Tag: Emmanuel Swedenborg
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Polymaths and Self-Creation
A way stands open into heaven, but none can enter the way except those who have heaven within them. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg It is very difficult to become an expert in one field. To become expert in two or more fields is extraordinary. Such a person is called a polymath and several polymaths have always…
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The Soul after Death
Thoughts have a temporal component, since we think one thought after another, which can all be related sequentially. However, there is no “where”; i.e., one thought is not to the left of another, or across from it, etc. Yet, images in a dream do have a spatial aspect; in the dream, we “go places”, there…
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Man, Woman, and Self
For Adam, the Self is dead, represented by the rib since the bones are the last to decay. That rib is vivified by Eve, who appears therefore as the exteriorization of his own Self. She is almost his identical twin, genetically the same apart from her having two X chromosomes, his “reciprocal”. Hence, she is…