Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Love and Wisdom

The Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Love and Wisom is an exposition of the true nature of God, based upon the spiritual visions of the author Emanuel Swedenborg who described the spiritual realms of heaven and hell. God is not a God of wrath and anger - instead God is love itself, and He is truth itself. What one loves the most is the very source of life for a person, for without love a person cannot live. But Swedenborg takes this further, and states that God is "very Man", or a God-Man, and that every human person is created in His image. Describing the universe similar to a hologram where the part is present in the whole, Swedenborg stated that "all created things in a certain image have relation to man." Moreover, he was given a grand vision of heaven, where heaven taken together forms one complete man. As for the purpose of creation, he states, "the end of creation...is that all things may return to the creator, and that there may be conjunction." This conjunction is effected by God's love which flows into a person's will, and His truth which flows into a person's understanding.

This is volume 24 of the multi-volume work, The Divine Revelation of the New Jerusalem, and is also available in a 3 volume set entitled Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine.  This work also includes the volume, Interaction between the Soul and Body, where Swedenborg describes in detail the true nature of the soul which survives the death of the body. This work has been formatted for digital publication: it includes a hyperlinked table of contents, references, and footnotes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He journeyed to England, Holland, France, and Germany to study and work with leading scientists in western Europe. Upon his return he apprenticed as an engineer under the brilliant Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem (1661-1751). King Charles XII of Sweden gave him a salaried position as an overseer of Sweden's mining industry (1716-1747). After the death of the King, Emanuel was ennobled by Queen Ulrika Eleonora. This gave him a seat in the Swedish House of Nobles, where he remained an active participant in the Swedish government throughout his life. A member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, he devoted himself to scientific studies and philosophical reflections that culminated in a number of scientific publications, mainly concerning minerology and physiology, where he had made several discoveries. From 1743 to 1745 he entered a transitional phase that resulted in a shift of his main focus from science and philosophy to theology. Throughout the rest of his life he maintained that this shift was brought about by Jesus Christ, who appeared to him, called him to a new mission, and opened his perception to a permanent dual consciousness of this life and the spiritual world of heaven and hell. Although he at first published his theological works anonymously, he became more well known to the public when he had a clairvoyant experience where he could describe a fire in Stockholm in 1759, over 400 km away. This was investigated by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who confirmed the event, and it was also noted by Carl Jung who borrowed from Swedenborg for many of his ideas in psychology. At other times Swedenborg demonstrated his clairvoyant abilities to multiple witnesses, including John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Zen master D.T. Suzuki called Swedenborg the "Buddha of the North."