CHAPTER XII
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
While the Swedenborgians, as a religious sect, are not numerically
sufficient to be reckoned among the world's great religions, it is yet a
fact that the followers of the great Swedish seer and scientist hold a
prominent place among the innumerable sects which the beginning of this
century finds flourishing.
Swedenborg was born in Stockholm, in January, 1688, and lived to the
advanced age of eighty-four years.
Swedenborg was well born; he was the son of a bishop of the Swedish church,
and during his lifetime held many positions of honor. He was a friend and
adviser of the king, and his expert knowledge of mining engineering gave
him a place among the scientists of his age.
He was a voluminous writer, his early work being confined to the phases of
materialistic science, notably on mines and metals, and later upon man, in
his physiological aspect.
His "De Cerebro and Psychologia Rationales," published in his fifty-seventh
year, showed a different Swedenborg from the one to whom his colleagues
were accustomed to refer with much respect.
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