EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6491, 10 April 1908, Page 5

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

REMAINS REMOVED. By TClegsaph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, April 8. The remains of Emanuel Swedenborg, the founder of the Swedonborgians, have been removed from Stepney, and placed .aboard a Swedish frigate for conveyance to Kariskrona.

Emanuel Swedenborg was tbe son of a Lutheran Bishop of Sweden, and was born at' Stockholm in 1683. He died in London in 1772. He was a student at several univarsities and nn extensive traveller throughout all the principal countries of Europe. Until he was fifty years old he had written nothing on- religions subjects and apparently given them no attention. io was principally known in his own country as Assessor Extraordinary of the Board of Mines' and an influential room-' ber of the Bwodtsh Diets and not only there, but throughout Europe, as a writer on many branches of science and philosophy. In this field he acquired great distinction. It was about the year 174 s that he entered upon those remarkable experiences by which, M he affirmed, the secrets of tbe other world were revealed to him. Ho declared that the eyee of his spirit were opened and that he had, from that time forward, conscious dally Intercourse with spirits and angels. His general leaching on tills subject was that the spiritual world was an inner sphere of being—not material, and in no wise discernible to natural senses, yet none the less real and substantial—and that it was the ever-present medium of life to man and nature.