf Strömberg, The Soul of the Universe (Philadelphia, McKay, 1940). |
| 37. | Idem, p. 49. |
| 38. | Idem, p. 87. |
| 39. | Idem, p. 97. |
| 40. | See E.A.K., “On the Formation of the Chick, etc.," Vol. I, 168, 247 ff.; also “The Animal Spirit," in Psychological Transactions, tr. by Alfred Acton. |
| 41. | Psychologica Empirica, Latin-English. |
| 42. | Arthur Koestler, The Yogi and the Commissar (New York, Macmillan, 1945). |
| 43. | Idem, p. 235. |
| 44. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 579 ff. |
| 45. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 649. |
| 46. | D.L.W., 184. |
| 47. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 290. |
| 48. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 630. |
| 49. | E.A.K., Vol. ll, 622. |
| 50. | Posthumous Tracts, tr. by J. J. Garth Wilkinson (London, 1847). |
| 51. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 310. |
| 52. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 251. |
CHAPTER TEN: ANATOMY OF SOUL
| 1. | Rufus Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (New York, Macmillan). |
| 2. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 356. |
| 3. | E. S. had Stiernhielm's copy of Plotinus. |
| 4. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 250. |
| 5. | See E. A. Hitchcock, Swedenborg, A Hermetic Philosopher (New York, Appleton & Co., 1858). |
| 6. | See S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy (London, Allen & Unwin) for best general account. |
| 7. | See Grace H. Turnbull, The Essence of Plotinus (Oxford Univ. Press), extracts from Enneads, based on the McKenna translation. |
| 8. | Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York, Harper). |
| 9. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 208. |
| 10. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 209, 210. |
| 11. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 213. |
| 12. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 273. |
| 13. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 274. |
| 14. | E.A.K., Vol. ll, 269. |
| 15. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 277. |
| 16. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 304. |
| 17. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 277. |
| 18. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 294. |
| 19. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 279. |
| 20. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 281. |
| 21. | Ibid. |
| 22. | Ibid. |
| 23. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 317. |
| 24. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 320. |
| 25. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 322. |
| 26. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 323. |
| 27. | Ibid. |
| 28. | Ibid. |
| 29. | Ibid. |
| 30. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 329. ​ |
| 31. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 330. |
| 32. | Ibid. |
| 33. | Ibid. |
| 34. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 331. |
| 35. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 366. |
| 36. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 331. |
| 37. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 327. |
| 38. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 323. |
| 39. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 324. |
| 40. | Psychological Transactions, p. 48. |
| 41. | E.A.K., Vol. I. 22. |
CHAPTER ELEVEN: STRANGE DREAMS AND "TEMPTATIONS"
| 1. | A Philosopher’s Notebook, tr. and ed. by Alfred Acton (Philadelphia, Swedenborg Scientiﬁc Association, 1931). |
| 2. | Idem, p. 37. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 163. |
| 4. | N.P., October, 1931. |
| 5. | Tafel, doc. 127. |
| 6. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 352. |
| 7. | “Subconscious Reasoning," by Wm. Romaine Newbold, Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 30, p.11. |
| 8. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 10, 42. |
| 9. | Swedenborgs Drömmar (Stockholm, J. and A. Riis, 1860), p. 62. This is the edition of Swedenborg's “Dream Diary" (D.D.) to which references are made in this biography. |
| 10. | "Corpuscular Philosophy," Scientiﬁc and Philosophical Treatises, Pt. 2. |
| 11. | W.E., 6905. |
| 12. | Sp.D. 2951 |
| 13. | The Fibre, tr. by Alfred Acton, 525 ff. |
| 14. | Ibid. |
| 15. | K. T. Behanan, Yoga (New York, Macmillan, 1937). |
| 16. | Theos Bernard, Hatha Yoga (New York, Columbia University Press, 1945). |
| 17. | Behanan, op. cit., p. 199. |
| 18. | See pages 218—219. |
| 19. | A.K., 22. |
| 20. | A.K., 20. |
| 21. | Swedenborgs Drömmar (Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1858), ed. by G. E. Klemming, published privately for the ﬁrst time in 1858. |
| 22. | The Philosopher’s Notebook. |
| 23. | E.A.K., Vol. II, 265. |
| 24. | The Fibre, 507. |
| 25. | Ibid. |
| 26. | A.K., Vol. I, 13. |
| 27. | A.K., Vol. II, 463. |
| 28. | Tafel, doc. 164 B. |
| 29. | D.D., p. 17. |
| 30. | The Fibre, 488. |
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE GREAT VISION
| 1. | D.D. |
| 2. | D.D., p. 3. ​ |
| 3. | Generation, tr. by Alfred Acton. |
| 4. | D.D., p. 30. |
| 5. | D.D., p. 37. |
| 6. | The Soul, tr. by Frank Sewall, 208. |
| 7. | D.D., pp. 19, 20. |
| 8. | W.E., 541. |
| 9. | D.D., p. 42. |
| 10. | Ibid. |
| 11. | D.D., p. 17. |
| 12. | D.D., pp. 10 ff. |
| 13. | “Fac et spera.” |
| 14. | A.K., Vol. I, 12. |
| 15. | D.D., p. 43. |
| 16. | Alfred Acton, Intro. to W.E., p. 83. |
| 17. | D.D., p. 46. |
| 18. | A.K., Vol. II, 565. |
| 19. | A.K., Vol. II, 566 n. |
| 20. | Acton, Intro. to W.E., p. 84. |
| 21. | The Soul, 31. |
| 22. | A.K., Epilogue, 458. |
| 23. | The Senses, tr. by Enoch S. Price, 592. |
| 24. | Idem, 601. |
| 25. | Idem, 581. |
| 26. | Idem, 534. |
| 27. | Idem, 641. |
| 28. | W.L.G., tr. by A. H. Stroh and F. Sewall, 80. |
| 29. | W.L.G., 56. |
| 30. | Ibid. |
| 31. | Rufus M. Jones, Spiritual Reformers of the 16th and 17th Centuries (London, Macmillan & Co.), p. 101. |
| 32. | Ibid. |
| 33. | Tafel, doc. 5, par. 15. |
| 34. | Sp.D., 397. |
| 35. | Gustave Géley, From the Conscious to the Unconscious (1920). |
| 36. | W.E., 3557. |
| 37. | W.E., 1003. |
| 38. | Tafel, Vol. II, Pt. 2, n. 168. |
| 39. | W.E., 541. |
| 40. | W.E., 475. |
| 41. | D.D., pp. 32, 34. |
| 42. | Tafel, docs. 165, 166. |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SWEDENBORG’S SANITY
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 129. |
| 2. | W.E., 3347. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 167 B. |
| 4. | Tafel, 270. |
| 5. | C. D. Broad. Presidential Address, Proceeding S.P.R., vol. XLIII, p. 398. |
| 6. | Jones, Spiritual Reformers. |
| 7. | Martin Lamm, Swedenborg (Stockholm, 1913). |
| 8. | Hitchcock, op. cit. |
| 9. | The Soul, 522. |
| 10. | William James, Varieties of Religious Experience. ​ |
| 11. | Th. Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars (New York, Harper 81 Bros.). |
| 12. | F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality . . . |
| 13. | Finsk Tidsskrift (1923), p. 281. |
| 14. | Cited by H. D. Spoerl, in New Christianity, Winter, 1937, p. 14. |
| 15. | Karl Jaspers, Strindberg und van Gogh (Berlin, Springer, 1926). |
| 16. | See “Psychoanalysis in Modern Literature," Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, p. 657. |
| 17. | Sp.D., 1166. |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
| 1. | See Gardner Murphy, “Parapsychology," Enc. of Psych., p. 422, for criticism of methods. |
| 2. | See for example, Hodgson and Davey, "The Possibilities of Malobservation and Lapse of Memory . . . ," Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 11; and Th. Bestermann, “The Psychology of Testimony," Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 124. |
| 3. | Book List 75, compiled by the (English) National Book Council, contains a selected list of books on psychical research, with prices. Price one penny from the Society for Psychical Research, 31, Tavistock Sq., London, W.C. 1, England. For technical reports of experiments, see Enc. of Psych., p. 434. An excellent general bibliography is included in G. N. M. Tyrrell's The Personality of Man (Pelican Book, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1946). This book, together with Mr. Tyrrell's Science and Psychical Phenomena (London, Methuen, 1938), Whately Carington's Thought Transference (New York, Creative Age Press, 1946. London, Methuen, 1945, under title Telepathy), and I. B. Rhine's The Reach of the Mind (New York, William Sloane, Associates, 1947) will provide a good introduction to the subject. |
| 4. | See Murphy, "Parapsychology," Enc. Psych. |
| 5. | Tyrrell, op. cit. |
| 6. | Ibid. |
| 7. | Proceeding: S.P.R., Vol. XLVII, pp. 21-150. |
| 8. | Ibid., p. 107. |
| 9. | Murphy, "Parapsychology." Enc. Psych. |
| 10. | "Experiments on the Paranormal Cognition of Drawings, IV," Proceedings, S.P.R., Pt. 168 (July, 1944). |
| 11. | Overton Luhr, Physics Tells Why (Lancaster, Pa., The Jacques Cattell Press, 1943), p. 269. See, however, "Telepathy and Electromagnetic Waves," by A. I. B. Robertson, Journal S.P.R., No. 631-632, p. 7, for a technical discussion seeking to prove that telepathy has a relation to electromagnetic radiation. According to Mr. Robertson, no "code" would be necessary, if the process were conceived as resembling television broadcasting. |
| 12. | The Soul, 31. |
| 13. | Idem, 110. |
| 14. | Sidis and Goodheart, Multiple Personality; W. McDougall, Outline of Abnormal Psychology. For the most noted case, see the report on the Misses Beauchamp, by Morton Prince, Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 11, Vol. XV (February, 1901). |
| 15. | John Layard, "Psi Phenomena and Poltergeists," Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 168 (July, 1944). Payne and Bendit, The Psychic Sense (London, Faber and Faber, 1943). |
| 15$^{a.}$ | J. B. Rhine, “Pierre Janet's Contribution to Parapsychology," The Journal of Parapsychology, September, 1947, p. 155. |
| 16. | G. N. M. Tyrrell, Apparitions (London, Society for Psychical Research, 1942). Publications of the Society for Psychical Research (English) can be ordered from F. W. Faxon, 83 Francis St., Boston, Mass. |
| 17. | Sp.D., 4250. |
| 18. | Sp.D., 2898. |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SWEDENBORG'S CLAIRVOYANCE
| 1. | N.C.L., January, 1927, p. 3; and N.P., April, 1943, p. 303. |
| 2. | D.D. |
| 3. | Idem, pp. 15, 30. |
| 4. | Idem, p. 62. |
| 5. | Idem, p. 37. |
| 6. | Idem, p. 28. |
| 7. | Idem, p. 53. |
| 8. | See Jolan Jacobi, The Psychology of Jung (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1943), p. 87. |
| 9. | Idem, p. 59. |
| 10. | Journal A.S.P.R., January, 1944, pp. 18, 19. |
| 11. | The Fibre, 526. |
| 12. | Murphy, “Parapsychology," Enc. Psych., p. 417. |
| 13. | Tafel, doc. 272, p. 625. |
| 14. | Tafel, doc. 273 A. The dates in brackets are not those of what purports to be the original letter, but Tafel, in his doc. 272, p. 620 ff., convincingly explains that the latter dates have been falsified. The letter, as published in Borowski's Life of Kant, is dated 1758. In it, as cited, Kant assures his esteemed correspondent, Charlotte von Knobloch, that the authenticity of the Gothenburg story could not be questioned. In 1766, Kant published Dreams of a Spiritseer, in which he made fun of “Schwedenberg” for his credulity. The inference would be that Kant later on, after he had presumably investigated still further, had changed his mind about Swedenborg's powers. But the Stockholm fire and Swedenborg's perception of it while he was in Gothenburg did not take place till 1759. In the letter to C. von Knobloch, thus wrongly dated (or rather re-dated by persons unknown) where Swedenborg's name is correctly spelled, there is still more overwhelming evidence that it could not have been written till after 1766, most probably in 1768. |
| 15. | Tafel, doc. 271, p. 616 n. |
| 16. | Tafel, doc. 291, p. 724. |
| 17. | Tafel, doc. 257 B. |
| 18. | Carington, "Experiments on the Paranormal . . . ," Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 168 (July, 1944); J. Hettinger, The Ultra-Perceptive Faculty (London, 1940), and J. Hettinger "Psychometric Telepathy Across the Atlantic," Journal A.S.P.R., July, 1947, p. 94. |
| 19. | Murphy, “Parapsychology," Enc. Psych., p. 419. |
| 20. | Ludvig Holberg, Udvalgte Epistler, ed. by Fr. Winkel Horn (Copenhagen, Chr. Steen, 1884). |
| 21. | Carl Grimberg, Svenska folkets underbara öden, Vol. IV, p. 415. |
| 22. | Tafel, doc. 275 H. |
| 23. | S. C. Odhner, "New Documents Concerning Swedenborg," N.C.L., February, 1916, p. 99. |
| 24. | Tafel, doc. 275 P. |
| 25. | Tafel, doc. 275 F. |
| 26. | Tafel, doc. 274 B. |
| 27. | Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 103. |
| 28. | Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 99, p. 299. |
| 29. | Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 168. |
| 30. | J. G. Pratt, Towards a Method of Evaluating Mediumistic Material (Boston Society for Psychic Research, 1936). |
| 31. | For summaries of these complicated cases see Tyrrell, Science and Psychical Phenomena, p. 230; also Kenneth Richmond, Evidence of Identity (London, C. Bell & Sons, 1939). Complete reports in the Proceedings S.P.R. ​ |
| 32. | See Anita Mühl, Automatic Writing (Dresden and Leipzig, Steinkopf, 1930). |
| 33. | Journal A.S.P.R., October, 1945. |
| 34. | Ibid. |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: AUTOMATIC WRITING
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 92. |
| 2. | The Word Explained, ed. and tr. by Alfred Acton (Bryn Athyn, Pa., Academy of the New Church). |
| 3. | D.D. |
| 4. | "Origen," Enc. Brit., 13th ed. |
| 5. | C. Th. Odhner, in N.C.L., March, 1903, p. 136. |
| 6. | N.C.L., April, 1903. |
| 7. | "Origen," Enc. Brit., 13th ed. |
| 8. | W.E., 378. |
| 9. | The Philosopher's Notebook, p. 275. |
| 10. | Acton, Intro. to W.E., p. 122. |
| 11. | See Mühl, Automatic Writing. |
| 12. | W£., 459. |
| 13. | W.E., 1150. |
| 14. | W.E., 7006. |
| 15. | W.E., 4812. |
| 16. | W.E., 4849. |
| 17. | W.E., 1511. |
| 18. | W.E., Vol. II, pp. 493, 494, footnotes to 1511. |
| 19. | Ibid. |
| 20. | Ibid. |
| 21. | W.E., 1892. |
| 22. | W .E., 5652. |
| 23. | W.E., 6389. |
| 24. | W.E., 7425. |
| 25. | See Rufus M. Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (Macmillan, 1909). |
| 26. | W.E., 1510. |
| 27. | W.E., 1712. |
| 28. | The Philosopher’s Notebook. |
| 29. | W.E., 6257. |
| 30. | W.E., 6232. |
| 31. | W.E., 932. |
| 32. | Codices 59, 60, 61. |
| 33. | Codex 74. |
| 34. | Codex 59, pars. 979-997. |
| 35. | Else F. Kronheimer, 26 St. Margaret's Road, Oxford, England. (B. Sc., thesis: "Personality Development in the Light of Graphological Inquiry.") |
| 36. | Sp.D., 2962. |
| 37. | Codex 2. |
| 38. | Codex 88. |
| 39. | Codex 3. |
| 40. | C.L. |
| 41. | The Spiritual Diary of Emanuel Swedenborg. Vol. I, tr. by J. H. Smithson (London, 1846); Vol. II, tr. by George Bush (Boston 1886); Vol. III, tr. by Bush and Smithson (London, 1883); Vol. IV, tr. by George Bush and James F. Buss (London, 1889); Vol. V, tr. by James F. Buss (London, 1902). |
| 42. | W.E., 5292. |
| 43. | Ibid. ​ |
| 44. | Ibid. |
| 45. | W.E., 968. |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: "WHAT IS A SPIRIT?"
| 1. | Sp.D., 281. |
| 2. | Sp.D., 1499. |
| 3. | Sp.D., 3317. |
| 4. | Sp.D., 3464. |
| 5. | Ibid. |
| 6. | Sp.D., 1613-1615. |
| 7. | Sp.D., 3320. |
| 8. | Sp.D., 1612-1615. |
| 9. | Bernard, Hatha Yoga, p. 47. |
| 10. | See Dr. Th. Brosse in Bulletin du Centre Homéopathique de France, February, 1937. cited in Main Currents in Modern Thought, July, 1946. |
| 11. | Sp.D., 402. |
| 12. | Sp.D., 651. |
| 13. | A.C., 1884-1885. |
| 14. | Ibid. |
| 15. | Sp.D., 651. |
| 16. | Tafel, doc. 255. |
| 17. | W.L.G., p. 229. |
| 18. | Sp.D., 651. |
| 19. | Sp.D., 2894. |
| 20. | W.E., 5004. |
| 21. | A.C., 68. |
| 22. | Sp.D., 3470. |
| 23. | Sp.D., 2366. |
| 24. | Sp.D., 2386. |
| 25. | Sp.D., 2355. |
| 26. | A.C., 444-445. |
| 27. | A.C., 447. |
| 28. | D.L.W., 257. |
| 29. | See C. Th. Odhner, "The Limbus," N.C.L., April, May, June, 1903; Henri de Geymuller, Swedenborg et les Phenomènes Psychiques (Paris, Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1934) and, for a modern theory of a "non-physical but real" body, C. Drayton Thomas, "A New Hypothesis Concerning Trance Communications," Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 173, May. 1947. |
| 30. | Sp.D., 242, 3472. |
| 31. | W.E., 1150 B. |
| 32. | Sp.D., 2251. |
| 33. | Sp.D., 1564-1565. |
| 34. | Sp.D., 2440-2441. |
| 35. | Sp.D., 2037. |
| 36. | Sp.D., 438. |
| 37. | Sp.D., 192. |
| 38. | Sp.D., 1399. |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: "ARCANA CELESTIA"
| 1. | Acton, Intro. to W.E. |
| 2. | Tafel, doc. 258. ​ |
| 3. | W.E., 378. |
| 4. | A.C., 3412. |
| 5. | Sp.D., 1647. |
| 6. | W.E., p. xvii, n. |
| 7. | Jones, Spiritual Reformers. |
| 7$^{a.}$ | The auctioneer's list of Swedenborg's books to be sold after his death has been published in facsimile as Catalogus Bibliothecae, Emanuelis Swedenborgii, ed. Alfred H. Stroh, Stockholm, 1907. It contains few "occult" books, but all his books may not have been sold, and he spent much time in foreign libraries. |
| 8. | D.L.W., 257. |
| 9. | Sp.D., 480. |
| 10. | See Jacob Boehme, "Of Heaven and Hell," in The Signature of All Things, Everyman's Library, no. 569. |
| 11. | See P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe (Knopf, 1934), p. 142. |
| 12. | Tyrrell, The Personality of Man. |
| 13. | Acton, Intro. to W.E., p. 134. |
| 14. | Unless otherwise stated, the quotations that follow in this chapter are from Heaven and Hell. |
| 15. | Jacobi, The Psychology of Jung, p. 19. |
| 16. | Sp.D.,a 4731. |
| 17. | Sp.D., 1313-1314. |
| 18. | Sp.D., 5546. |
| 19. | Sp.D., 4677. |
| 20. | Journal A.S.P.R., October, 1945, p. 181. |
| 21. | Sp.D., 306. |
| 22. | Sp.D., 400. |
| 23. | Sp.D., 187. |
| 24. | Sp.D., 293. |
| 25. | Sp.D., 1484. |
| 26. | Sp.D., 3641. |
| 27. | H.H., 203. |
| 28. | Sp.D., 2406. |
| 29. | Sp.D., 1928. |
| 30. | Sp.D., 4337. |
| 31. | Sp.D., 3624. |
| 32. | Sp.D., 2176. |
| 33. | Sp.D., 159, 160. |
| 34. | Tafel, doc. 270. |
| 35. | W.E., 4949. |
| 36. | Sp.D., 2772. |
| 37. | Sp.D., 192. |
| 38. | Sp.D., 2659. |
| 39. | Sp.D., 3858. |
| 40. | Sp.D., 1755. |
| 41. | Sp.D., 2392, 479. |
| 42. | Sp.D., 1907. |
| 43. | Sp.D., 2203. |
| 44. | Sp.D., 557. |
| 45. | A.C., 448. |
CHAPTER NINETEEN: SPACE, TIME, AND MEMORY
| 1. | A.C., 1275. |
| 2. | A.C., 1376. ​ |
| 3. | A.C., 1277. |
| 4. | A.C., 1378. |
| 5. | Tyrrell, Apparitions. |
| 6. | A.C., 1379. |
| 7. | Tyrrell, op. cit., p. 114. |
| 8. | Ibid. |
| 9. | H.H., 193. |
| 10. | H.H., 194. |
| 11. | Sp.D., 5646. |
| 12. | A.C., 5605. |
| 13. | Sp.D., 5623. |
| 14. | Ibid. |
| 15. | The Fibre, 519 ff. |
| 16. | The Five Senses, 601, 602. |
| 17. | Idem, 601. |
| 18. | Henri Bergson, Matière et mémoire (Paris, Alcan, 1900), p. 264. |
| 19. | Sp.D., 887. |
| 20. | Sp.D., 353. |
| 21. | Sp.D., 887. |
| 22. | Sp.D., 4410. |
| 23. | Sp.D., 1662. |
| 24. | Sp.D., 1932. |
| 25. | Sp.D., 1662. |
| 26. | Sp.D., 1622. |
| 27. | Sp.D., 2593. |
| 28. | Bergson, op. cit., pp. 270, 266. |
| 29. | Sp.D., 2989. |
| 30. | Sp.D., 2594; cf. 4556. |
| 31. | See n. 14 to Chap. XIV. |
| 32. | Hans Driesch, Physical Research, (London, Bell, 1933). |
| 33. | Sp.D., 295. |
| 34. | Sp.D., 2156. |
| 35. | Sp.D., 889. |
| 36. | Sp.D., 890. |
| 37. | Sp.D., 4560 m. |
| 38. | Sp.D., 4115 ff. |
| 39. | Sp.D., 1776. |
| 40. | Sp.D., 3869, 4166. |
| 41. | Sp.D., 4558 m. |
| 42. | Sp.D., 4553 m. |
| 43. | Sp.D., 4313. |
| 44. | Sp.D., 1983, 1077, 885-891. |
| 45. | Sp.D., 1078. |
CHAPTER TWENTY: SPEECH, ODORS, AURAS
| 1. | G. W. Balfour, “A Study of the Psychological Aspects of Mrs. Willett's Mediumship and the Statements of the Communicators Concerning Process," Proceeding: S.P.R., Vol. XLIII, p. 41. |
| 2. | Idem, p. 161. |
| 3. | Sp.D., 1342. |
| 4. | Sp.D., 1343, 2308. |
| 5. | Sp.D., 2309. |
| 6. | Sp.D., 5585, 5589. |
| 7. | Sp.D., 5585, 5590. ​ |
| 8. | Sp.D.,5592½. |
| 9. | Sp.D., 5596, 987. |
| 10. | Sp.D., 5564. |
| 11. | Sp.D., 5565. |
| 12. | H.H., 255. |
| 13. | H.H., 240. |
| 14. | H.H., 269. |
| 15. | Sp.D., 3308. |
| 16. | Sp.D., 1584. |
| 17. | A.C., 1504. |
| 18. | A.C., 1514. |
| 19. | Tafel, doc. 302 I. |
| 20. | Ibid. |
| 21. | Ibid. |
| 22. | Sp.D., 1846. |
| 23. | A.C., 1505. |
| 24. | A.C., 1511; Sp.D., 4202. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: GARDENER, STATESMAN, AUTHOR
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 213. |
| 2. | Henrik Alm, Swedenborgs hus och trädgård (Stockholm, 1938). |
| 3. | C. L. Odhner, "Swedenborg's Hobby," N.C.L., February, 1923. |
| 4. | Sp.D., 2072. |
| 5. | Tafel, doc. 5. |
| 6. | Tafel, doc. 492. |
| 7. | Tafel, doc. 173. |
| 8. | Ibid. |
| 9. | Tafel doc. 178. |
| 10. | Tafel, doc. 180. |
| 11. | H.H., 64. |
| 12. | Sp.D., 2451. |
| 13. | Cf. Sp.D., 2652. |
| 14. | Sp.D., 2470. |
| 15. | H.H., 475. |
| 16. | H.H., 478, 524. |
| 17. | H.H., 534. |
| 18. | "Charity," The Coronis (London, W. Newbury, 1843), pp. 127, 128. |
| 18$^{a.}$ | W. Y. Evans—Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford Univ. Press), 1927. |
| 19 | Sp. D., 2413. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: INTERWORLD "CORRESPONDENCE"
| 1. | The Fibre, 378. |
| 2. | D.L.W., 339. |
| 3. | Ibid. |
| 4. | D.L.W., 344. |
| 5. | A.K., 293. |
| 6. | A.C., throughout. |
| 7. | Sp.D., 1145½. ​ |
| 8. | The Philosopher's Notebook, p. 160. |
| 9. | See "Kabbalah," Enc. Brit. (13th ed.), p. 621. |
| 10. | Sp.D., 367. |
| 11. | Sp.D., 670. |
| 12. | Sp.D., 1145⅓. |
| 13. | A.C., 3644. |
| 14. | Sp.D., 1741, 1772. |
| 15. | Sp.D., 1701, 1703. |
| 16. | Sp.D., 986. |
| 17. | Sp.D., 1793. |
| 18. | Sp.D., 1743. 1744. |
| 19. | Sp.D., 1063. |
| 20. | Sp.D., 519. |
| 21. | Sp.D., 1558. |
| 22. | The Philospher's Notebook. See Lynn Thorndike, "The Latin Pseudo-Aristoteles and Medieval Occult Science," in English and Germanic Philology, Vol. XXI (1922). Die sogenannten Theologie des Aristoteles, ed. and tr. by Fr. Dieterich (Leipzig, 1883). |
| 23. | For drawing see Sp.D., Vol. IV, p. 355; for text see p. 213. For Indian hut sec C. Grimberg, Världshistorie (Stockholm, Norstedt), Vol. XI, p. 195. |
| 24. | Sp.D., 6013; see also 6045. |
| 25. | Tafel, doc. 199. |
| 26. | Sp.D., 4742. |
| 27. | Sp.D., 5099. |
| 28. | Sp.D., 2542. |
| 29. | Sp.D., 6064. |
| 30. | Sp.D., 5980. |
| 31. | Tafel, Vol. II, p. 1312. |
| 32. | Sp.D., 5999. |
| 33. | Sp.D., 4354. |
| 34. | Sp.D., 592, 593. |
| 35. | Sp.D., 4315. |
| 36. | Sp.D., 4107, 4233. |
| 37. | Sp.D., 1996. |
| 38. | Sp.D., 5176. |
| 39. | Personal statement to the writer, Sennen Cove, England, November, 1946. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: STORIES FROM BEYOND
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 313, p. 995. |
| 2. | Chronological List of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (Upsala and Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy, 1938). |
| 3. | Ibid. |
| 4. | Tafel, doc. 313. |
| 5. | Sp.D., 5629. |
| 6. | Sp.D., 5043, 5046. |
| 7. | Sp.D., 843. |
| 8. | Sp.D., 5711. |
| 9. | Tafel, docs. 249, 250, 251. |
| 10. | Tafel, doc. 252. |
| 11. | Tafel, doc. 252 E. |
| 12. | Tafel, doc. 6, p. 58. |
| 13. | The Intercourse between the Soul and the Body (Rotch ed.), 19. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: MARRIAGES IN HEAVEN
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 234. |
| 2. | C.L., 92. |
| 3. | C.L., 93, 94. |
| 3$^{a.}$ | Gershom G. Scholcm, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. Schocken Books (New York, 1946). |
| 4. | C.L., 79. |
| 5. | C.L., 44. |
| 6. | C.L., 54. |
| 7. | C.L., 49. |
| 8. | C.L., 326. |
| 9. | Sp.D., 6096. |
| 10. | C,L., 470, 472. |
| 11. | C.L., 42. |
| 12. | C.L., 183. |
| 13. | C.L., 488. |
| 14. | Sp.D., 2622. |
| 15. | C.L., 505. |
| 16. | C.L., 507 ff. |
| 17. | C.L., 512. |
| 18. | C.L., 231. |
| 19. | C.L., 263. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: SWEDENBORG IN DAILY LIFE
| 1. | C.L., 28. |
| 2. | Tafel, doc. 253. |
| 3. | Original manuscript, Swedenborg Society, Inc., London. |
| 4. | Tafel, doc. 291. |
| 5. | Tafel, doc. 243. |
| 6. | Tafel, doc. 255. |
| 7. | A. P. Tuxen, Slægten Tuxen (Copenhagen, 1928). |
| 8. | S. C. Odhner, "A New Document Concerning Swedenborg," N.C.L., January, 1914, p. 45. |
| 9. | Tafel, doc. 6, p. 59. |
| 10. | Tafel, doc. 245 B. |
| 11. | Tafel, doc. 314, p. 1035. |
| 12. | The Fibre, 519 ff. |
| 13. | Proceedings S.P.R., Pt. 11, p. 387 (on memory lapses and substitution). |
| 14. | Tafel, doc. 301, no. 8, p. 757. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: AMSTERDAM REPORT
| 1. | August Scherer, Aufzeichnungen einer Amsterdammer Bürgers (Brussels). Tafel’s translation compared with original and found correct, which is not always the case with his translations from the Swedish. |
| 2. | Summary Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church, 107. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 245 X. |
| 4. | The Intercourse between the Soul and the Body. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: BALM IN ENGLAND
| 1. | See Tafel, doc. 272 ff. |
| 2. | Journal A.S.P.R., October, 1946, p. 189. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 281. |
| 4. | Tafel, Biographical Notes. |
| 5. | Tafel, doc. 1. |
| 6. | Tafel, doc. 261. |
| 7. | Tafel, doc. 261, pp. 529 ff. |
| 8. | Tafel, doc. 263 A. |
| 9. | Tafel, doc. 264 D. |
| 10. | Tafel, doc. 264 A. |
| 11. | Cuno's diary. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: SWEDENBORG’S RELIGION
| 1. | Tafel, doc. 313, p. 1015. |
| 2. | T.C.R., 370. |
| 3. | T.C.R., 125. |
| 4. | T.C.R., 163 ff. |
| 5. | T.C.R., 73. |
| 6. | T.C.R., 126. |
| 7. | T.C.R., 134, no. 3. |
| 8. | Sp.D., 948. |
| 8$^{a.}$ | Sp. D., 2043, 2044. |
| 9. | Divine Providence, 234. |
| 10. | T.C.R., 482. |
| 11. | Sp.D., 6101. |
| 12. | T.C.R., 333. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: A HAPPY END
| 1. | The Coronis. |
| 2. | Tafel, doc. 269 C, p. 577. |
| 3. | Tafel, doc. 267. |
| 4. | Tafel, doc. 264, no. 11. |
| 5. | Sp.D., 3623. |
| 6. | The Five Senses. p. 287. |
| 7. | Tafel, doc. 265. no. 8. |