Divine Providence by Emmanuel Swedenborg is nothing short of brilliant. Swedenborg contends that God governs the human race by allowing people to do as they wish. Recognizing that 'He governs best who governs least, ' God governs in a way that is basically invisible, and yet He still governs. According to Swedenborg, God maintains 'control' in myriads of subtle ways, and yet the system is set up in such a way that people really are free. That is, people can acknowledge or not acknowledge God, they can obey or disobey Him, they can think and do as they wish. This provides a pretty good...

An unabridged edition of Swedenborg's famous work. Includes a subject index and scripture index

Traite de la relation qui subsiste entre le Spirituel et le Materiel: "Une question obscure, epineuse, pleine de difficultes, et qui a exerce de tous les temps la sagacite des philosophes qui ont voulu penetrer les mysteres de la nature, c'est sans doute celle de l'union de l'ame et du corps, et du commerce ou correspondance entre ces deux substances. Trois hypotheses partagent les savants sur cette importante question. Les uns pretendent qu'il y a une influence physique du corps dans l'ame; ils veulent que le corps, frappe par les agents exterieurs, porte le sentiment de cette commotion a...