Emanuel swedenborg

Jozef Laurent Dyckmans - "The Blind Beggar" 1851, oil on mahogany wood, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.

In the April 29 Netflix release Things Heard and Seen, a young professor and his wife (George and Catherine Claire) move from New York City to the Hudson Valley, where he has just landed a job at the fictional Saginaw College. George promptly runs into a professor who declares that he is a believer in Emanuel Swedenborg, one of a group of people in the area who follow Swedenborg’s teachings. But how much of what’s in the move reflects what Swedenborg actually wrote?

Number 9, 2011 This 1817 painting of Emanuel Swedenborg by noted Swedish portrait artist Carl Fredrik von Breda (1759–1818) was “rescued” from storage in 2003, cleaned by a conservator, and examined by an art historian. What was discovered in the process surprised everyone involved. (See below.) Th

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“No one is allowed to think and intend one way and speak and act another way in the spiritual world. . . . we must be outwardly what we are inwardly.” —Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell §498 To learn more about this idea, check out our Swedenborg & Life episode, "The World of Spirits" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaPwhzDHWM

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