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Afterlife is an abridgement of Emanuel Swedenborg's best-selling, unsurpassed classic Heaven and Hell. It contains the essence of what Swedenborg disclosed on the realities of life after death and the very structure of the realms, which remain invisible to the living. Book jacket.

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The son of a Swedish Lutheran pastor, professor, and court chaplain, Emanuel Swedenborg first became a scientist and mining engineer. Of brilliant intellect and wide-ranging interests, he explored many areas of nature, doing pioneering work in several fields.

In 1743 he began to experience a series of visions of the spiritual world. Over subsequent years he maintained that he held conversations with angels, the departed, and even God, and that he had visited heaven and hell. Swedenborg penned a lengthy series of writings inspired by these encounters, based on the concept of a spiritual cosmos as model for the physical, an educative view of the afterlife, and the allegorical interpretation of Scripture.

In 1774 the small Church of the New Jerusalem was founded explicitly on the basis of his revelations. Swedenborg's influence has been much wider than its membership. His teachings entered American culture generally through the popularity of several of his books and his impact on Spiritualism and the New England Transcendentalists.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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This little book is in fact the third redaction of the Swedenborg Foundation's new translation of 18th-century scientist and mystic Swedenborg's beloved classic, Heaven and Hell, first published in Latin in the late 1750s and subsequently in most of the world's languages. Swedenborg's confident descriptions of the afterlife, based on his own visionary experiences, exerted an influence on thought in the West well out of proportion to the size of his following--both the James family and Jorge Luis Borges were ardent students of his work. Swedenborg's cosmology is entirely unlike that of any other Christian mystic, and this handy volume, based on a new translation, should provide an excellent introduction to this work of both spiritual and intellectual interest. Recommended. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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"I have not only been told how the awakening [from death] happens, I have been shown by firsthand experience. The actual experience happened to me so that I could have a full knowledge of how it occurs... "It seemed as though the angels rolled back a covering from my left eye toward the center of my nose so that my eye was opened and able to see. To the spirit, it seems as though this were actually happening, but it is only apparently so. As this covering seemed to be rolled back, I could see a kind of clear but dim light like the light we see through our eyelids when we are first waking up. It seemed to me as though this clear, dim light had a heavenly color to it, but I was later told that this varies. After that, it felt as though something were being rolled gently off my face, and once this was done I had access to spiritual thought. This rolling something off the face is an appearance, for it represents the fact that we are moving from natural thinking to spiritual thinking. Angels take the greatest care to shield the awakening person from any concept that does not taste of love. Then they tell the individual that he or she is a spirit." Excerpted from Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders by Emanuel Swedenborg All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Donald L. RoseEmanuel Swedenborg

Introduction	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Part 1 The World of Spirits and Our State after Death
What the World of Spirits Is	p. 3
Each of Us Is Inwardly a Spirit	p. 4
Our Revival from the Dead and Entry into Eternal Life	p. 5
After Death, We Are in a Complete Human Form	p. 9
After Death, We Enjoy Every Sense, Memory, Thought, and Affection We Had in the World	p. 12
Our Nature after Death Depends on the Kind of Life We Led in the World	p. 17
Our First State after Death	p. 21
Our Second State after Death	p. 25
Our Third State after Death Is a State of Instruction for People Who are Entering Heaven	p. 28
It Is Not So Hard to Lead a Heaven-Bound Life as People Think It Is	p. 31
Part 2 Heaven
The Heavens Are Made Up of Countless Communities	p. 41
Each Community Is a Heaven in Smaller Form and Each Angel a Heaven in Smallest Form	p. 43
The Whole Heaven Reflects a Single Individual	p. 44
Each Community in the Heavens Reflects a Single Individual	p. 46
Every Angel is in Perfect Human Form	p. 47
Owing to the Lord's Divine Human, in Its Entirety and Its Parts, Heaven Reflects a Person	p. 49
There is a Correspondence of Everything in Heaven with Everything in the Human Being	p. 52
There Is a Correspondence of Heaven with Everything Earthly	p. 54
The Sun in Heaven	p. 59
Light and Warmth in Heaven	p. 61
How the States of Angels in Heaven Change	p. 62
Time in Heaven	p. 64
The Clothes Angels Appear In	p. 67
Angels' Homes and Houses	p. 68
Space in Heaven	p. 69
Forms of Government in Heaven	p. 71
Divine Worship in Heaven	p. 73
The Power of Heaven's Angels	p. 74
The Language of Angels	p. 76
How Angels Talk with Us	p. 79
Written Materials in Heaven	p. 81
The Wisdom of Heaven's Angels	p. 84
The State of Innocence of Angels in Heaven	p. 86
The State of Peace in Heaven	p. 88
The Union of Heaven with the Human Race	p. 91
Heaven's Union with Us through the Word	p. 94
Heaven and Hell Come from the Human Race	p. 97
Non-Christians, or People Outside the Church, in Heaven	p. 98
Children in Heaven	p. 101
Marriages in Heaven	p. 105
What Angels Do in Heaven	p. 109
Heavenly Joy and Happiness	p. 112
The Vastness of Heaven	p. 119
Part 3 Hell
The Lord Governs the Hells	p. 125
The Lord Does Not Cast Anyone into Hell: Spirits Cast Themselves In	p. 126
All the People Who Are in the Hells Are Absorbed in Evils and Consequent Falsities because of Their Loves of Themselves and the World	p. 129
Hellfire and Gnashing of Teeth	p. 133
The Malice and Unspeakable Skills of Hellish Spirits	p. 136
The Appearance, Location, and Number of the Hells	p. 138
The Equilibrium between Heaven and Hell	p. 140

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