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    The Divine Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg

    Sep 25, 2018 4 minutes
    By Rick Hamlin, SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

    I was on my way to Stockholm for vacation. So I took a few good books with me to learn more about one of Sweden’s great mystics, Emanuel Swedenborg. Scientist, philosopher, engineer and seer. For all his encyclopedic commentary on the Bible and scientific insights years ahead of his time—the way the mind works, for instance—you can’t really escape the carefully documented instances of his visions. Just consider a few of them….

    On a Thursday in July 1759, Swedenborg was about 300 miles away from his home in Stockholm and having dinner with friends. Suddenly he turned pale, got up from the table and announced that a disastrous

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