SWEDENBORG STUDIES

Title: Concerning an idea about place: Swedenborg's Summerhouse

Author: Stephen McNeilly

Drawing on a long-standing engagement with Swedenborg’s visionary writing, this beautifully designed pocketbook offers a lyrical exploration of Swedenborg's summerhouse and a philosophical meditation on the nature of place, memory. . .

Title: SWEDENBORG’S LUSTHUS

Author: CHLOE ARIDJIS, ANONYMOUS BOSCH, ARNE BIORNSTAD, DANIEL BIRNBAUM, HJALMAR GULLBERG, STEPHEN MCNEILLY, IAIN SINCLAIR, BRIDGET SMITH, EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, BEN WICKEY, KEN WORPOLE

Editor: STEPHEN MCNEILLY

Foreword: DEBORAH LEVY

Containing over 100 colour illustrations, with contributions from leading writers and artists, this major study of Swedenborg's summerhouse offers a unique exploration of the relationship between writing, place and the. . .

Title: MEDICINE, MYSTICISM AND MYTHOLOGY: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture

Author: Malcolm Peet

Foreword: Robert Rix

Malcolm Peet’s Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture explores the life and cultural milieu of the nineteenth-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), whose largely forgotten influence. . .

Title: DISTANT VOICES: Sketches of a Swedenborgian World View

Author: John S Haller, Jr

Foreword: Devin Zuber

The legacy of the Enlightenment philosopher, scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is vast, but still underappreciated. Swedenborg’s thought permeated 19th-century literature, art and social reform movements, and his work. . .

Title: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, MYSTICISM

Editor: Stephen McNeilly

The most comprehensive single contribution to date on Swedenborg’s influence on the History of Ideas. This volume contains a collection of essays by leading writers looking specifically at Swedenborg’s place. . .

Title: THE FIVE AGES: Swedenborg's View of Spiritual History

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg | commentary by PL Johnson

A new book by Swedenborg? Well not exactly, but this may be the nearest thing to it. Swedenborg died in 1772, aged 84, not long after having completed his extensive. . .

Title: GARDENS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

Author: Kristin King

Bringing a fresh perspective to the roles gardens have played in delighting and sustaining the human condition through the ages, Kristin King’s lyrical study of gardens in the life and. . .

Title: THE GRAND THEME: and other essays

Author: Anders Hallengren

The Grand Theme contains a rich collection of essays by Anders Hallengren, celebrated Swedish author and scholar, a Harvard alumnus, and former President of the Swedenborg Society.   table of contents. . .

Title: HEAVEN, HELL AND OTHER PLACES

Author: Presenter/writer: Philip Makatrewicz | Directors: Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan | Producer: Stephen McNeilly

Editor: Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan

Foreword: Gary Lachman

Produced by the Society’s Stephen McNeilly, written and presented by the novelist Philip Makatrewicz, and directed by the award winning filmmakers Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, this documentary explores the. . .

Title: IMAGINAL LANDSCAPES

Author: William Rowlandson

Foreword: Gary Lachman

In 1978 the great Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges described Swedenborg as the most extraordinary man in recorded history. In Imaginal Landscapes William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of this. . .