Life On Other Planets.Life On Other Planets Emanuel Swedenborg Swedenborg Foundation Publishers 320 North Church Street, West Chester West Chester, borough (1990 pop. 18,041), seat of Chester co., SE Pa., W of Philadelphia; inc. 1799. Primarily residential, West Chester was long the trade and processing center for an agricultural region that is now mainly suburbs. , PA 19380 0877853207 $10.95 www.swedenborg.com Written by visionary Emanuel Swedenborg and Translated by Cambridge scholar John Chadwick John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B, along with Michael Ventris. , Life On Other Planets is a metaphysical met·a·phys·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to metaphysics. 2. Based on speculative or abstract reasoning. 3. Highly abstract or theoretical; abstruse. 4. a. Immaterial; incorporeal. text originally published in 1758, recounting the author's otherworldly travels and conversations with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and the moon. Of particular interest is Swedenborg's assessment of "The Reasons Why the Lord Chose to Be Born in Our World and Not in Another". Written in point-by-point paragraph style, Life On Other Planets weighs Swedenborg's transcendental experiences and his deep and abiding a·bid·ing adj. Lasting for a long time; enduring: an abiding love of music. a·bid  ing·ly adv. Christian faith in equal measure,
and is as deeply spiritual as it is far reaching.
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