How To Use Swedenborg In A Sentence
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At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest.
What Happened to the Baby?
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On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
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In London he read two books by Swedenborg, even though he had foresworn reading, and in one of these books he found that what had occurred to him that afternoon was called a vastation, and nothing he ever heard again convinced him that it was not so.
The Master
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Swedenborg joined his mysticism with a keen interest in natural science, especially acoustics.
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Jacob Bohme; George Fox, founder of the Quakers; and Emanuel Swedenborg.
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He was going around to park the car and there she was, strolling along right in front of the Swedenborgian Church.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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Swedenborg's angelic guardians were often dispatched to protect dreamers from the infestation of evil spirits, and these visitants answered to the description given such beings, down to the colors of their robes.
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His mother was a Swedenborgian six years older than her husband.
Robert Frost
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Once back in New York and then in Albany, where he moved for two years, the victim of the vastation began to correspond with other Swedenborgians, calling his next son, born in 1845, Garth Wilkinson after one of the most enthusiastic of them.
The Admirable Mrs. James
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Is there still time before Tuesday for a look at the Swedenborgian vote?
RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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'Yes, yes -- I forgot the horrid name -- a Swedenborgian, that is it.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
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Apart from the psychological interest attaching to Swedenborg's strange vision, one cannot but be strongly impressed by the idea pervading them, that to beings suitably constituted all that takes place in other worlds might be known.
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
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He was a Swedenborgian mystic and freelance theologian, as interested in psychic phenomena as radical egalitarian politics.
William James, part 1: A religious man for our times
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But where Swedenborg uses a vaguely deterministic vocabulary to speak of creaturely activity (stating that bees and silkworms are "impelled" to behave in certain ways), Blake's Oothoon chooses to speak of such activity in terms of multiplicitous "joys" and "loves" (3: 6, 8, 11-12), terms carrying connotations of freedom rather than coercion or enslavement.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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Swedenborg's case is of course the palmary one of audita et visa, serving as a basis of religious revelation.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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It is, however, unfortunately marred by a ridiculous attempt to show a likeness between "Cagliostro" and Swedenborg, for which, by the way, Mr. Trowbridge has already been criticised by the Spectator.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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After 1734, Swedenborg turned to the study of physiology and psychology, in which fields he was also a brilliant pioneer.
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This "vastation," I maintain contra Swedenborg, is the Sublime spoor of Azathoth.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, did not graft any of the apples he brought with him on his treks westward from New England, because his Swedenborgian Church viewed grafting exactly as many religions today view genetic engineering: only God could create an apple.
Beyond the McIntosh
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The 1893 World Parliament of Religions was suggested by a Swedenborgian lawyer (Chryssides, 1998: 75), and was co-organised by the Free Religious Association, founded in 1867 by a group of Unitarians who affirmed that a universal spirit underlay all historic faiths (Hill, undated: 16).
The Rammohun Roy connection
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Chapman kept Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell" with the Bible in his cookpot hat.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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She wasn't a Christian or Jew or any of the major religions, and spoke about that--but she's also sometimes associated with Swedenborgian beliefs, so maybe it's just a case where everybody wants to claim Helen Keller.
Disability and Freethinking
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This, Paul Fisher points out, could easily have been caused by drink, but its shivering victim later came to the view that he had undergone what Swedenborg called "a vastation.
The Admirable Mrs. James
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The entire scheme of Christianity disappeared from my firmament; but, in the immediately previous years, I had been a reader of Swedenborg, and I held immovably an intuition of immortality, -- or, if the term intuition be denied me, the conviction that immortality was the foundation of human existence, grounded in my earliest thoughts, and as clear as the sense of light, -- and this never failed me.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
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Swedenborg claimed that his special mission was to reveal the true spiritual meaning of Scripture.
