Swedenborgian

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One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, astaught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religiouswriter, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed tohave intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of hisspiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, ascomprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the oneonly God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures,which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw thecorrespondence between natural and spiritual things.