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Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg died on this day in 1772. Considered one of the greatest mystics of all time, he accurately predicted the time and day of his death. Swedenborg also somehow knew of a fire that had broken out in Stockholm when he was at a dinner party hundreds of miles away. Swedenborg amazed the dinner guests as he spoke of the spread and eventual halt of the blaze, and when the news of it reached them a few days later, they discovered that he was correct.
Swedenborg's religion was based on the Bible and revelation, and he rejected sola fide (faith-alone) and the Trinity.
American pioneer and legend Johnny Appleseed was a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg and when not planting trees, he was spreading his Swedenborgian faith. Helen Keller was a Swedenborgian. William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jorge Luis Borges, and W. B. Yeats were all influenced by Swedenborgian ideas. The actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal hail from a prominent American Swedenborgian lineage. Dr. Oz has been influenced Swedenborg as well.
See also: The Mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg by Lewis Spence 1920
Emanuel Swedenborg on the Trinity Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg on the Name Jehovah
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