Word: swedenborg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from a solitary homesteader, read aloud from the Bible or a volume of Swedenborg he usually carried, sleep on the hearth and be off at dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover nakedness, he took to wearing a coffee sack with holes for his arms and legs...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
...William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories and most capacious files in existence...
...would be difficult to find in the writings of any two religious leaders greater differences in premise and conclusion than in those of Swedenborg and Mrs. Eddy. . . . The claim that this daughter of an almost fanatical member of the Congregational Church was sent to Sunday School at a Swedenborgian church, or even that there was such a church in either of the tiny New Hampshire villages where she grew to womanhood, is as ridiculous as it is untrue...
More to the point, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had considerable contact in her childhood with the teachings of Swedenborg, while attending a New Church Sunday School. Her Science and Health is obviously the garbled result of her acquaintance with Swedenborg, and her utter lack of understanding of his theology...