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Swedenborg's Proven Spiritualism

Did Emanuel Swedenborg likely have contact with otherworldly beings?

  • Yes: Swedenborg likely had contact with otherworldly beings.

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • No: Swedenborg likely had no contact with otherworldly beings.

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Total voters
    3

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
Emanuel Swedenborg was an 18th Century Swedish civil engineer, inventor, musician, scientist and theologian. Also, he was connected with the "Spirit "world that enabled him to perform some remarkable feats. On the 29th of July in the year of our Lord 1759, he attended a large dinner party gathering in Gothenberg, nearly 300 miles away from his home in Stockholm. At 6 p.m. that evening, he alerted several party attendees that there was a fire spreading then in Stockholm where one of his friend's home was just then burnt down by this fire which had also put his own home and manuscripts in peril of being destroyed. At 8 p.m. that evening, he reported the fire as being extinguished 3 doors away from his home. Three days later, news of this fire had reached Gothenberg via pony express from Stockholm. It was then confirmed that the fire had happened exactly as Swedenborg had described. When people asked Swedenborg how he could have known about this fire when it was in progress, he told them that Spirits told him about the fire.

The more that Swedenborg became involved with spiritualism, the more that was revealed to Swedenborg by "spirits".

During the following year in the spring of 1760, a Dutch ambassador's widow was assured by Swedenborg that her deceased husband's spirit would reveal to her the location of a receipt which showed a bill paid to a silversmith who'd falsely claimed that this bill was left unpaid. Eight days after this Dutch ambassador's widow had received spiritual comfort from Swedenborg, the widow of the Dutch ambassador had a dream which revealed the location of the receipt which showed her husband had indeed paid his bill owed to the silversmith.

During 1762 in Amersterdam, Swedenborg held a séance with many attendees to whom he provided an accurate and precise vision of Russian emperor Peter III's death, just moments after Russian emperor Peter III was indeed strangled to death in prison.

Emanuel Swedenborg was the first person to propose parts of the Nebular hypothesis, which may have been revealed to him by the "Spirit "World.

 

Jumi

Well-Known Member
I don't know much about him, except that he aimed to reform Christianity.
 

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
So. Who wrote about him?

The earliest source I found for the report, that of Swedenborg knowing what was happening on July 19th of 1759 in Stockholm while he was 300 miles away in Gothenburg, is from 1766; this is seven years after the reported event would have happened. The matter is mentioned, briefly, in the German book Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik [Dreams of a ghost-seer, explained by dreams of metaphysics] by Immanuel Kant.
 
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