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Emanuel Swedenborg

noun

Swedish theologian (1688-1772). Synonyms: Emanuel Svedberg, Svedberg, Swedenborg.

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... disappointment in love, but there is no proof that he had ever suffered this. What is certain is that he was a man of beautiful qualities of heart and mind, who could at times be divinely eloquent about the work he had chosen to do in this world. He was a believer in the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg; he carried books of that doctrine in his bosom, and constantly read them, or shared them with those who cared to know it, even to tearing a volume in two. If his belief was true and we are in this world surrounded by spirits, evil or good, which our ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

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... recognized in his ways and phrases echoes from the meetings and influences of her youth. But, in reality, he was self-taught and self-formed, on the lines of an Evangelical tradition, which had owed something, a couple of generations back, among his Danish forebears, to the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg. This tradition had not only been conveyed to him by a beloved and saintly mother; it had been appropriated by the man's inmost forces. What he believed in, with all mystics, was prayer—an intimate and ineffable communion between the heart and God. Lying ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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Words linked to "Emanuel Swedenborg" : theologian, theologizer, theologist, Swedenborg, theologiser