Posthumous Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John Whitehead v1 (2009).pdf

Posthumous

Theological

Works

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Volume 1

Translated from the Original Latin by

John Whitehead

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

This version was compiled from electronic files of the

Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as

further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of

this PDF document does not match that of the

corresponding printed volumes, and any page references

within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not

all of the numerical references herein are not to page

numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are

not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears

both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its

pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases.

This version has not been proofed against the original, and

occasional errors in conversion may remain. To purchase the

full set of the Redesigned Standard Edition of Emanuel

Swedenborg’s works, or the available volumes of the latest

translation (the New Century Edition of the Works of

Emanuel Swedenborg), contact the Swedenborg Foundation

at 1-800-355-3222, www.swedenborg.com , or 320 North

Church Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380.

Contents

Editor’s Preface

Translator’s Preface

Autobiographical Letters of Emanuel Swedenborg

Coronis or Appendix to True Christian Religion

The Consummation of the Age, the Lord’s Second

Coming, and the New Church

Invitation to the New Church

Additions to True Christian Religion

Canons of the New Church

The Doctrine of Charity

Sketch of Ecclesiastical History of the New Church

Concerning the Sacred Scripture or the Word of the Lord

from Experience (De Verbo)

Index to the Word of the Lord from Experience

Last Judgment (Posthumous)

POSTHUMOUS THEOLOGICAL WORKS

Editor’s Preface

This first volume of Swedenborg’s Posthumous Theological Works,

along with volume 2, was first published in 1914. At that time

John Whitehead, the editor and translator of the two-volume set,

called attention in his preface to several situations that have since

changed; for instance that the full text of the marginal notes to

Swedenborg’s Schmidt’s Latin Bible (1696) was not available for

use in his edition.

This latter omission was taken care of in another way in 1917

when The Schmidius Marginalia together with the Expository

Material of the Index Biblicus of Swedenborg, translated and edited

by E. E. Iungerich, was published by the Academy of the New

Church.

In this present edition of volume 1, the several minor works

Whitehead had (for some unknown reason) appended to Last

Judgment (Posthumous) as well as the extracts from Swedenborg’s

correspondence and the brief treatise Gad and Asher have been

moved to volume 2. This was done to avoid confusion and also in

order to make the two volumes more nearly the same size, as two of

the extensive editorial word indexes, the brief bibliography of

Swedenborg’s works, and the index of Swedenborg’s works

published by the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing

Society have been omitted, being neither accurate nor relevant to

today’s reader.

William Ross Woofenden

Sharon, Massachusetts

POSTHUMOUS THEOLOGICAL WORKS

Translator’s Preface

These volumes of posthumous theological works of Swedenborg

include a number of smaller works, which have never before been

brought together in a form convenient for use. Most of them have

been published in book or pamphlet form. Some have appeared

only in magazines, notably Last Judgment (Posthumous). A few

minor parts have not previously been translated into English.

Included are a number of extracts from Swedenborg’s

correspondence. Among these are two autobiographical letters of

Swedenborg which are prefixed to this volume. Those at the end of

the second volume are taken from Documents concerning

Swedenborg, collected, edited, and translated by Rudolph L. Tafel.

The originals of these documents are not at present available for use

in revising the translation. Most of them are in the Library of the

Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. We have used the translation

made by Dr. Tafel. These theological extracts throw much light on

several important doctrines. They have been classified and arranged

according to the subjects.

Arrangements are now [1914] being made for copying all the

original documents concerning Swedenborg, including many new

documents which have recently been discovered by Mr. Alfred H.

Stroh during his work of phototyping the manuscripts of

Swedenborg and his investigations of Swedenborgiana in Sweden

and other countries. When this copying is completed, it will be

possible to revise Dr. Tafel’s translation of the documents by

comparison with the originals. More material of a theological

character may also be found in these new documents which can be

incorporated in future editions of these volumes of posthumous

theological works. Any suggestions looking toward rendering the

same complete, including the perfecting of the text and translation,

will be welcomed by the publishers.

In the arrangement of the treatises, those of a similar nature have

been brought together. Many of them are fragmentary, never

having been completed by Swedenborg, notably Coronis and the

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