Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision

This commemorative volume, containing over 400 colour and black-and-white illustrations offers today's reader an incomparable survey of the prodigious accomplishments, spiritual insights and enduring influences of one of the supreme intellects of all time.

This commemorative volume on the life and influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) includes a pictoral biography and essays on topics ranging from Swedenborg in the arts and psychology to examinations of his science and descriptions of the places he lived and worked. This is the most comprehensive book about Emanuel Swedenborg in print.

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This lavishly illustrated anthology of essays and poems treats the life, times, and influence of the 18th-century naturalist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. The editors have collected 51 recent essays by a wide assortment of noted scholars and writers, including Kathleen Raine and Czeslaw Milosz. Originally a mining engineer, Swedenborg was a polymath who became a seer and mystic, producing a large and influential body of theological writings that left lasting impressions on figures from Blake to Emerson to Frank Lloyd Wright. While the collection of essays lacks the depth and coherence of a unified treatment of Swedenborg's thought, its range gives some idea of the extensiveness of his influence on art, music, literature, architecture, psychology, and even city planning.-- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.

Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., is the author of "The Shaman's Doorway" and "The Mythic Imagination," He is a practicing psychotherapist and a professor at Ulster County Community College. Robin Larsen, Ph.D., is an exhibiting artist and art historian. She is editor-in-chief of the tricentennial biography and anthology "Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision," The Larsens co-direct the Center for Symbolic Studies in New Paltz, New York.