Swedenborg, Emanuel

Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg

Name	Swedenborg, Emanuel Gender: M
born on	8 February 1689 at 06:48 (= 06:48 AM )
Place	Stockholm, Sweden, 59n20, 18e03
Timezone	LMT m18e03 (is local mean time)
Data source	Date in question Rodden Rating XX Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	20°15' 04°23 Asc. 14°59'

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Biography

Swedish writer and educator, brilliant and eclectic student of fields that ranged from physics and astronomy to the Bible, seeking to find a Key to Everything.

The son of a Swedish royal chaplain, Swedenborg spent 30 years working on the Board of Mines, from 1716. With his scholarly private interests, he established Sweden's first scientific journal and anticipated a number of modern inventions, including prototype submarines and aeroplanes. He also published treatises on cosmology, lunar measurements, chemistry, physics, the circulations of the blood and sensory perception, and developed a theory of atomic structure with anticipates our own by describing matter as a system of indefinitely divisible particles grouped in swirling vortices.

In his search to locate the human soul and prove its immortality, Swedenborg was granted transcendent religious experiences which began in 1743. The following year Jesus appeared to him again with a commission to present a new revelation based on the premise that Heaven and Hell are not places, but states of being. He wrote a series of 30 volumes describing Heaven and Hell and the New Jerusalem. His visions were frequent and he himself visited heaven and hell, conversing with angels and spirits, and even with God Himself. His basic conclusion was that the universe is a harmonious whole temporarily disturbed by sin, (equated with error.)

Swedenborg died 3/29/1772, London, England.

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Events

• Misc. : Mystical Experience 1745 (Transcendent religious experience)

• Work : New Career 1716 (Board of Mines)

• Death, Cause unspecified 29 March 1772 (Age 84)

Source Notes

Maggie Meister sends a copy of his own letter, taken from his Preface to the "World of Spirits," giving the data, "I was born at Stockholm, in the year of our Lord 1689, January 29, the son of Jesper Swedberg." However, on p.825 of the article, his horoscope is described, "Upon the ascendant we find fifteen degrees of the tropical sign Capricorn. Four planets are dignified, Saturn, Moon, Mercury and Mars, with Jupiter on the Ascendant." This is a description of a chart for February 8, 1688 NS, 6:39 AM MET, not the 1689 chart as given by Swedenborg himself. One testimony or the other is in error.

(Leo in MA 4/1892 gives February 8, 1688, 5:30 AM, Stockholm. Penfield Collection quotes Notable Nativities No.023 for 6:00 AM LMT. 1/29/1688 OS, same date in Britannica.)

LMR notes that Sweden began the Gregorian calendar in 1753, so it was definitely Julian when Swedenborg was born. What is not known is whether Sweden was on the Annunciation calendar with the year beginning on March 25th. If so, the year would be notated as 1688/89 and by modern calculations, 1689. The date conversion for Julian to Gregorian is plus 10 days: ergo, January 29, 1688/89 may be converted to February 8, 1689 NS. A time of 6:48 AM LMT gives us 15 Capricorn rising.

Agneta Borstein writes, 4/2002, "My sister’s boyfriend is a distant relative to Swedenborg and he informed us that he has a book in his library that records Swedenborg’s birth as January 29, 1688. Swedenborg was the son of a priest and the Church kept all records carefully."

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind

• Notable : Book Collection : American Book

• Vocation : Writers : Metaphysics/ Parapsychology (A new revelation)

• Vocation : Occult Fields : Divination/ Prophecy (Remarkable visionary)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Mystical experience