Ebook: Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell. Standard Edition

Pennsylvania: Swedenborg Foundation. 2009. — 581 p.
From Things Heard and Seen.
First published in London in 1758, Heaven and Hell has become Emanuel Swedenborg’s most popular work. In 66 brief chapters, this book contains descriptions of some of Swedenborg’s most startling spiritual revelations. These include actual descriptions of life after death, a declaration that the
final judgment foretold in the Bible did not predict the destruction of this earth (but that it had already taken place in the spiritual world), accounts involving married partners in heaven, and details about the work and character of angels.Emanuel Swedenborg ( born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher,theologian, revelator, and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell(1758). Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at age 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter weekend of 6 April 1744. This culminated in a 'spiritual awakening', in which he received revelation that he was appointed by the Lord to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity. According to The Heavenly Doctrine the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell and talk with angels, demons and other spirits; and the Last Judgment had already occurred, in 1757. For the remaining 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote eighteen published theological works, and several more which were unpublished. He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in True Christian Religion, a work he published himself. Some followers of The Heavenly Doctrine believe that, of his theological works, only those which Swedenborg published himself are fully divinely inspired.