July-Dec 2007
In This Issue
In Memoriam—James L. Pendleton, M.D.
Editorial Remarks
This issue begins with a remembrance of our dear friend and colleague
Dr. James L. Pendleton.
As is customary with the July–December issue, the transactions and
reports of the Annual Meeting are included, the one hundred and tenth
this year, 2007. The Annual Address was published in the January–June
issue...
Transactions of the One Hundred and Tenth Annual Meeting
Publisher/Editor Report
The Annual Meeting of the Swedenborg Scientific Association was
held on April 27, 2007, in Cairnwood Village, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
Dinner was served at 6:00 PM, and the meeting was called to order at
7:30. The president, Rev. Dr. Reuben Bell, welcomed members and friends
of the association and spoke of its current activities...
Treasurer's Report
Science and Spirituality
Karl Birjukov
Swedenborg says the following in Arcana Coelestia 7021:
When I have blotted you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their
stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its
light. All the bright lights in the heavens I will make dark over you, and I
will put darkness over your land. (Ezekiel 32: 7, 8)
This order of devastation appears regularly in the Bible, and has come
to be associated with all kinds of end-of-times outpourings in recent
years. And yet looked at in its deeper sense, it contains an irony that even
those who know that it points to the end of a certain phase of spiritual
evolution, fail to recognize the modernity of this deeper sense...
Schuchard’s Swedenborg
Brian Talbot
According to Dr. Marsha Keith Schuchard, during Swedenborg’s “long
career, he gained fame as a military engineer, natural scientist,
intelligence agent, and kabbalistic visionary.” The purpose of the following
article is to show that there is little, if any, evidence for Dr. Schuchard’s
last two classifications of Swedenborg. I do not feel that she has made a
case for his being, in fact, “a secret agent on earth and in heaven.”...
The Stockholm Exegetic and Philanthropic Society and Spiritism
Al Gabay
On 19th June 1787 the “spiritist” faction in the Stockholm Exegetic and
Philanthropic Society led by Baron Karl Göran Silfverhjelm, a nephew
of the venerable Emanuel Swedenborg, sent a letter broadcast to universities,
learned societies, mesmeric conclaves and Illuminist Freemasons
throughout Europe.1 The letter championed recent experiments conducted
by the Society as providing ready confirmation of the Truths of
Swedenborg’s teachings, in the “magnetic” means employed to contact
higher “Guardian” entities who, they argued, were instrumental in the
confrontation with, and the cure of, diseases.
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