Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish freemason, kabbalist and scientist who in 1741 developed his 'Heavenly Doctrine', similar to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, based on apocalyptic predictions in the Book of Revelation. His father Jesper Swedenborg was professor of theology at Uppsala University. He lived in the house of Erik Benzilius the Younger, a priest who played a role in the Swedish Enlightenment. |
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He influenced William Blake, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Johnny Appleseed, Jorge Luis Borges, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith (Mormon Church), Immanuel Kant (Enlightenment, friend of Moses Mendelssohn), AC Doyle (member of Crowley's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), Buddhist DT Suzuki, August Strindberg, Carl XIII (son of Frederick the Great's sister), Carl Jung, WB Yeats,..
Nicolaus Zinzendorf visited Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Highs and Samuel Crompton, who played a role in the Industrial Revolution, were members of a Swedenborgian cult.
Emerson's friend Henry James Sr was the father of psychologist William James (Theosophical Society, American Society for Psychical Reasearch), teacher at Harvard of Gertrude Stein, George Santayana, WEB Dubois (NAACP), Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann.
Leonard Gyllenhaal was a Swedenborgian, whose grandchildren are Jake Gyllenhaal (pushed the gay agenda in Brokeback Mountain) and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Ernest Benz (member of the Sturmabteilung) wrote Emanuel Swedenborg Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason, translated by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.
Marsha Keith Schuchard wrote Emanuel Swedenborg Secret Agent in Heaven and on Earth.
born 2/8/1688.
died 3/29/1772.