Since my seventeenth year, I have tried to live according to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. By church he did not mean an ecclesiastical organization, but a spiritual fellowship of thoughtful men and women who spend their lives for a service to mankind that outlasts them. He called it a civilization that was to be born of a healthy, universal religion — goodwill, mutual understanding, service from each to all, regardless of dogma or ritual.

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Emanuel Swedenborg was a 17th-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758). Read more on Wikipedia →

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