Miscellaneous Theological Works by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John Whitehead (2009).pdf

Miscellaneous

Theological

Works

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Translated from the Original Latin by

John Whitehead

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

This version was compiled from electronic files of the

Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as

further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of

this PDF document does not match that of the

corresponding printed volumes, and any page references

within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not

all of the numerical references herein are not to page

numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are

not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears

both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its

pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases.

This version has not been proofed against the original, and

occasional errors in conversion may remain. To purchase the

full set of the Redesigned Standard Edition of Emanuel

Swedenborg’s works, or the available volumes of the latest

translation (the New Century Edition of the Works of

Emanuel Swedenborg), contact the Swedenborg Foundation

at 1-800-355-3222, www.swedenborg.com , or 320 North

Church Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380.

Contents

Editor’s Preface

New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine

Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church

Interaction of Soul and Body

The White Horse

Appendix to the White Horse

Earths in the Universe

Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed

Continuation on the Last Judgment

MISCELLANEOUS THEOLOGICAL WORKS

Editor’s Preface

This volume, Miscellaneous Theological Works, comprising eight

of Swedenborg’s shorter published works, was first issued in 1913.

It was translated from the original Latin by John Whitehead. No

explanation was given in the first printing for the order in which

the texts appeared. However, because this order has become

familiar to many readers, it has been retained in this redesigned

edition.

The first work in this volume, New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly

Doctrine, was the fourth of five books published in 1758 by

Swedenborg. It was drawn largely from his Arcana Coelestia

(1749–1756). Its topics range from a treatise on good and truth to

a final one on ecclesiastical and civil government.

Next is the late work (1769) Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the

New Church. The title is somewhat misleading since it is primarily

a detailed comparison of the principal doctrines of Roman

Catholicism, Protestantism, and of the New Jerusalem Church, or

what Swedenborg here calls the faith of the new heaven and of the

new church. It also includes some narrative accounts of his other-

world experiences drawn from his Apocalypse Revealed (1766).

The third item, also published in 1769, is titled Interaction of

Soul and Body. It is subtitled, “which is believed to be either by

physical influx, or by spiritual influx, or by preestablished

harmony.” He attributes these theories, in turn, to Aristotle, René

Descartes, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.

This is followed by two short documents, White Horse (named

after the symbolic creature mentioned in chapter 19 of Revelation),

published in 1758, and what has been traditionally called the

Appendix to the Treatise on the White Horse. This latter text was not

actually published by Swedenborg but was a memorandum he

MISCELLANEOUS THEOLOGICAL WORKS

wrote to Thomas Hartley in 1769, a copy of which Hartley sent to

Dr. Husband Messiter (an early believer of the new theology and

later close friend and supporter of Swedenborg). This appendix was

first published in an English translation by Charles Augustus Tulk.

The theme of both papers is the spiritual sense of the Bible. The

earlier paper contains a list of books of the Bible that Swedenborg

says contain a continuous inner sense. This list also appears in

Arcana Coelestia, n. 10325, and New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly

Doctrine, n. 266.

The sixth entry in this volume is popularly called Earths in the

Universe (Swedenborg referred to it by that name several times in

Heaven and Hell ). Its full title is Earths in our solar system which are

called planets, and earths in the starry heavens and their inhabitants;

also the spirits and angels there, from things heard and seen . This may

well be Swedenborg’s most controversial work. In it he describes

talking with spirits from other planets in our solar system,

including the Earth’s moon.

The last two works are titled Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed

(1758) and Continuation on the Last Judgment and on the Spiritual

World (1763). The subtitle of the first book says that the last

judgment predicted in the book of Revelation occurred in the

spiritual world in the year 1757. The second text gives details about

the effect of this judgment at that time on several nationalities and

people of various religious affiliations.

Since most of the notes found in this volume are those of the

author, and since they often give immediately relevant information

about the text, the notes are all included as footnotes rather than

endnotes (as is also true of the redesigned edition of Heaven and

Hell ).

The text for this edition was electronically scanned from the

Foundation’s Standard Edition. This process has allowed the book

to be completely redesigned and set in a new and more readable

typeface. Certain stylistic changes have also been introduced. These

include modernized spelling and punctuation as well as substituting

new words for terms whose meanings have become obscure or have

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