About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a globally renowned writer, essayist, poet, and lecturer who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Heralded today as one of the greatest writers of North America, Emerson had a profound influence on subsequent US and European literature and philosophy. His key works include Nature (1836), The American Scholar (1837), and The Conduct of Life (1860). Swedenborg: Introducing the Mystic is taken from his 1850 classic Representative Men.

Stephen McNeilly is the director of the Swedenborg Society and series editor of the Journal of the Swedenborg Society and the Swedenborg Archiveimprint. For the Society he has published numerous volumes, including An Angel Speaks with Homero Aridjis and J. M. G. Le Clézio; Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: An Anthology of Essays with Czeslaw Milosz et al.; Swimming to Heaven: the Lost Rivers of London with Iain Sinclair; Blake’s London: The Topographic Sublime with Iain Sinclair; and Several Clouds Colliding with Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. He is also a visiting lecturer in art, philosophy and critical theory at several universities in the United Kingdom.