The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . church in place of the former, is described in theRevelations, in the internal sense of that book, in which the newchurch is meant, as to its internals, by the new earth ; also by theNew Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven. We may add to this account, that in 1852 the Royal Academy ofSciences, of Stockholm, of which body Linneus and Berzelius wereJllumni, paid a high tribute of respect to the memory of foll
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . church in place of the former, is described in theRevelations, in the internal sense of that book, in which the newchurch is meant, as to its internals, by the new earth ; also by theNew Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven. We may add to this account, that in 1852 the Royal Academy ofSciences, of Stockholm, of which body Linneus and Berzelius wereJllumni, paid a high tribute of respect to the memory of following is an extract from the official account of the Festival ofthat year :— 1852. The Academy has this year caused the Annual medal to bestruck to the memory of the celebrated Swedenborg. It represents hislikeness on the obverse ; over it, his name ; under it, Nat. 1688 ; On the reverse a man in a dress reaching to the feet, with eyesunbandaged, standing before the temple of Isis, at whose base the god-dess is seen. Above it, Tantoque exultat Alumno ; beneath, miro NATURiE InVESTIGATORI SOCIO QUOND. .ZESTIMATISS AcAD. REG. SciENT. Svec. It is a leading doctrine of Baron Swedenborg in his explanation of the other books of Scripture, that one of the principal uses for which the word is given is, that it might be a medium of communication be- ween God and man; also that earth might thereby be conjoined with cjeaven, or human minds with angelic minds ; which is effected by the New Jerusalem Church, or Swedenborgians. 911 correspondences of natural things with spiritual, according to whichthe word is written; and that in order to its being divine, it could notbe written otherwise, that hence, in many parts of the letter, the wordis clothed with the appearance of truths accommodated to the appre-hensions of the simple and unlearned ; as when evil passions are attrib-uted to the Lord, and where it is said that, he withholdeth his mercyfrom man, forsakes him, ca
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