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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

Emanuel Swedenborg

Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason

by Ernst Benz · Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (trans.)

The English translation of the German church historian Ernst Benz's classic biography of Swedenborg, first published in German in 1948. It follows Swedenborg from natural scientist and mining official to visionary interpreter of the spiritual world.

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