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Swedenborg’s philosophy
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg
    Emanuel Swedenborg
    / His theology

    …the light of the “correspondence” between the spiritual and the material planes. He viewed references in the Bible to mundane historical matters as symbolically communicated spiritual truths, the key to which he tried to find through detailed and voluminous commentaries and interpretations. Swedenborg died in London in 1772, where…

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    …the light of the “correspondence” between the spiritual and the material planes. He viewed references in the Bible to mundane historical matters as symbolically communicated spiritual truths, the key to which he tried to find through detailed and voluminous commentaries and interpretations. Swedenborg died in London in 1772, where…

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