Emanuel Swedenborg's system of correspondences is one of the most influential theories in the history of ideas. Instrumental in the rise of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism, and cited as key to the work of Goethe, R.W. Emerson, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, to name but a few, it offers to poets, artists, writers and composers a blueprint for navigating the gap between the material world and non-material values. In this brief introduction, Gary Lachman gives an accessible overview of the many fascinating ways in which Swedenborg's idea has impacted upon the past 250 years.

"One of a collection of seven lectures first published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1850, entitled Representative men." (Inside back cover.).

In this volume are writings from the 18th-century Swedish scientist and visionary (1688-1771) whose works are among the most influential in the Western esoteric tradition.

"Filmed on location in Stockholm, Uppsala and London this new documentary is a perfect introduction to the man Jorge Luis Borges described as 'the most extraordinary man in recorded history'" (container).