Description: To peruse the pages of Secrets of Heaven is to make a spiritual journey with one of the most remarkable visionaries the Western world has ever produced. Emanuel Swedenborg guides us through Scripture, specifically through the verses of Genesis and Exodus. From deep within the Bible, he uncovers the hidden meaning of these books, revealing evidence, for example, of emotional and mental trials that Jesus underwent during his life on earth. He also reveals the mysteries of the afterlife and the angelic welcome and process of self-discovery that await us after we die. Translator Lisa Hyatt Cooper has produced a fresh and vibrant rendering of this spiritual classic. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University Of Amsterdam, provides an introduction that relates the work to the context of its times; and renowned Swedenborg scholar William Ross Woofenden supplies an overview of the work in the context of Swedenborg's other works. See item number 978-0-087785-486-9 for Secrets of Heaven in a deluxe hardcover! "With regard to Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven, there never was a time more pressing than now to understand that the internal spiritual meaning of the Christian Bible refers not to the special dispensation of one sect, but to the evolution of a higher spiritual consciousness within each individual." ---Eugene Taylor, Ph.D., director of the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Religion. Author Bio: Lisa Hyatt Cooper is translator of the fifteen-volume Secrets of Heaven for the Swedenborg Foundation's New Century Edition of Swedenborg. Her past publications include a series of short stories from Swedenborg translated for children and a Latin edition of his work Life on Other Planets. She contributed translations to Debates with Devils edited by Don Rose and was the main consultant for five of the twelve columes of John Elliott's translation of Arcana Caelestia, published by the Swedenborg Society in London.
Dr. Stuart Shotwell is an independent scholar and freelance editor. He holds a doctorate in Classical Philology and has over twenty years of experience in the publishing field. His work for the Swedenborg Foundation has included editing collateral texts and assisting with the publication of the thirty volumes of the Redesigned Standard Edition of Swedenborg's Works. While serving as managing editor of the New Century Edition, he has also been working on his own translation of and commentary on Swedenborg's prose poem Worship and Love of God.
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