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[Anonymous No.17542462]

> Emanuel Swedenborg kept a dream diary. And among the heavenly visions, there were also erotic dreams. The Journal covers a period from July 1743 until October 1744, a time when Swedenborg was going through a transition from life as a scientist and mining engineer to one as a ‘revelator’ and seer. As he was to put it himself: ‘I for my part… had never expected to come into that state in which I am now; but the Lord selected me for this, and for revealing the spiritual meaning of Scripture, which he had promised in the Prophets and in the Book of Revelation. My purpose previously had been to explore nature, chemistry, the science of mining, and anatomy, etc.’

> In the Journal Swedenborg describes in detail a vision of Christ he had while staying in Delft (just three miles from The Hague). Early in the Journal Swedenborg noted that after arriving at The Hague ‘…the inclination for women, which had been my chief passion, so suddenly ceased’. Swedenborg never married, nor is it recorded that he ever had a long-term mistress, but later entries reveal a man with strong heterosexual feelings.

> In one vivid dream, no. 171, Swedenborg finds himself in bed with a woman. She touches his penis with her hand and he has an erection, bigger than he has ever had. He penetrates her, reflecting that a child must come of this, and writes that he got off en merveille.

[Anonymous No.17542470]

>>17542462
> In the next paragraph, no. 172, Swedenborg explains that this dream signifies the ultimate love of the holy and that the ejaculation of semen represents the love of wisdom. Worldly reason considers this to be impure, but in reality it is pure. This is something that Swedenborg would develop in his later books, above all in Conjugial Love, where he insists that erotic love is of divine origin, although human beings may pervert it to selfish, and therefore evil, ends.

> In another dream he is unable to control his desire for a woman and finds himself in the company of his friend Professor Niklas Oelreich (among other things the censor of the Swedish press from 1746) in visiting brothels, although without, apparently, the intention of having sexual intercourse. In a remarkable dream (no. 120) he is lying with a woman who was not beautiful but who pleased him. He touched her vagina and discovered that it had a set of teeth. Suddenly this woman assumes the form of a man, the politician Johan Archenholtz, a friend and ally of Swedenborg’s. The image of the vagina dentata (vagina with teeth) appears again in no. 261 where he sees in a vision a fiercely burning coal fire that represents the ‘fire of love’. Then he is with a woman whom he wants to penetrate, but the teeth prevent him entering her.

[Anonymous No.17542481]

>>17542462
>She touches his penis with her hand and he has an erection, bigger than he has ever had. He penetrates her, reflecting that a child must come of this, and writes that he got off en merveille.
Hot

[Anonymous No.17542532]

>>17542462
>>17542470
This all sounds extremely familiar.

Where can I read Swedenborg?

[Anonymous No.17542576]

>>17542532
In a ward if you dont get your shit together anon

[Anonymous No.17542599]

>>17542576
Shut up you un-Spiritual faggot.

[Anonymous No.17542619]

>>17542599
Any previous instances of schizophrenia in your family?

[Anonymous No.17542841]

>>17542619
>having dreams is schizophrenic

[Anonymous No.17542854]

>>17542841
>believing dreams a sign from sex god is not schizophrenic

[Anonymous No.17542878]

>>17542854
>muh reductio ad absurdum "desert zombie"

[Anonymous No.17542889]

>>17542878
>muh its not like my absurd meaning projection is lunacy

[Anonymous No.17543039]

>She touches his penis with her hand and he has an erection, bigger than he has ever had. He penetrates her, reflecting that a child must come of this, and writes that he got off en merveille.

[Anonymous No.17544491]

But don’t you think Swedenborg was divinely inspired? Should his revelations be included in the bible?

[Anonymous No.17544548]

>>17544491
Well, his religious system was basically mormonism.

[Anonymous No.17544577]

>>17544548
>Well, his religious system was basically mormonism.
Why would someone even think this?

[Anonymous No.17545460]

>>17544577
Joseph Smith speaks well of him, but says he was imperfect. There are clear parallels between Mormonism and Swedenborgism; and it's even been proven that Smith had access to Swedenborg's writings through his local library.

[Anonymous No.17545587]

>>17545460
Smith was a retard and a conman, so what if he ripped off some imagery which isn't even that similar?