On the intercourse between the soul and the body

Boston: Otis Clapp, 1848. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Original yellow printed wrappers. The publisher’s English translation of Swedenborg’s popular cosmological treatise. In it, the author claims that there are two worlds—the natural and the spiritual, each with its own sun. The sun of the natural world is fire and thus all beings that live in its presence are dead, and the sun of the spiritual world is only a manifestation of God’s love. Man may ascend from the natural to the spiritual world and attain immortality through moral words and deeds.