I have no idea how I never discovered Swedenborg before now! Fascinating and appealing to every interest and Instinct I've ever had. Thank you for the great videos 😌
Helen Tucker I grew up in the new church and started questioning everything when I got to high school. Sure religion gives hope to people when faced with the horror of life but it’s all nonsense written by primitive people.
Thank you so much for all more ideas about life after death coz I'm so sad of my loving husband died. Thanks god for everything happen so I can face tomorrow for gods will. Amen...
For those of us who have mingled in the light of unconditional love we live the instinct of love in a divine way for those minutes or seconds. We sense the presence of Jesus. We see in the deeds of Jesus serving others and asking nothing in return, and judging nobody he healed. We realise the same instinct that all people desire to be loved. Swedenborg is saying exactly what is in the message Jesus brought for all Mankind to share. There are many accounts that share similar divine moments now as technology enables it to be shared. People always have had divine moments but had no way to share it with others. This is why many lifelong 'bad' people discover the presence of God and His truth in times of adversity and change their ways. Their old 'friends' tend to ridicule them forever afterwards. 'Swedenborg had a platform of authority and respect already in his community. That made it possible for him to share.
Thank you Swedenborg foundation for bringing us such enriching content for our minds and souls as we progress on our earthly journeys during our lives. NDErs agree that the afterlife is way more real than being here on planet earth is. Also that children do grow older in heaven and adults are in their prime again, around 30 years old. They agree that LOVE is the essence of All. 💖
My heart speaks that he will be the illumined Messenger of the 21st Century and am so grateful to you and Curtis for putting forth his inspirational messages.
I can't thank you enough for making swedenborgs works freely available. Reading Swedenborg is a breath of fresh air. It's reignited my faith in a way I never expected.
Thank you so much offTheLeftEye for recommending this video as a means to firstly get to know who exactly Swedenborg was, and his unique perspective on Spirituality and the afterlife. God Bless You!!
I'm glad you liked the content! This video was made years ago, and unfortunately we can't edit the sound at this point. So sorry! There are subtitles that can be helpful with the overall sound turned down. We are more aware of the volume of music in our newer videos.
Recently I have discovered four people within my circle who have had near death experiences. I read up on the phenomenon and discovered the Penrose Hameroff theory of quantum consciousness. It fits well with Swedenborg's ideas. Penrose and Hameroff could turn out to be the Crick and Watson of the soul and help make the afterlife more accessible to everyone which I think would be good for the planet. You can find Hameroff on You Tube.
I heard about Swedenborg, his concept is very similar to James E. Padgett, and Howard Storm's account. To finally see a book freely distributed is awesome! Thank you!
He shares God and the message of Jesus with you. Church denominations tend to preach down at us. He does not. It is not his concept. We find God in service to others. As Jesus shows us. As He did. All of us who have had similar divine encounters have witnessed the unconditional love that Swedenborg talks about. When you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour and the Holy Spirit as your teacher then the research begins through prayer. And you discover your own reborn relationship with the divine nature of God. John 16...12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
The Mormon leader Joseph Smith expressed ideas of the afterlife very much in line with Swedenborg's own experiences, just something I found interesting.
Tin Man, I'm interested in what you say here and would like to hear more about it. Can you direct me to some resources? If possible, something very small at first so I can decide if I want to look further.
www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.50-70?lang=eng#49 This comes from Doctrine and Covenants section 76, beginning in verse 49 it is a record of an experience both Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon claimed to have had in February 1832. It describes the three levels of heaven or "Three Degrees of Glory" as the doctrine is known today in Mormon teaching.
Tin Man, thanks again for sending the link. I read the bit you linked to. I've also read the Doctrine and Covenants in its entirety (years ago), and I've read a bit of Swedenborg (working on Heaven and Hell now), but I don't yet know either source well enough to see the connection you're making very clearly. Also, to be perfectly honest, I would need a bit of help before I could take Joseph Smith seriously enough to look into it myself. Perhaps you could lay the connection out a bit for me? And maybe you could also say something about the importance of the three-degrees-of-glory doctrine in contemporary Mormonism?
@ Tin man...Hey! With such experiences as these...we could start our own religion! Hmm... now all we've gotta do is compose and copy a book of religious history and doctrines.....
I definitely want to read "True Christianity". Swedenborgs insight is what I felt all along. .I was discouraged by tradition from accepting it. No more.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this video! Here is a website that provides Portuguese translations of Swedenborg's books: newchristianbiblestudy.org/swedenborg/?l=348
Good Sir, just a note and desire to discuss with you.. "it is finished" AND SO WE ARE PERFECT IN CHRIST? WHAT NOW? WELL A GR0UP OF PEOPLE .... ALL WOMEN ! ON A CYBER PLATFORM 'IN THE CLOUD' RECOGNIZED A SNOWFLAKE NEEDS THAT PARTICLE OF DUST.. (SUPPORT) OR NO GO.. ..
Wow, 54, never heard of this dude till I seen his work on one of my favorite NDE authors (Becki Hawkins) page. Anyone heard of SDE's? Caregiver for my elderly mother last 7 years of her life. Her last gift was the light. You will not believe the love, we don't really know what it is here in the physical, it's that strong. 2009 & 2010 it got so bad I prayed to die, just make it quick lol. How selfish could I have been.
Jonathan : fascinating as always . The Truth , as ever , seems to lie just beyond ourlimited horizon . Perhaps as it should be ?I'm struck by the similarities between Swedenborg and William Blake . Was Blakefamiliar with Swedenborg's writings I wonder .? Do you think they were fellow travellersif I may use that expression ? Naturally Blake was regarded as being " mad " albeit aharmless madman and a genius at the time.
Hello! Thanks for the comment. Yes, William Blake was familiar with Swedenborg and his writings. We have an article on our website that discusses his influence on Blake and other notable figures in history, if you'd like to check it out: swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/influence/
Many thanks Jonathan . I'm sure you are inundated with questions of this type . Having said that I intend to presume on your patience one more time : I'm sure you are familiar with the name and writings of Black Elk ? Were you struck by the parallels with Biblical iconography .? The coming of a Messiah / the idea of a Heaven and so on . Were those beliefs simply absorbed / adopted from Christian missionaries ? Filtered , unwittingly , through the well meaning Niemann . Or , do they rather reflect the Universality of Swedenborg's spiritual insight . I realise that this is perhaps a subject more suited to a PH D thesis but will be more than happy with the briefest of .answers. Very much obliged .
Hi, this is Karin this time, since Jonathan is mostly quite busy with translating and preparing for the show. I haven't read the writings of Black Elk, but they certainly could reflect the universality of the concepts. Swedenborg learned that there was what he called an "Ancient Word," long before the current Bible was written, that carried the same themes and predictions in different symbolic language. He learned that the symbolism, themes and stories from this "Ancient Word" then splintered off into various world mythologies, religions and spiritual traditions, so that would include Native American spirituality. And those themes could certainly also come through into visions of people over time, since the information ultimately comes from the spiritual realm. I think you're right: to really dig into all the comparisons might best be done in a PhD thesis!
So sorry! That sounds frustrating. Here is a link to find these books on our website. Does this work for you? swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/
Thanks for watching Christopher! If you want, you can check out the "About Emanuel Swedenborg" or the "Explore His Ideas" sections on www.swedenborg.com to learn more. Or click the book links at the end of this video to download free e-books to learn about the ideas in greater depth.
It's been claimed that Joseph Smith took several of his ideas about the Kingdoms of God from Swedenborg, Do you have information about JS stealing S's ideas?
Hi Robert! We have an online bookstore, where you can download e-books for free, or purchase print books. Check it out, if you're interested! swedenborg.com/bookstore/
Yes, it was a very new idea back in the 1700s that there are many paths to God, and that people walk a path to heaven through their own religious heritage, whatever that may be!
I will forgive you for not knowing this. It is written in the Stone Sumerian Text. At the time of the great flood-deluge, it tells that when the waters came, brought on by the polar ice caps shift, our ancestor's creator Lord Enki was in a submarine while this was going on over 200,000 years before the Bible came about even. The others were in spacecraft watching from above. A few made it to high land so here we are. Try the Lost books of Enki, Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish to name a few. They came way before this guy Swedenborg. The problem with this is, he was before modern day man found the tablets. So Swedenborg was going on his own experiences, which is what we all have, our own. IF you want proof of reincarnation I suggest you watch Alba Weiman's hypnosis sessions. She has over 200 and I have a couple of sessions of my own. I have an experience of a past life with a man now called Ryan Brown in this life that I can not have a relationship with. I know I need to do a video about it to educate people. How I found that guy and it lead to having 4 past lives with him and just knowing him in this one and the reason I can't be with him today. Once I understood why, it was alright to go on alone without him. Remember as the Higher Self beings or Watchers in the Bible say is 'Remember that it is the Spirit within you know, not the person Ryan Brown. It tells all the reason you connect to someone and for some reason that I have found out why, you can't have any contact with the person, their spirit knows. I put my sister under hypnosis. I asked her Higher Self to allow me to speak to Ryan's spirit. I found a connection a year before with this very young man 30 years younger than myself. So now I would get to the bottom of how I knew him. The spirit told me about 3 other lives I had with him. This life when we were 6, he died of Small pox or Polio. On the the other side he could not make a life plan with me as I wasn't there to agree to anything. It took me some time to realize that. He did make it where I could see major part of his life, his graduation from High School broad cast on the internet. I felt real excited by this, but still did not have him in my life. The feelings of the past are still there, but your memories are erased, only the spirit knows them. The human has a new mind each time. I believe that he set it up so I would know he was here. But he could not tell me physically. His mind did not know me. Only his spirit. I can't be in his life this time because I might interfere with his new life plan. Being we were very close in those past lives he would listen to me and not his self when deciding things that are in his present life plan. So Have to stay out of it this time. Anyway I need to do the video about it. 'Searching for Ryan Brown'. IF anyone is interested in this just keep watching for it. I am not well. I have fibromyalgia and can only work on things when I am well.
Yay! Finally, a Bible foundation thingy which doesn't give itself little supporting evidence! Thugh I was more fascinated on Swedenborg and his part played in this, envisioning an eternal world beyond this one, I still felt like saying "alright, alright, pause right there. how will the Muslims and many others feel about this? like atheists being greeted by angels...don't you think we should get all sides of the afterlife theories sussed out?"
We're so glad that you feel intrigued by the role Swedenborg has played, and the information he wrote about! I (Karin) have recently been talking with someone who considers himself a Swedenborgian Muslim, so though Swedenborg uses Christian terminology and the Bible, there is also plenty in his materials that relate well to the deeper concepts of many different world religions and spiritual philosophies. And Swedenborg saw good people from all different religions being guided to heaven. As for atheists, Swedenborg witnessed that it's a person's heart and intentions that determine what will happen for them after death. A person may rebel against the idea of God because they didn't like the particular concept they were taught. But if that person focuses and acts on goodness, integrity, compassion, and service, he or she is actually connecting with God, and will recognize the real God after death as the source of what has been important to them. It makes me think of the parable in Matthew 21:29-31. God is less concerned with the earthly beliefs that people declare, and more concerned with what they actually do with their lives. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21). We're here to offer Swedenborg's accounts into the greater conversation, and we hope each person will compare and contrast what he reports with other accounts of the afterlife. We want everyone to think over for themselves what makes sense, and what resonates!
I have not read any of his books or literature, what little I've heard heard here sound interesting but fear being indoctrinated with someone's interpretations of the BIBLE. I MUST ADMIT I DO HAVE PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING ALOT OF WHATS WRITTEN IN MY BIBLE (KING JAMES VERSION) THOUGH I PRAY OFTEN FOR GOD TO GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING IN STUDING GODS WORDS TO US. READING THE MOST IMPRTANT BOOK OF REVELATION ON THE SIGHNS HE WILL GIVE US THE OPENING OF THE SEALS BEFORE HIS RETURN I DO HAVE ALOT OF PROBLEMS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HIS EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE WILL SEE HEAR AND FEEL BEFORE HIS COMING. I KNOW ITS BEEN SAID I CAN REMEMBER BEING TOLD FROM THE TIME I WAS A YOUNG CHILD AND I AM NOW A 60 YR OLD WOMAN THAT GOD WAS COMING SOON, BUT I CANT HELP BUT FEEL WE ARE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF SEVEN YEAR PERIOD BEFORE GOD RETURNS.. this BELIEF doesnt scare me I look forward to his COMING for us. The only thing that scares me is family and dear friends that don't have belief or a Relationship with God.
I have read the first 3 books featured in this video. Swedenborg is an author that has to be read slowly; each paragraph requires some reflection and meditation before moving on... but the rewards are tremendous! Swedenborg illuminates the Bible like nobody else. You are led to discover the profound depths of spiritual truth contained within God's Word, enabling you to accurately perceive the sources of good and evil both within yourself and in the world around you. It is Christianity in it's deepest, most profound form.
@@migdez True Christian Religion is an absolute marvel. But the ultimate set is the five books called 'The Spiritual Diary.' These books are astounding, earth shaking, and so valuable as to be priceless. Via Con Dios amigo.
@dark side Because he was very critical of the catholic church, and he wasn't too happy with many other churches. His father was a Lutheran bishop, but he even criticized that church. He was right, but many don't want to hear the truth.
Thank you for spreading the works of Swedenborg, I live in Russia and studied his works, I believe that God has told us the truth through Swedenborg, is a completely new way of thinking, a new look at religion , this light and truth is the foundation of the New Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the these truths must know a lot of people, it will be like the first Christians to the Gospel !
@@Jeff4theRaid Yeshua told His disciples that there was much that He could tell them, but that they were not yet prepared to receive it. Swedenborg tells us many of those things now, to those who have begun to grasp the truth of biblical prophecy, and the essential message written in the Word. He tells us many arcana previously hidden.
Every human soul makes a contribution to our society in one way or another -- each leaves part of himself or herself, and when one of us goes to the trouble of documenting his or her studies, interests, experiences, understanding, wisdom, it makes sense that we might benefit to read what such people leave behind. It is one of the ways we accelerate and accentuate our learning experience.
I and many others are very grateful for all the work you and the others at the Swedenborg Foundation do to make the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg available to the world.
Swedenborg had a huge influence on Helen Keller and his writings were to bring much light and hope into Helen's dark and silent world as she had became both blind and deaf at the tender age of 19 months. Helen grew into a beautiful, well balanced and very caring lady who wrote over 12 books and who was to encourage many handicapped people to see their own self worth and their special relationship with an Eternal, Loving God.
@@freethinker8603 I've seen a TH-cam vid by a guy who thinks he has caught her out where she appears in an old film in which her communication method is demonstrated. In all likelihood it was actually acted out for the purpose of demonstration, as they tended to innocently do back in the 1950s, but this guy has gone to town about it and accuses Helen Keller of being a complete charlatan. What makes it embarrassing is that he has a friend with him on this vid who is nowhere near as sure that some skullduggary is afoot. I'm assuming that this vid is the one that's gone viral and has got a lot of people like yourself spouting a lot of rubbish.
It is largely because he was critical of the church. His father was the Bishop of Scara, the same bishop who was the head of the Lutheran Church in the USA, and Emmanuel pointed out their errors. Swedenborg called the catholic church a false church, and he also was forthright in his analysis of many denominations that were prominent at his time - the mid 1700's.
I. Have found the people of late have been led down a false road concerning the Catholic Church and most of our daily activities are too. The world has become. Led by faultshoods.. At age 87, I see big changes coming and it is very necessary.
no they are not complex. it's just that no powerful interests are sponsoring it. plus the elite want to promote a god of fear and control, either that or atheism.
Maybe under Divine Providence it has been given a low profile for its own protection. Swedenborg said it would definitely become big but it would take some time. He cited the first Christian church as an example of how long it could take, and that was 300 years while suffering a lot of persecution. He also said that the doctrines of the first Christian church would have to be removed from the minds of people before the ideas in his writings could be properly received there. This has only just, in these last few years, come about. All the young generations of people since the 1960's have declined to accept and commit to traditional Christian teachings and this means virtually all the older, traditionally Christian people from before that time are now dead. So, it's only now, for the first time, that Swedenborg's precondition for his writings to flourish has come into being. We may soon see his writings become widely accepted.
Well done, and much appreciated. And Jonathan, I really like the New Century editions. They're so much more readable. I first enjoyed Swedenborg in high school, fifty years ago...
I thank God for Swedenborg. His writings are a light on my path. When I first read his books I said to myself "this is the guy I've been looking for." Basically and what I think is his best doctrine says that in order to find happiness you have to have a use, function or purpose in this life for the health of your town, city, state,country or church. Also that life flows in, we don't live of ourselves.
This got me started watching Off the Left Eye. Strange how I had encountered Swedengborg's name so many times, but never really dived in. This well done video took me down the Rabbit Hole. Thanks, Jonathan, OTLE, God and Swedenborg!
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Swedenborg Foundation are you going to release more of Swedenborg's unabridged titles on audible?.. only one so far.. would be great to have a few more on there. if not all of them..
Hello jones! Sorry to just see this comment now. Yes, we do plan to release more Swedenborg audio books on Audible in the future. The process is complicated due to Audibles standards and requirements, and because of how long the audio recordings of the books are. But I think Divine Providence is almost ready, and should be up sometime in early 2017. We have True Christianity Vol 1. and Heaven and Hell also available as audio books on our website (www.swedenborg.com/bookstore/cds-dvds-audiobooks/) but they are not yet on Audible. Hope this helps!
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God choose His Chosen for a purpose. God’s Holy Spirit discern what is and what isn’t. I have been gifted through various ways along my journey. I know and also met people whom God has given much gifts. Some, who have experienced being in Heaven and also He’ll and brought back to minister and spread God’s mission.
Ultimately, all are of the very same Wholey Real One. Though the naming is different, the Buddha and the Christ are One...with surface differences reflecting differences in time and culture. These awakened ones likewise inform us that as we turn ever more inward, our own soul will ripen and mature to be as they...
thanks for this video!! all important things in a few minutes!! although....... the music in the backround makes it very hard for me to hear the words.... sorry....
Swedenborgs 'views' on God and the Word of of Jesus example and commandments are guided by the Holy Spirit, not a religious denomination. We all need to feel that energy of God. Journalists have been blinded to the many scriptures that have been cloned by political theories of Mankind, yet applied with ugliness instead of love. Communism for instance....19. 1 Corinthians 3:8 “Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.” and the Article 1 of Human Rights ... that took men 1948 to make a law of Earth. Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. …27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.…
There were 144,000 other souls that incarnated with the first perfect humans, we know as Adam and Eve. Swedenborg was certainly one of those souls to help rescue mankind, as Adam through many souls resolved in the soul known as Jesus, Eve as Mary, and now soon there will be a tremendous jump in humankind's spiritual evolution. This is what the Akashic Records tells us in its books.
You just can't possibly understand or maybe you can. But all my life I've waited for these revelations of Swedenborgs to confirm what I've known in my heart. But did not know of Swedenborgs works till three days ago. I am 60 yrs old. Finally the nature of God is revealed.
To people of "alternative" or "new age" faiths or whatever: "Swedenborgianism" is nothing if not Christianity. Swedenborg was, first and foremost, and very much so, a CHRISTIAN. It's not a "new" Christianity (although the movement is referred to as such), it's not a "different" Christianity, it's not a "secret" or "occult" Christianity or anything weird like that. It's CHRISTIANITY. To rabid, intolerant, close-minded "Christian" fundies: 'First and foremost, we need to know who the God of heaven is, since everything else depends on this. Throughout the whole of heaven, no one is acknowledged as God of heaven except THE LORD'. That's "Heaven and Hell", chapter 1, part 1, first sentence. "Midmost", "pivotal", and "extolled" enough for you?
Exactly! Well said man! When people say 'it's not Christianity its a new faith and you can't have new Christian faiths' are just hypercritical seeing as most of them would be Protestant which in the 15 century was new faith lol! Even Catholicism isn't the original form of Christianity, it was altered centuries later by the Romans to form Catholicism as we know. A lot of these people who comment have the same sectarian mindsets some had in the 16th century which lead to Catholics and protestants killing each other as heretics, and what exist's to this day in Ulster.
Of course, Y'shua is reputed to have said: 'Seek FIRST (i.e., make THIS quest the #1 life priority) the inner kingdom of heavenly consciousness --- i.e., seek to know the pure and all-pervading conscious Unicity Reality, and our true place in THIS...and subsequently all else shall fall into place, all else will be made clear.'
Thank you for bringing this message to the world. Swedenborg's teaching have change my life and the lives of many others. I see the teachings that the Lord blessed Swedenborg with working everyday. God is awesome.
Sorry to hear you feel that way! How good it is to know that neight God nor Jeshua told you that! Was it your local preacher or did you pick something out of the old storybook, the bible and form your own opinion that this is how it is with regards to any writings? You'll find you way....might take a few more incarnations sadly!
Sorry, that's God's fault...She wanted to make the educational journey a bit more challenging so as to weed out the immature and insincere along the way.
He sounds like an admirable intellect and even like a likable person, but all these elaborate theological and metaphysical claims are not supported by any evidence at all. A spiritual epiphany does not count as evidence because religious people all over the planet constantly experience spiritual epiphanies that contradict each other. High intelligence does not guarantee sanity of mind. Swedenborg's brain was almost certainly fried and so seem to be the brains of most commenters under this video after one takes a quick look. In addition to this, the willingness to defend a dogma to death - any dogma - is a clear lack of critical thinking. What one should do instead is keep an open and flexible mind. Reality is immensely difficult to understand. Humanity's understanding is progressing with baby steps.
@ Daes Facetus...your reply was a perfect reflection and commentary on the state of your own closed & mentally constipated state, and your lack of direct experience in the subtler realms awaiting beyond transcendence of the perception of ego separation.
I have only recently learned about this man through watching "off The left Eye" some of it is hard to understand but if I take my time things do become clearer. Thank you so much. From the UK. "
Thank you very much for this video. Could you please type where can we see other works of this man? like the ones you present at the start of the video.
***So appreciate all the work done by your team. I will help as often as a working nurse can afford. I seek to expand my heart & mind. Thank you for helping me accomplish this. My Lord lives in this. ✌️🌈✝️💖
Conjugal Love is a fascinating book. I'm reading the Chadwick translation. There is even a scene with a devil who sounds like the Grand Inquisitor from the Dostoevsky story. There are also descriptions of the sex act which I find fascinating coming from a man in his 80th decade. Emanuel Swedenborg must have been an experienced swordsman himself!
Emmanuel Swedenborg is the most important human in my life. I have learned so much from this man. It took me many years to read 'Arcana Coelestia', and it was like digging for diamonds in hard rock deep underground. But, after getting my first gem, the size of a golf ball, I have filled my little bucket to overflowing, not only with diamonds, but rubies, emeralds, sapphires and gems that I didn't even know existed. Now, I know that if I pick up my little pick, bucket and miners head lamp, I can go back into the mine, and get another truckload that I missed the first time. This is a very reassuring prospect. 'True Christian Religion' is a must read for anyone who loves the Lord, and every book that I have read by Emmanuel has been rewarding beyond words to tell. I believe he is a modern shaman, a spiritual discerner of great skill.
Your kind and uplifting message means a lot to us, Andy. We're grateful to have you in our online community, and look forward to meeting you someday, in this world or the next!
Off the left eye is the best channel that I have come across for Emanual Swedenborgian writings and who accepts people of all religions and beliefs without insulting us like other channels do. I love listening to the teachings of Emanual Swedenborg as it only enhances my spiritual belief and gives me more knowledge and things to think about. Thank you off the left eye ! 🙏
Who do you think he was as a Spirit? Just another gift from God as the Bible was for the time? At each of individual period of these two, what amazes me is the fact that people in those period were not geared to really understand, but smart enough to leave nice traces for us to find, or remember. You are also one of them by giving us the privilege of learning as new the so many infinity in the simple Word of God, thank you for permitting me to renew with God inside myself.
I personally think that Swedenborg was not anyone inherently special apart from perhaps being the most intelligent non-divine human being of all time (He's been mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records as being the person who perhaps had the highest IQ of all time). That the revelation given by God through him was supposed to be the ultimate explanation of Truth for Humanity, and that humanity had now reached its adult ability to understand everything to do with spirituality, would suggest it was now feasible that an sufficiently intelligent person of that time was capable of fully understanding and explaining it to others through his own natural intelligence. God would not now have to resort to using a human being purely as a instrument through which he would have to dictate his message, as in previous ages. Still, Swedenborg did say that God had to fill the person doing this job with his Spirit in order for it to happen. And this would mean, according to Swedenborg's own writings, that he would have had to have been personally regenerated. There's plenty in his Journal of Dreams and throughout his writings to suggest this was the case. So basically what I'm saying is that God explained the information to Swedenborg, and Swedenborg, who understood it both intellectually and spiritually, then passed it on.
Why isn't Swedenborg better known? He clearly describes the thousands and thousands of NDE's that people have been telling for years and are now being mass published? This is it. Swedenborg is a true prophet
Hi Jessica! This is a question that is asked a lot! We have a short video with our panel that discusses why Swedenborg isn't better known: th-cam.com/video/Hle_0cLbCJQ/w-d-xo.html
Hello.Im enjoying Arcana Coelestia books.Do you guys at the foundation believe all Swedenborg wrote ,for example about hell or do you assume there was some exagerations and methaphoric descriptions. thanks
I have no idea how I never discovered Swedenborg before now! Fascinating and appealing to every interest and Instinct I've ever had. Thank you for the great videos 😌
Thank you Helen! So glad you've found us, and that you're feeling that what Swedenborg learned is resonating with you!
Helen Tucker I grew up in the new church and started questioning everything when I got to high school. Sure religion gives hope to people when faced with the horror of life but it’s all nonsense written by primitive people.
Psychedelic Visionary Gee, what a shitty thing to say.
Thank you so much for all more ideas about life after death coz I'm so sad of my loving husband died. Thanks god for everything happen so I can face tomorrow for gods will. Amen...
For those of us who have mingled in the light of unconditional love we live the instinct of love in a divine way for those minutes or seconds. We sense the presence of Jesus. We see in the deeds of Jesus serving others and asking nothing in return, and judging nobody he healed. We realise the same instinct that all people desire to be loved.
Swedenborg is saying exactly what is in the message Jesus brought for all Mankind to share.
There are many accounts that share similar divine moments now as technology enables it to be shared. People always have had divine moments but had no way to share it with others. This is why many lifelong 'bad' people discover the presence of God and His truth in times of adversity and change their ways. Their old 'friends' tend to ridicule them forever afterwards.
'Swedenborg had a platform of authority and respect already in his community. That made it possible for him to share.
Thank you Swedenborg foundation for bringing us such enriching content for our minds and souls as we progress on our earthly journeys during our lives.
NDErs agree that the afterlife is way more real than being here on planet earth is. Also that children do grow older in heaven and adults are in their prime again, around 30 years old. They agree that LOVE is the essence of All. 💖
My heart speaks that he will be the illumined Messenger of the 21st Century and am so grateful to you and Curtis for putting forth his inspirational messages.
I can't thank you enough for making swedenborgs works freely available. Reading Swedenborg is a breath of fresh air. It's reignited my faith in a way I never expected.
Thank you so much for telling us Reece!
Wait you can read these free somewhere?
Thank you so much offTheLeftEye for recommending this video as a means to firstly get to know who exactly Swedenborg was, and his unique perspective on Spirituality and the afterlife. God Bless You!!
Wonderful overview of the life and major theological works of Swedenborg - thank you!
Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it
Oh, thank you. This was perfect. This is something I want to share.
Mama always said: "When you find something real true and good, share it quickly...so the truth and goodness can quickly spread to everybody!" 🤗
Love and wisdom
Why would anyone down vote this video? I swear there are some people that go looking for things to hate.
It resonates with them.
Wow,he sounds like a one of a kind AMAZING human being!
Aren't we all...once we become awakened by the germinating soul-seed of infinite ineffable innate Grace?
great summary -- but please could the music be turned down? it's really intrustive.
I'm glad you liked the content! This video was made years ago, and unfortunately we can't edit the sound at this point. So sorry! There are subtitles that can be helpful with the overall sound turned down. We are more aware of the volume of music in our newer videos.
Recently I have discovered four people within my circle who have had near death experiences. I read up on the phenomenon and discovered the Penrose Hameroff theory of quantum consciousness. It fits well with Swedenborg's ideas. Penrose and Hameroff could turn out to be the Crick and Watson of the soul and help make the afterlife more accessible to everyone which I think would be good for the planet. You can find Hameroff on You Tube.
I heard about Swedenborg, his concept is very similar to James E. Padgett, and Howard Storm's account. To finally see a book freely distributed is awesome! Thank you!
He shares God and the message of Jesus with you. Church denominations tend to preach down at us. He does not.
It is not his concept. We find God in service to others. As Jesus shows us. As He did.
All of us who have had similar divine encounters have witnessed the unconditional love that Swedenborg talks about.
When you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour and the Holy Spirit as your teacher then the research begins through prayer. And you discover your own reborn relationship with the divine nature of God.
John 16...12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
Sounds like an amazing man! Will need to check out those books
I send this video to lots of people. It's the Go-To for introducing Swedenborg.
Excellent presentation, Jonathan.
fascinating presentation - Swedenborg had an amazing impact on the Western World - especially theology.
I like Swedenborg he’s very interesting and eases my heart on the transitions on Life & Death So very much .
Thanks for posting this.
The Mormon leader Joseph Smith expressed ideas of the afterlife very much in line with Swedenborg's own experiences, just something I found interesting.
Tin Man, I'm interested in what you say here and would like to hear more about it. Can you direct me to some resources? If possible, something very small at first so I can decide if I want to look further.
www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.50-70?lang=eng#49
This comes from Doctrine and Covenants section 76, beginning in verse 49 it is a record of an experience both Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon claimed to have had in February 1832. It describes the three levels of heaven or "Three Degrees of Glory" as the doctrine is known today in Mormon teaching.
Thanks!
Tin Man, thanks again for sending the link. I read the bit you linked to. I've also read the Doctrine and Covenants in its entirety (years ago), and I've read a bit of Swedenborg (working on Heaven and Hell now), but I don't yet know either source well enough to see the connection you're making very clearly. Also, to be perfectly honest, I would need a bit of help before I could take Joseph Smith seriously enough to look into it myself. Perhaps you could lay the connection out a bit for me? And maybe you could also say something about the importance of the three-degrees-of-glory doctrine in contemporary Mormonism?
@ Tin man...Hey! With such experiences as these...we could start our own religion! Hmm... now all we've gotta do is compose and copy a book of religious history and doctrines.....
I love this!
Thanks Christina!
Very good biographic video with mister Rose.
I definitely want to read "True Christianity".
Swedenborgs insight is what I felt all along. .I was discouraged by tradition from accepting it. No more.
It is a remarkable book! I hope you enjoy it!
Adorei o vídeo! Sabem se tem as versões traduzidas para portugues dos livros?
I'm so glad you enjoyed this video! Here is a website that provides Portuguese translations of Swedenborg's books: newchristianbiblestudy.org/swedenborg/?l=348
Wonderful!
WOW..THANKS
Good Sir, just a note and desire to discuss with you.. "it is finished" AND SO WE ARE PERFECT IN CHRIST? WHAT NOW? WELL A GR0UP OF PEOPLE .... ALL WOMEN ! ON A CYBER PLATFORM 'IN THE CLOUD' RECOGNIZED A SNOWFLAKE NEEDS THAT PARTICLE OF DUST.. (SUPPORT) OR NO GO.. ..
The background music is so disturbing! Can't really listen to what you say!
I agree, way to loud
Wow, 54, never heard of this dude till I seen his work on one of my favorite NDE authors (Becki Hawkins) page. Anyone heard of SDE's? Caregiver for my elderly mother last 7 years of her life. Her last gift was the light. You will not believe the love, we don't really know what it is here in the physical, it's that strong. 2009 & 2010 it got so bad I prayed to die, just make it quick lol. How selfish could I have been.
LightWorker61 Simultaneous Death Experiences? Dr. Raymond Moody talked about those.
Jonathan : fascinating as always . The Truth , as ever , seems to lie just beyond ourlimited horizon . Perhaps as it should be ?I'm struck by the similarities between Swedenborg and William Blake . Was Blakefamiliar with Swedenborg's writings I wonder .? Do you think they were fellow travellersif I may use that expression ? Naturally Blake was regarded as being " mad " albeit aharmless madman and a genius at the time.
Hello! Thanks for the comment. Yes, William Blake was familiar with Swedenborg and his writings. We have an article on our website that discusses his influence on Blake and other notable figures in history, if you'd like to check it out: swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/influence/
Many thanks Jonathan . I'm sure you are
inundated with questions of this type .
Having said that I intend to presume on your patience one more time : I'm sure you are familiar with the name and writings of
Black Elk ? Were you struck by the parallels with Biblical iconography .?
The coming of a Messiah / the idea of a Heaven and so on . Were those beliefs
simply absorbed / adopted from Christian
missionaries ? Filtered , unwittingly , through the well meaning Niemann .
Or , do they rather reflect the Universality
of Swedenborg's spiritual insight .
I realise that this is perhaps a subject more suited to a PH D thesis but will be
more than happy with the briefest of .answers. Very much obliged .
Hi, this is Karin this time, since Jonathan is mostly quite busy with translating and preparing for the show. I haven't read the writings of Black Elk, but they certainly could reflect the universality of the concepts. Swedenborg learned that there was what he called an "Ancient Word," long before the current Bible was written, that carried the same themes and predictions in different symbolic language. He learned that the symbolism, themes and stories from this "Ancient Word" then splintered off into various world mythologies, religions and spiritual traditions, so that would include Native American spirituality. And those themes could certainly also come through into visions of people over time, since the information ultimately comes from the spiritual realm. I think you're right: to really dig into all the comparisons might best be done in a PhD thesis!
Yes - but why the loud intrusive bland musical wallpaper? Had to mute and turn on captions.
Oh good idea!
The music mix is too loud
Unfortunately none of the book links in the description work with Google Chrome. There's a safety error in the certificate.
So sorry! That sounds frustrating. Here is a link to find these books on our website. Does this work for you? swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/
@@SwedenborgFoundation Yes it does. Thank you. I have downloaded the one I wanted to start my initial contact with Swedenborg's work.
@@PedroOliveira-mt3rt Great! We are wishing you well as you begin this exploration.
I truly try to listen to these docu's. But can't you guys cut the annoying background music.
Lovely. I wish their was a better way to learn more.
Thanks for watching Christopher! If you want, you can check out the "About Emanuel Swedenborg" or the "Explore His Ideas" sections on www.swedenborg.com to learn more. Or click the book links at the end of this video to download free e-books to learn about the ideas in greater depth.
It's been claimed that Joseph Smith took several of his ideas about the Kingdoms of God from Swedenborg, Do you have information about JS stealing S's ideas?
How much do you want for a book.
Hi Robert! We have an online bookstore, where you can download e-books for free, or purchase print books. Check it out, if you're interested! swedenborg.com/bookstore/
Any thing on seeing double numbers ALL the time? All of my names have double letters.
I'm related to him
That's awesome! How are you related?
Swedenborg is one of the founding fathers of universalism.
Yes, it was a very new idea back in the 1700s that there are many paths to God, and that people walk a path to heaven through their own religious heritage, whatever that may be!
I will forgive you for not knowing this. It is written in the Stone Sumerian Text. At the time of the great flood-deluge, it tells that when the waters came, brought on by the polar ice caps shift, our ancestor's creator Lord Enki was in a submarine while this was going on over 200,000 years before the Bible came about even. The others were in spacecraft watching from above.
A few made it to high land so here we are. Try the Lost books of Enki, Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish to name a few. They came way before this guy Swedenborg. The problem with this is, he was before modern day man found the tablets. So Swedenborg was going on his own experiences, which is what we all have, our own.
IF you want proof of reincarnation I suggest you watch Alba Weiman's hypnosis sessions. She has over 200 and I have a couple of sessions of my own.
I have an experience of a past life with a man now called Ryan Brown in this life that I can not have a relationship with. I know I need to do a video about it to educate people. How I found that guy and it lead to having 4 past lives with him and just knowing him in this one and the reason I can't be with him today. Once I understood why, it was alright to go on alone without him.
Remember as the Higher Self beings or Watchers in the Bible say is 'Remember that it is the Spirit within you know, not the person Ryan Brown. It tells all the reason you connect to someone and for some reason that I have found out why, you can't have any contact with the person, their spirit knows.
I put my sister under hypnosis. I asked her Higher Self to allow me to speak to Ryan's spirit. I found a connection a year before with this very young man 30 years younger than myself. So now I would get to the bottom of how I knew him. The spirit told me about 3 other lives I had with him.
This life when we were 6, he died of Small pox or Polio. On the the other side he could not make a life plan with me as I wasn't there to agree to anything. It took me some time to realize that.
He did make it where I could see major part of his life, his graduation from High School broad cast on the internet. I felt real excited by this, but still did not have him in my life. The feelings of the past are still there, but your memories are erased, only the spirit knows them. The human has a new mind each time.
I believe that he set it up so I would know he was here. But he could not tell me physically. His mind did not know me. Only his spirit. I can't be in his life this time because I might interfere with his new life plan. Being we were very close in those past lives he would listen to me and not his self when deciding things that are in his present life plan. So Have to stay out of it this time.
Anyway I need to do the video about it. 'Searching for Ryan Brown'. IF anyone is interested in this just keep watching for it. I am not well. I have fibromyalgia and can only work on things when I am well.
Yay! Finally, a Bible foundation thingy which doesn't give itself little supporting evidence! Thugh I was more fascinated on Swedenborg and his part played in this, envisioning an eternal world beyond this one, I still felt like saying "alright, alright, pause right there. how will the Muslims and many others feel about this? like atheists being greeted by angels...don't you think we should get all sides of the afterlife theories sussed out?"
We're so glad that you feel intrigued by the role Swedenborg has played, and the information he wrote about!
I (Karin) have recently been talking with someone who considers himself a Swedenborgian Muslim, so though Swedenborg uses Christian terminology and the Bible, there is also plenty in his materials that relate well to the deeper concepts of many different world religions and spiritual philosophies. And Swedenborg saw good people from all different religions being guided to heaven. As for atheists, Swedenborg witnessed that it's a person's heart and intentions that determine what will happen for them after death. A person may rebel against the idea of God because they didn't like the particular concept they were taught. But if that person focuses and acts on goodness, integrity, compassion, and service, he or she is actually connecting with God, and will recognize the real God after death as the source of what has been important to them. It makes me think of the parable in Matthew 21:29-31. God is less concerned with the earthly beliefs that people declare, and more concerned with what they actually do with their lives. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).
We're here to offer Swedenborg's accounts into the greater conversation, and we hope each person will compare and contrast what he reports with other accounts of the afterlife. We want everyone to think over for themselves what makes sense, and what resonates!
I like the Neon Effect in the Church! haha
I have not read any of his books or literature, what little I've heard heard here sound interesting but fear being indoctrinated with someone's interpretations of the BIBLE. I MUST ADMIT I DO HAVE PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING ALOT OF WHATS WRITTEN IN MY BIBLE (KING JAMES VERSION) THOUGH I PRAY OFTEN FOR GOD TO GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING IN STUDING GODS WORDS TO US. READING THE MOST IMPRTANT BOOK OF REVELATION ON THE SIGHNS HE WILL GIVE US THE OPENING OF THE SEALS BEFORE HIS RETURN I DO HAVE ALOT OF PROBLEMS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HIS EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE WILL SEE HEAR AND FEEL BEFORE HIS COMING.
I KNOW ITS BEEN SAID I CAN REMEMBER BEING TOLD FROM THE TIME I WAS A YOUNG CHILD AND I AM NOW A 60 YR OLD WOMAN THAT GOD WAS COMING SOON, BUT I CANT HELP BUT FEEL WE ARE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF SEVEN YEAR PERIOD BEFORE GOD RETURNS.. this BELIEF doesnt scare me I look forward to his COMING for us. The only thing that scares me is family and dear friends that don't have belief or a Relationship with God.
Please, turn the music down. It distracts from the important things that you're saying.
He is burried here in my hometown. I live in Uppsala
Unfortunately, some collector has his head.
@@ghosty426 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences bought it back in 1978. Swedenborg lies intact and in peace in Uppsala Domkyrka.
@@ChihirotheShibaInu
Thank you for that update. May Swedenborg rest in Peace. He was truly a gifted man in many ways.
@@ghosty426 He is in good company with other geniuses such as Carl von Linné and Olof Rudbeck d.ä also being buried there
I've been there. 🙏
It was very special
I have read the first 3 books featured in this video. Swedenborg is an author that has to be read slowly; each paragraph requires some reflection and meditation before moving on... but the rewards are tremendous! Swedenborg illuminates the Bible like nobody else. You are led to discover the profound depths of spiritual truth contained within God's Word, enabling you to accurately perceive the sources of good and evil both within yourself and in the world around you. It is Christianity in it's deepest, most profound form.
Agreed. And well said!
Can you please suggest one of those three book titles to read first? Love and blessings from Mexico!
Heaven and Hell but all is wel ;)
@@migdez True Christian Religion is an absolute marvel. But the ultimate set is the five books called 'The Spiritual Diary.' These books are astounding, earth shaking, and so valuable as to be priceless. Via Con Dios amigo.
@dark side Because he was very critical of the catholic church, and he wasn't too happy with many other churches. His father was a Lutheran bishop, but he even criticized that church. He was right, but many don't want to hear the truth.
Thank you for spreading the works of Swedenborg, I live in Russia and studied his works, I believe that God has told us the truth through Swedenborg, is a completely new way of thinking, a new look at religion , this light and truth is the foundation of the New Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the these truths must know a lot of people, it will be like the first Christians to the Gospel !
vladimir volk I love this
It Answers a lot of questions that make sense and comprehensive breakdown, based on human nature and people in general.
i mean, the bible has knowledge in it, why not read the same thing he read and think about it too?
I totally agree with you Vladimir
Here Here Vladimir !
@@Jeff4theRaid Yeshua told His disciples that there was much that He could tell them, but that they were not yet prepared to receive it. Swedenborg tells us many of those things now, to those who have begun to grasp the truth of biblical prophecy, and the essential message written in the Word. He tells us many arcana previously hidden.
Every human soul makes a contribution to our society in one way or another -- each leaves part of himself or herself, and when one of us goes to the trouble of documenting his or her studies, interests, experiences, understanding, wisdom, it makes sense that we might benefit to read what such people leave behind. It is one of the ways we accelerate and accentuate our learning experience.
Yesss...standing on the shoulders of giants who have awakened to Truth/Unicity/Reality.
I and many others are very grateful for all the work you and the others at the Swedenborg Foundation do to make the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg available to the world.
Swedenborg had a huge influence on Helen Keller and his writings were to bring much light and hope into Helen's dark and silent world as she had became both blind and deaf at the tender age of 19 months. Helen grew into a beautiful, well balanced and very caring lady who wrote over 12 books and who was to encourage many handicapped people to see their own self worth and their special relationship with an Eternal, Loving God.
HK has always been a hero of mine and I recently discovered that she was a Luciferian which is somewhat troubling!
@@rigavitch You discovered she was a Luciferian? Where did you hear that?
@@waynekasmar4401 helen keller was a scam artist she wasnt deaf or blind
@@freethinker8603 I've seen a TH-cam vid by a guy who thinks he has caught her out where she appears in an old film in which her communication method is demonstrated. In all likelihood it was actually acted out for the purpose of demonstration, as they tended to innocently do back in the 1950s, but this guy has gone to town about it and accuses Helen Keller of being a complete charlatan. What makes it embarrassing is that he has a friend with him on this vid who is nowhere near as sure that some skullduggary is afoot. I'm assuming that this vid is the one that's gone viral and has got a lot of people like yourself spouting a lot of rubbish.
@@waynekasmar4401 no thats not the one
The Swedenborgian Church has always been small in numbers, maybe because these profound concepts are all just too complex for many people to grasp.
It is largely because he was critical of the church. His father was the Bishop of Scara, the same bishop who was the head of the Lutheran Church in the USA, and Emmanuel pointed out their errors. Swedenborg called the catholic church a false church, and he also was forthright in his analysis of many denominations that were prominent at his time - the mid 1700's.
I. Have found the people of late have been led down a false road concerning the Catholic Church and most of our daily activities are too. The world has become. Led by faultshoods.. At age 87, I see big changes coming and it is very necessary.
no they are not complex. it's just that no powerful interests are sponsoring it. plus the elite want to promote a god of fear and control, either that or atheism.
Perhaps these merely seem complex to western hierarchical religious programmed, materialism braintrashed, & TV-bamboozled/distracted mindsets.
Maybe under Divine Providence it has been given a low profile for its own protection. Swedenborg said it would definitely become big but it would take some time. He cited the first Christian church as an example of how long it could take, and that was 300 years while suffering a lot of persecution. He also said that the doctrines of the first Christian church would have to be removed from the minds of people before the ideas in his writings could be properly received there. This has only just, in these last few years, come about. All the young generations of people since the 1960's have declined to accept and commit to traditional Christian teachings and this means virtually all the older, traditionally Christian people from before that time are now dead. So, it's only now, for the first time, that Swedenborg's precondition for his writings to flourish has come into being. We may soon see his writings become widely accepted.
Well done, and much appreciated. And Jonathan, I really like the New Century editions. They're so much more readable. I first enjoyed Swedenborg in high school, fifty years ago...
Thanks so much Gregg!
I thank God for Swedenborg. His writings are a light on my path. When I first read his books I said to myself "this is the guy I've been looking for." Basically and what I think is his best doctrine says that in order to find happiness you have to have a use, function or purpose in this life for the health of your town, city, state,country or church. Also that life flows in, we don't live of ourselves.
This got me started watching Off the Left Eye. Strange how I had encountered Swedengborg's name so many times, but never really dived in. This well done video took me down the Rabbit Hole. Thanks, Jonathan, OTLE, God and Swedenborg!
im trying to absorb this intriging speaker ----BUT YOUR DAMNED MUSIC IS GIVING ME A HEADACHE. SWEEHENBORG WOULD NOT !
I'll read these book, then most likely spread the goodness that I find
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Swedenborg Foundation are you going to release more of Swedenborg's unabridged titles on audible?..
only one so far.. would be great to have a few more on there. if not all of them..
Hello jones! Sorry to just see this comment now. Yes, we do plan to release more Swedenborg audio books on Audible in the future. The process is complicated due to Audibles standards and requirements, and because of how long the audio recordings of the books are. But I think Divine Providence is almost ready, and should be up sometime in early 2017. We have True Christianity Vol 1. and Heaven and Hell also available as audio books on our website (www.swedenborg.com/bookstore/cds-dvds-audiobooks/) but they are not yet on Audible. Hope this helps!
Swedenborg Foundation love Swedenborgs books.
Thank you for this great work I never knew any things about Swedenborg and I pass his statue everyday in Stockholm Sweden
Thanks Cheyenne, so glad you enjoyed learning about Swedenborg! How neat that you pass by his statue everyday!
Background music is VERY distracting!
It's bloody awful
_Younger people care about background music because it’s control the mood and makes the video warm, the song choice could’ve been better, it’s was too aggressive for the mood of the commentary _
OHMYGAWD... I could not listen to this. The voice combined with the horrible music almost drove me mad!
Okay. I guess you'll change your name, then?
@@jeffreyturnbull4992 No need, by avoiding voices drowned out by clanking soundtracks I stay peaceful and happy,lol.
Couldn't think of anything better to share than this biography for Swedenborg's 335th birthday! Thank you, Dr. Jonathan Rose!
God choose His Chosen for a purpose. God’s Holy Spirit discern what is and what isn’t. I have been gifted through various ways along my journey. I know and also met people whom God has given much gifts. Some, who have experienced being in Heaven and also He’ll and brought back to minister and spread God’s mission.
Im from Macedonia 🇲🇰 and i think this man was awesome truly genies 👏👏
I cant understand how people can trust in Budha more than this man ..
Westerners only started trusting the Buddha in the 20th Century.
That is a very ignorant comment from you.
Ultimately, all are of the very same Wholey Real One. Though the naming is different, the Buddha and the Christ are One...with surface differences reflecting differences in time and culture.
These awakened ones likewise inform us that as we turn ever more inward, our own soul will ripen and mature to be as they...
Is there anyway to turn off the music that is so loud I find distracting and hard to hear the voice of the speaker?
Someone else suggested mute and put on subtitles
Unwatchable because of the loud, cheesy music. Great pity.
thanks for this video!! all important things in a few minutes!!
although....... the music in the backround makes it very hard for me to hear the words.... sorry....
Thank you dear Friends for sharing this work. I am so excited to read Swedenborg now.
You're most welcome! Enjoy your reading!
Which book will you be starting with?
Swedenborgs 'views' on God and the Word of of Jesus example and commandments are guided by the Holy Spirit, not a religious denomination. We all need to feel that energy of God. Journalists have been blinded to the many scriptures that have been cloned by political theories of Mankind, yet applied with ugliness instead of love. Communism for instance....19. 1 Corinthians 3:8 “Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.” and the Article 1 of Human Rights ... that took men 1948 to make a law of Earth. Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. …27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.…
Swedenborg is a gift of God to us
He’s full of shit.
Yes
Corben van Loosebeak:
WHO is FOS?
As each of us is a divine gift, seed, offspring, extension, reflection, projection of the pure wholey timeless omniconscious Unicity Reality Essence.
Very true he is a divine gift to us.
There were 144,000 other souls that incarnated with the first perfect humans, we know as Adam and Eve. Swedenborg was certainly one of those souls to help rescue mankind, as Adam through many souls resolved in the soul known as Jesus, Eve as Mary, and now soon there will be a tremendous jump in humankind's spiritual evolution. This is what the Akashic Records tells us in its books.
Yet time is a subjective projected illusion...so, don't hold your breath, but rather be present in THIS everherenow moment, eh?
Wow Swedenborg had lots of occupation thank God
I accedently stumbled across this. And I'm sure glad I did. Like winning the lottery.
This made us smile! Glad you found it!
You just can't possibly understand or maybe you can. But all my life I've waited for these revelations of Swedenborgs to confirm what I've known in my heart. But did not know of Swedenborgs works till three days ago. I am 60 yrs old. Finally the nature of God is revealed.
I wrote a song on Swedenborg called 'Mr Swedenborg'. Emanuel Swedenborg : Song & Video (Songs From The Howling Sea)
Fascinating individual
Pure genius+touched by God=Emanuel Swedenborg! I’ve always been good at math❤️
:)
To people of "alternative" or "new age" faiths or whatever: "Swedenborgianism" is nothing if not Christianity. Swedenborg was, first and foremost, and very much so, a CHRISTIAN. It's not a "new" Christianity (although the movement is referred to as such), it's not a "different" Christianity, it's not a "secret" or "occult" Christianity or anything weird like that. It's CHRISTIANITY.
To rabid, intolerant, close-minded "Christian" fundies: 'First and foremost, we need to know who the God of heaven is, since everything else depends on this. Throughout the whole of heaven, no one is acknowledged as God of heaven except THE LORD'. That's "Heaven and Hell", chapter 1, part 1, first sentence. "Midmost", "pivotal", and "extolled" enough for you?
Exactly! Well said man! When people say 'it's not Christianity its a new faith and you can't have new Christian faiths' are just hypercritical seeing as most of them would be Protestant which in the 15 century was new faith lol! Even Catholicism isn't the original form of Christianity, it was altered centuries later by the Romans to form Catholicism as we know. A lot of these people who comment have the same sectarian mindsets some had in the 16th century which lead to Catholics and protestants killing each other as heretics, and what exist's to this day in Ulster.
Of course, Y'shua is reputed to have said: 'Seek FIRST (i.e., make THIS quest the #1 life priority) the inner kingdom of heavenly consciousness --- i.e., seek to know the pure and all-pervading conscious Unicity Reality, and our true place in THIS...and subsequently all else shall fall into place, all else will be made clear.'
Genius through enlightenment.Those are gods messengers.😆😇💖
Thank you for bringing this message to the world. Swedenborg's teaching have change my life and the lives of many others. I see the teachings that the Lord blessed Swedenborg with working everyday. God is awesome.
Wonderful video! Thank you so much =)
Profoundly interesting, many thanks for sharing this video... 🙂🙏
Thank you for the kind words, Jules. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Sorry to hear you feel that way! How good it is to know that neight God nor Jeshua told you that! Was it your local preacher or did you pick something out of the old storybook, the bible and form your own opinion that this is how it is with regards to any writings? You'll find you way....might take a few more incarnations sadly!
My!...aren't we hoity-toity condescending fundamentalist?
Why is the music so loud? Don't you guys edit your videos before you publish them? I just stopped listening after a while.
Sorry, that's God's fault...She wanted to make the educational journey a bit more challenging so as to weed out the immature and insincere along the way.
He sounds like an admirable intellect and even like a likable person, but all these elaborate theological and metaphysical claims are not supported by any evidence at all. A spiritual epiphany does not count as evidence because religious people all over the planet constantly experience spiritual epiphanies that contradict each other. High intelligence does not guarantee sanity of mind. Swedenborg's brain was almost certainly fried and so seem to be the brains of most commenters under this video after one takes a quick look. In addition to this, the willingness to defend a dogma to death - any dogma - is a clear lack of critical thinking. What one should do instead is keep an open and flexible mind. Reality is immensely difficult to understand. Humanity's understanding is progressing with baby steps.
Well said....👍
Incorrect. Learn about the science concerning Primacy of Consciousness and Continuity of Consciousness.
@ Daes Facetus...your reply was a perfect reflection and commentary on the state of your own closed & mentally constipated state, and your lack of direct experience in the subtler realms awaiting beyond transcendence of the perception of ego separation.
I have only recently learned about this man through watching "off The left Eye" some of it is hard to understand but if I take my time things do become clearer. Thank you so much. From the UK.
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Thank you very much for this video. Could you please type where can we see other works of this man? like the ones you present at the start of the video.
***So appreciate all the work done by your team. I will help as often as a working nurse can afford. I seek to expand my heart & mind. Thank you for helping me accomplish this. My Lord lives in this. ✌️🌈✝️💖
Conjugal Love is a fascinating book. I'm reading the Chadwick translation. There is even a scene with a devil who sounds like the Grand Inquisitor from the Dostoevsky story. There are also descriptions of the sex act which I find fascinating coming from a man in his 80th decade. Emanuel Swedenborg must have been an experienced swordsman himself!
Wow' interesting. Thanks for all the info
Emmanuel Swedenborg is the most important human in my life. I have learned so much from this man. It took me many years to read 'Arcana Coelestia', and it was like digging for diamonds in hard rock deep underground. But, after getting my first gem, the size of a golf ball, I have filled my little bucket to overflowing, not only with diamonds, but rubies, emeralds, sapphires and gems that I didn't even know existed. Now, I know that if I pick up my little pick, bucket and miners head lamp, I can go back into the mine, and get another truckload that I missed the first time. This is a very reassuring prospect. 'True Christian Religion' is a must read for anyone who loves the Lord, and every book that I have read by Emmanuel has been rewarding beyond words to tell. I believe he is a modern shaman, a spiritual discerner of great skill.
Wow, this comment means a lot to us Ken! Thanks so much for sharing your joy with us!
@@SwedenborgFoundation Thank you too, for your exceptional work.
Thanks for sharing. Spreading love and wisdom to the whole world of spirit. Hope can meet everyone one day at a better level of frequency world.
Your kind and uplifting message means a lot to us, Andy. We're grateful to have you in our online community, and look forward to meeting you someday, in this world or the next!
Undoubtedly a genius, but da Vinci did the same before him.
Very interesting. He was a deep thinker.
Thanks! Yes, I think there are many similarities between Swedenborg and da Vinci that are interesting to think about!
Excellently done!
Iwish someone would make an accurate movie about Swedenborg, i think i would watch it once a day.
Not only about Swedenborg but nowadays it's streaming Things Heard & Seen on Netflix
Off the left eye is the best channel that I have come across for Emanual Swedenborgian writings and who accepts people of all religions and beliefs without insulting us like other channels do. I love listening to the teachings of Emanual Swedenborg as it only enhances my spiritual belief and gives me more knowledge and things to think about. Thank you off the left eye ! 🙏
Great sales pitch! Where do I buy this incredible product called Swedenborg?
Haha, Swedenborg is not a product! But his books are available as free downloads on our website, for whoever is interested: swedenborg.com/
Who do you think he was as a Spirit? Just another gift from God as the Bible was for the time? At each of individual period of these two, what amazes me is the fact that people in those period were not geared to really understand, but smart enough to leave nice traces for us to find, or remember. You are also one of them by giving us the privilege of learning as new the so many infinity in the
simple Word of God, thank you for permitting me to renew with God inside myself.
I personally think that Swedenborg was not anyone inherently special apart from perhaps being the most intelligent non-divine human being of all time (He's been mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records as being the person who perhaps had the highest IQ of all time). That the revelation given by God through him was supposed to be the ultimate explanation of Truth for Humanity, and that humanity had now reached its adult ability to understand everything to do with spirituality, would suggest it was now feasible that an sufficiently intelligent person of that time was capable of fully understanding and explaining it to others through his own natural intelligence. God would not now have to resort to using a human being purely as a instrument through which he would have to dictate his message, as in previous ages. Still, Swedenborg did say that God had to fill the person doing this job with his Spirit in order for it to happen. And this would mean, according to Swedenborg's own writings, that he would have had to have been personally regenerated. There's plenty in his Journal of Dreams and throughout his writings to suggest this was the case.
So basically what I'm saying is that God explained the information to Swedenborg, and Swedenborg, who understood it both intellectually and spiritually, then passed it on.
Why isn't Swedenborg better known? He clearly describes the thousands and thousands of NDE's that people have been telling for years and are now being mass published? This is it. Swedenborg is a true prophet
Hi Jessica! This is a question that is asked a lot! We have a short video with our panel that discusses why Swedenborg isn't better known: th-cam.com/video/Hle_0cLbCJQ/w-d-xo.html
Great thank you !
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Great, but the music is TOO LOUD.
Thanks for the information and the reply.
Hello.Im enjoying Arcana Coelestia books.Do you guys at the foundation believe all Swedenborg wrote ,for example about hell or do you assume there was some exagerations and methaphoric descriptions. thanks