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In this brief introduction, Gary Lachman gives an accessible overview of the many fascinating ways in which Swedenborg's system of correspondences has impacted upon the past 250 years.

Swedenborgian and homeopathic practitioner James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99) had contacts among some fascinating and influential figures in spirituality and the arts: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Tyler Kent, and Andrew Jackson Davis, to name a few. Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture highlights Wilkinson's forgotten influence on homeopathy and the arts as well as his involvement with history-making social movements such as utopianism, women's suffrage, environmentalism, and more. A must-have for people who want to better understand Emanuel Swedenborg's far-reaching influence in the nineteenth century.

In New Jerusalem: The Good City and the Good Society, Ken Worpole reveals that utopian and visionary thinking, especially in relation to new forms of settlement and livelihood, has not gone away, even if it has gone underground. With an unprecedented growth in the population of older people, along with increasing cultural and demographic change elsewhere in society, there is renewed interest in more convivial forms of urban design, as well as shared living. This interest draws on a long history of elective communities, including those influenced by the thought and works of Emanuel Swedenborg--a fascinating history with much to offer the architects and policymakers of today.

John S. Haller presents a series of essays on key figures in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries connected by their fascination with the philosopher, scientist, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Highlighted figures include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Fourier, and D. T. Suzuki.

William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges's appreciation of Emanuel Swedenborg, showing the Swedish visionary's influence on Borges's writing.