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The Soul or Rational Psychology

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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in London, England. He was a voluminous writer of scientific treatises as well as prophetic works such as Archana Caelestia and The Divine Providence. He said he had encountered supranational agencies and communicated with angels. This is a recording of the 1849 translation of his 1743 book The Soul or Rational Psychology (Regnum Animale, Pars Septima De Anima) Latin. He took his cue from Aristotle's De Anima.

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It has been shown above that the harmonies themselves are innate with us, or that we perceive them without a teacher; as the sweetnesses of taste and smell, the symmetries of sound, the excellencies and beauties of nature; in a word, the very order of things or the harmony of modes, forces, substances, and forms. Thence also we may perceive the very truths of things, for these correspond to the order itself in nature; and this is the reason why order is called "the transcendental truth."

In order that the human intellect may exist, it is necessary that the truths themselves be variegated and as it were modified by things mendacious, or true things with false, good with evil.

There are as many worlds as there are terrestrial societies, and there are as many heavens as there are celestial societies. The love of society is both natural and acquired, for to live alone or to live without society is not to live, for whatever is one's own is not known as one's own except from others, or relatively.

When we strive for and desire what we love, and yet impossibilities interfere with our attaining our end, we call this state of desire hope, and it seems to be in the will viewed as an endeavour which these obstacles are preventing from coming forth into act and motion. Thus hope is not an affection of the mind, but of its will. For the will always endeavours to act, but so long as it is resisted does not act. Meanwhile it is affected by a certain hope, so that it remains balanced between action and inaction. Despair exists when we cut off hope; then also when, in the end itself, love and ambition, that is, the life and ardour of the mind, collapse and are as it were extinguished.

There is a liberty of thinking and a liberty of acting; and in the middle between these two there is as it were the liberty of choosing arbitrandt, in which properly free will consists; and that our mind is not capable of ruling whether the objects of the senses and their exciting influences, both from the body and the world, shall flow in or not, but it is capable of choosing whether these sensations and excitements shall flow out and be determined into act."

This third edition of the 1849 translation was published in 1914. Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel, 1796-1863 devoted himself to translating Swedenborg into German, and Frank Sewall, 1837-1915 into English. Sewall included a long introduction and three appendixes to Swedenborg's work. The introduction is included in this reading but the appendixes have been omitted. (15 hr 16 min)

Chapters

The Translators Preface by Frank Sewall

48:30

Read by Craig Campbell

The Translators Preface to the Third Edition

3:34

Read by Craig Campbell

Preface of the editor of the Latin Edition

4:25

Read by Craig Campbell

An Introductory Essay on Science and Theology in Swedenborg’s Writings

19:36

Read by Amelia Chesley

Author’s Preface

9:06

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 1 The Simple Fiber

7:47

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 2 The Senses

20:51

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 3 The Intellect and Action

29:01

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 4 The Sense of Touch

12:59

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 5 The Taste

8:04

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 6 The Smell

13:10

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 7 The Hearing

19:58

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 8 The Sight

22:37

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 9 Perception, Imagination, Memory, and Their Ideas

22:16

Read by Amy Gramour

Chapter 10 The Pure Intellect

26:13

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 11 The Human Intellect

28:12

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 12 Intercourse of Soul and Body

26:31

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 13 Concerning Harmonies and the Affections Thence Originating

14:22

Read by Lazlo

Chapter 14 Part 1 of The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

21:13

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 2 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

21:42

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 3 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

20:05

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 4 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

24:50

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 5 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

27:15

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 6 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

21:04

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 14 Part 7 The Lower Mind [Animus], and its Affections in Particular

19:04

Read by Travis Bissell

Chapter 15 Animus and Rational Mind

26:55

Read by Amy Gramour

Chapter 16 Part 1 of Concerning the Formation of the Rational Mind and Concerni…

21:21

Read by Bill Boerst

Chapter 16 Part 2 of Concerning the Formation of the Rational Mind and Concerni…

18:15

Read by Bill Boerst

Chapter 16 Part 3 of Concerning the Formation of the Rational Mind and Concerni…

22:46

Read by Bill Boerst

Chapter 17 Conclusion as to what the Animus is, What the Spiritual Mind, and Wh…

8:04

Read by Amy Gramour

Chapter 18 Part 1 of Free Will, or the Free Choice of Moral Good and Evil

20:19

Read by sgrace

Chapter 18 Part 2 of Free Will, or the Free Choice of Moral Good and Evil

20:26

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 18 Part 3 of Free Will, or the Free Choice of Moral Good and Evil

24:13

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 19 The Will and Its Liberty and What Respectively is the Intellect

29:09

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 20 Discourse

37:19

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 21 Part 1 The Spiritual Loves, or the Loves of the Soul

25:28

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 21 Part 2 The Spiritual Loves, or the Loves of the Soul

19:56

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 22 The Influx of the Animus and Its Affections into the Body, and the B…

11:19

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 23 The Influx of the Rational Mind into the Animus and by Means of the …

6:09

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 24 The Influx of the Spiritual Mind, or of the Soul into the Animus

6:43

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 25 Inclinations and Temperaments

10:05

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 26 Concerning Death

13:31

Read by Loren White

Chapter 27 The Immortality of the Soul

17:16

Read by Amy Gramour

Chapter 28 Part 1 The State of the Soul After the Death of the Body

14:14

Read by Bill Boerst

Chapter 28 Part 2 The State of the Soul After the Death of the Body

17:53

Read by Bill Boerst

Chapter 29 Concerning Heaven, or the Society of Happy Souls

16:36

Read by Lynn Lee

Chapter 30 Concerning Hell, or the Society of Unhappy Souls

7:59

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 31 Concerning the Divine Providence

17:18

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter 32 The Universal Mathesis, or a Mathematical Philosophy of Universals

10:30

Read by Craig Campbell

Bewertungen

What a eye opening book.

(5 Sterne)

Excellent book. Just the book I'd been searching for.

(4 Sterne)

Fantastic reading. My only quibble is that he mispronounces Swedenborg as Swedenberg.