The Secret of Swedenborg

CHAPTER V. A closer exposition of Swedenborg's doctrine of creation. — The law of the creature's subjective constitution. — Nature the realm neither of being nor of not being, but of existence, and hence the iertium quid of which philosophy has always been in search to reconcile God and m:in. It is not the spiritual creation itself, but the shadow of it projected upon a finite intelligence. — Our intelligence conditioned upon nature. — Swe- dcnborg nuikes nature a theatre oi recelatiun exclusively, and denies it any other worth. 31-37 CONTENTS. Sa CHAPTER VL Swedenborg not properlr chargeable with pantheistic or idealist tendencies ; being separated from them by his doctrine of creation, -which makes nature no being but only a seeming, no substance but only a shadow. 38-40 CHAPTER VII.