Testimony to the Invisible: Essays on Swedenborg

Testimony to the Invisible: Essays on Swedenborg by LAWRENCE, JAMES. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780877851493.

This collection of essays highlights the influence of Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) on art, spirituality, and culture. Opening with an essay by Spanish-language writer and metaphysician Jorge Luis Borges, from which the collection draws its name, the volume includes a description of Swedenborgs influence on Fyodor Dosteovsky by Czleslaw Mloscz; a look at Swedenborg from a mystical perspective from Wilson Van Dusen; the transcendentalist connection with Ralph Waldo Emerson in an essay by Eugene Taylor; and Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzukis describes similarities between Swedenborgs philosophy and Buddhism. Essays by Kathleen Raine on Swedenborgs poetic influence and Colin Wilson on the psychological perspective on Swedenborgs visions round out the collection.