Emanuel Swedenborg

SOJ was attracted to the ritual of the Anglican service, and was confirmed as an Episcopalian, although when in South Berwick her family attended the Congregationalist church. However, the most profound religious influence on her...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

Having found she could live with Broad Church theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists...

ML accepted the spiritualist belief that there are levels of existence in the afterlife, or the Other Side, the lowest being the astral plane. One's plane on the Other Side, she maintained...

He belonged to the class of London shopkeepers and artisans known for hard work, sturdy financial effort, and independent opinions in religion and politics. William was a visionary from his childhood, someone who when he...

As to religion, LMC had a natural leaning towards piety, but disliked most of the Christian sects of which she had experience. She found the Unitarians too cold, the Swedenborgians (to whom early in her...

Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare .

KBG was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). John Bruce Glasier had...

Together, says Byatt, the stories make up one exploration of Victorian anxieties about what it was to be human.The Conjugial Angel (whose odd spelling of conjugal derives from Emanuel Swedenborg ) relates the story...

KR 's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud ianism, Wittgenstein 's and...

Tulk, her friend and mentor and a leading Swedenborg ian, had died the previous year. A second edition, expanded by C. Pooley

Apparently he later used mesmerism to soothe his wife after the birth of their son. He was also interested in the ideas of the eighteenth-century philosopher and seer Emanuel Swedenborg .

Fifty years later EF remembered being a unit of a circle where Faiths, Politics, Systems & Literature were constantly discussed—I, a mere listener among the Elite of those well qualified to be assailants & defenders....

MCH , who following her marriage published as Mary Hume-Rothery, wrote in a number of genres from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Her works include a biography, several collections of poems (many of which reflect her...

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , probably either translated or revised an earlier translation of philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg 's Heaven and Hell, with the new title The Future Life.