Christ-God, Man a spiritual being, the warfare of Regeneration,
Marriage, the Sacred Scriptures, the Life of Charity and Faith, the
Divine Providence, Death and the Future Life, the Church. We have
endeavored to press within the small compass of this book passages
which give the gist of Swedenborg's teachings on these subjects.

The compilers would gladly have made room for the interpretative and
philosophical teachings which contribute so much to the content and
form of Swedenborg's theology; but they have confined their effort to
setting forth briefly and clearly the positive spiritual teachings,
where these seemed most packed with religious meaning and moment.

The translation of the passages here brought together has been
carefully revised.

JULIAN K. SMYTH.




BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


Emanuel Swedenborg was born at Stockholm, January 29, 1688.

A devout home (the father was a Lutheran clergyman, and afterwards
Bishop of Skara) stimulated in the boy the nature which was to become
so active in his culminating life-work. A university education at
Upsala, however, and studies for five years in England, France,
Holland and Germany, brought other interests into play first. The