Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Excerpt from Emanuel Swedenborg, Vol. 2 of 2: His Life and Writings The Scriptures dictated by God - The Text preserved in immaculate Perfection - Dr. Stanley on the Bible and the Koran - The simple but Divine Style of the Scriptures - To restore them to Human Reverence their Internal Sense is now made known-origin of the various Senses of the Word - The Literal Sense is the J ew's apprehension of the Divine Wisdom - The Literal Sense includes the Spiritual and Celestial Senses, wherefore the Word is in its fulness, holiness, and power in that Sense - Without Doctrine the Scriptures are unintelligible - True Doctrine must be drawn from the Literal Sense - How True Doctrine is to be discriminated Who can receive the Spiritual Sense - The Literal Sense a Guard against Profanation - Man is conjoined with Heaven by the Scriptures: proved by Experience - The Word in Heaven The Understanding of the Bible constitutes the Church Without the Scriptures there could be no knowledge of God, nor of Heaven or Hell - The Ancients derived their spiritual know ledge from Tradition - The Church by the Word is a centre of Light to all Nations - Why the Spiritual Sense was not made known before - Comments on Swedenborg's Doctrine - Why Jewish History was chosen as the vehicle for the Word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is an exposition of the internal or spiritual sense of the books of Genesis and Exodus, according to the law of correspondences. It unfolds the spiritual significance of the creation; of the stories of Adam and Eve, and of the deluge; of the lives of the patriarchs; of the captivity of the chosen people in Egypt and of their deliverance therefrom, and of their subsequent history; of the ritual of the Jewish religion, its sacrifices and observances:—and in general, traces the foreshadowing through both books of the incarnation and glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many passages from other parts of the Word are also fully explained. Relations of things heard and seen in the spiritual world are interspersed, explaining the process of dying, and of man's resuscitation and conscious entrance into the interior life; the nature of the soul; of heaven and heavenly joy;and of hell, its nature and its miseries. It also treats of the Grand Man, or the whole angelic heaven, and the correspondence of the societies therein with the different organs and senses of the body; the origin and correspondence of diseases; the spirits and inhabitants of the various planets, and of other earths in the starry heavens. All of which are related to a true understanding of the Divine Word. This is book #2 out of 12 and covers Genesis 10 - 17

Excerpt from Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg, Vol. 2: Collected, Translated, and Annotated; Part 1 IN offering to the public the concluding volume of the English translation of the Documents concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg, attention must be called to the unforeseen circumstance, that the materials for this volume have proved so extensive that it has become necessary to publish it in two parts, each of which is of the size of Volume I. As the pages in these two parts run on conse cutively, they have been entitled respectively Volume II, Part I, and Volume II, Part II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Swedenborg Library, Vol. 2: Heaven; Being the Substance of the Official Report of a Credible Eye-Witness, From the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg If it be true, then, that man continues to live as a spirit in the Spiritual world after the body dies, it seems not difficult nor unreasonable to believe that, within this outer vesture of decay is contained a spiritual and immortal body, endowed with senses of transcendent acuteness waiting to be opened. Nor does it seem less reasonable to expect that, in the progress of knowledge and the fuller unfolding of the grand capabilities of the human soul, some such disclosure of the great facts and laws of the spiritual world as that claimed to have been made through Swedenborg, would be vouchsafed unto mortals. And where among the sons of men shall we look for one better qualified than he to make this sublime disclosure? Or what explanation of the man ner of his intromission into the spiritual world can be conceived of, more rational or philosophical than the one he has himself given? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.