The Secret of Swedenborg

Cambkidge, Mass., January, 1869, CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Creation the fundamental problem of philosophv. — Difficulties of the problem. — Kant's attempt to reconcile them. — A supernatural creation, that is, a creation which does not conform to the order and methods of nature, inconceivable. — The moral h}-pothesis of creation untenable. — Morality not a creative end, but only a creative means. — Swedenborg and Hegel contrasted. — Swedenborg's analysis of consciousness, establisning the superiority of its objective to its subjective element, and giving the key to the philosophy of creation, in his doctrine of the lord, or maximus homo. 1-11 CHAPTER I. Swedenborg's private history and intellectual character. — His biography, by "William White. — His doctrine of the lord, or divine natural human- ity, briefly stated 11-15 CHAPTER n.