Arcana Coelestia, Vol. 6 of 8 (Forgotten Books)

The Arcana Coelestia, quae in Scriptura Sacra seu Verbo Domini sunt, detecta (or "Heavenly Secrets") is the first and largest work published by Emanuel Swedenborg in his theological period. It was written and published in Neolatin, in eight volumes, one volume per year, from 1749 to 1756.It consists of an exposition of the spiritual sense of the books of Genesis and Exodus, according to the doctrine of correspondence (theology) and demonstrated by many supporting quotations from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. While not denying the historicity of the stories of the Patriarchs (Bible) and The Exodus from Egypt, it explains them as describing symbolically the process of spiritual growth and struggles in each individual personIn the standard edition of the Arcana Coelestia, revised and edited by Rev. John Faulkner Potts and published by the Swedenborg Foundation in 1956, the prefatory notes by the reviser contains a summary of the publishing history for the work originally published by Emanuel Swedenborg. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorEmanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772)Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase, in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which t