Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg · 1758
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About the book
A respected scientist spent his last decades reporting, in flat administrative prose, on the heaven and hell he says he visited. The strangest thing about the book is how ordinary he manages to make it all sound.
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Part 1 · The scientist who started seeing things. The first six slides, free.
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In 1758 a book appeared in London, in Latin, with no author's name on it. It described where angels live, what they wear, how they talk, and what happens to a person in the first hours after death. It was divided into numbered sections and footnoted like a legal brief.
The man who wrote it had spent most of his life on mines, metals, machines and the anatomy of the brain. He was one of the best-educated men in Sweden, a member of its nobility and a senior official of the state.
That pairing is the strange heart of the book. The visions are not written in the voice of a prophet. They are written in the same careful hand that once described smelting furnaces.
Inside the course
20 parts- Swedenborg, the scientist who started seeing thingsFree above
- What he claims this book is: a report, not a vision
- Heaven as societies: two kingdoms, three heavens
- Heaven in a human form — the Grand Man
Questions
Is Heaven and Hell free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
20 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. Heaven and Hell is waiting in the app’s library.
