Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was an adviser to the Swedish king on engineering issues that had a “substantive meaning.” In folders it was the most serious calculations of the submarine and an airplane, not to mention such trifles as pneumatic gun.
So would serve him king Charles XII. But that’s quite realistic thinking scientist, universally recognized, even honorary Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, interested in the sublime items. He suggested, “that everything of the intangible plane has objective meaning. “But what exactly should he count on?
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Vague visions began that shocked him mentally and sincerely, he began to speak: “… As if the words come from the outside. However, I am fully conscious and wonder what that means? “A visions become clearer. “Some kind of spirit with which I can speak, takes me while walking to unknown places, then I finding myself in the same place. ”
He is increasingly interested in the otherworldly “sphere of being.” He like a scientist devotes many to his discourse on invisible reality, and in his condition, in which he can “reveal” himself old people. Many believed, however, that he could only imagine them, but still interested in his spiritual connection with the dead.
“Can he talk to anyone or just some?” “I can Talk to everyone you know personally. So it is with those whom I recognize by their writings. And also with all that I have about performance, for example, with heroes of unimaginable antiquity. ”
In Stockholm, the Dutch ambassador once died. After some The goldmaster presented the bill to the widow, however she it was extracted that the husband paid, but did not find a receipt. And Swedenborg learned from the deceased about secret shelves in the bureau where they were kept receipts. And similar stories that happened to him, for some time also, as it were, laid out for him on their shelves. And he is bold deepened his “walks” into that world.
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He was asked once, which of those present at the table will die first? “Olofson will be the first to die. Tomorrow at four.” Checked and Olofson did not fail. And his watch stopped at four. And in 1762 the year Peter III died, that day Swedenborg said: “Just killed the Russian emperor. ”
All of his thirty tomes talk about visiting the spiritual his world as an “inner man.” And although the first volume is “Heavenly secrets, as well as thoughts about them and experiments “(640 pages) sold in 1749 at the lowest price, all the same for the whole month three were sold instance.
Next, a certain Charlotte von Knobloch paid for the publication of the rest, her shocked revelations: “My eyes are arranged in such a way that the spirits can see through them what is happening in this world. “Must have the spirits looked so closely at von Knobloch that the last volume of “Heavenly secrets “already came out in 1756, but then comments followed folios, almost as many volumes!
And nowhere did he recognize until the impotence of scientific thought before transcendence. In that “pre-scientific” era of mind respect for heaven, whatever the heavens, his conversations were perceived as dangerous idle talk.
Nevertheless, he could talk with absent people. Modest Swedenborg did not consider himself the discoverer of this world and reminded that Count Picodella Mirandola already in the 15th century concludes that there is peace visible and invisible. And with all this, the scientist frantically praises reason, scientific rationality. It seemed to him like logic reasoning moves up some spiral so fast that even Mirandola was left behind.
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He, as if dwelling in two worlds, freely described the device other world. People there communicate with each other in their own way. inner, spiritual likeness, and not by the commonality of time or space. The scientist exclaims – that it is true! What is he not could invent all this, so self-evident.
Fiction and truth in the head of a Swedish scientist exploring the sacraments rational tricks, as if they were playing blind man’s glasses. He believed harmony algebra. Sure that it’s clarifying some true state of affairs, he was approaching heaven by “scientific research.” And something the boundless and beyond the definition suddenly seemed to acquire for a moment certainty, accessibility for his understanding.
Kant: “Direct knowledge of other worlds may be achieved only at the cost of refusing something from the mind, whose ideas – for the world here. ”
The scientific name of Swedenborg became the name of a madman. The mystic thinker “served science”, conducting experiments with completely incomprehensible. The idea of an afterlife was gaining almost sanity, only so far inaccessible for clues. Friends scientists laughed: “Emanuel, possessing almost a model of the alien, thereby, probably, can influence somewhat – first to heaven, and then to this world. ”
Swedenborg understood that any world, of course, is not air rifle, but countered: “For you, all this – suspense. And I was given to hear, to see other life as if in reality, and to comprehend. “Once he suddenly realized that he wasn’t breathing. “Instead of me, someone else breathed in me, who is everything repeated the ancient word “al-Aaraf”, meaning the area between the Earth and heaven. ”
The empty mindset of a partially obsessed? Or it will make up time, the kind of comprehension of everything is already the mind? Nothing is known. Though Einstein also suggested that “perhaps the 21st century will gradually become century of mysticism. ”
With this unknown and abide.
Maxim SIVERSKY
Time
