The Secret of Swedenborg

Henry James

AMS Press, 1869 - 243 pages

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hence has no recognition of a deity outside of the conditions of human	20

A closer exposition of Swedenborgs doctrine of creation The law	31

Swedenborg not properly chargeable with pantheistic or idealist tendencies	38

Creator and creature subjectively opposed the one possessing all fulness	47

Heaven and hell as contrasted issues of human destiny totally unintelligible	64

Method of the divine revelation very gradual beginning with the family	71

The purely negative office of the church in history illustrated and argued	79

Nature and history of no account in themselves or on independent grounds	85

Fundamental discrepancy between Messrs Mansel and Mill for example	123

Further exposition of Swedenborgs doctrine of nature Creation subservient	127

The homo and the vir The one unconscious the other conscious	135

CHAPTER X	142

Further exposition of conscience It masks the actual divine presence itself	157

The authors intellectual experience before and after his acquaintance with	170

Superiority of the objective to the subjective element in existence	180

The sole philosophic function of nature to furnish a logical background	191

Transition from the ritnal to the real church How effected Elements	100

No miracle possible on Swedenborgs principles provided miracle involves a vio	111

transacting in the realm of mind Nature to Swedenborg has	120

APPENDIX	207

Postscript 239243	239

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absolute according to Swedenborg accordingly affection and thought altogether animal Apocalypse Explained appear avouch become bosom Celestia Christ church claim conceive concubinage conscience consequently constitute contingent contrary crea created nature creation spiritually creative love creative source creator and creature creature's divine name divine natural humanity doctrine earth element in consciousness essen essentially eternal evil exclusively existence fact faith fellowship freedom gives God's heaven and hell hence homo human nature ically identity individual infinitude instinct intel intellectual intelligence inwardly jective last judgment latter literal living man's Mansel marriage means mind mineral moral nature and history necessity never objective ontological outward pantheism perfection phenomenal philosophy physical purely race rational reality realm regard relation religious revelation sciousness selfhood sense sensible sensuous simply social society soul specific spiritual creation spiritual evolution strictly subjective substance Sweden things tion true truth uncon unconscious universal utterly vegetable viscera whatsoever wholly words

À propos de l'auteur (1869)

Henry James was born the son of a religious philosopher in New York City in 1843. His famous works include The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, Daisy Miller, and The Turn of the Screw. He died in London in 1916, and is buried in the family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Titre	The Secret of Swedenborg Volume 7 de Selected works of Henry James, Sr, Henry James Volume 7 de Selections, Henry James Volume 7 de Works, Henry James
Auteur	Henry James
Édition	réimprimée
Éditeur	AMS Press, 1869
Original provenant de	l'Université du Michigan
Numérisé	16 juil. 2009
ISBN	0404100872, 9780404100872
Longueur	243 pages

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