THE GIST OF SWEDENBORG

Compiled by

JULIAN K. SMYTH and WILLIAM F. WUNSCH

This Book Is Published by the Trustees of the Iungerich Publication Fund
Swedenborg Foundation, Inc.
New York

1920







FOREWORD


The reason for a compilation such as is here presented should be
obvious. Swedenborg's theological writings comprise some thirty or
more substantial volumes, the result of the most concentrated labor
extending over a period of twenty-seven years. To study these writings
in their whole extent, to see them in their minute unfoldment out of
the Word of God, is a work of years. It is doubtful if there is a
phase of man's religious experience for which an interpretation is not
here to be found. Notwithstanding this immense sweep of doctrine there
are certain vital, fundamental truths on which it all rests:--the