WorkEmanuel Swedenborg

Arcana Coelestia [Heavenly Mysteries or Secrets of Heaven]

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Documented 1840–1846

Letters • Essays • Journals • Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p115

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“there lies beneath very slight expressions of his thought a double meaning like that supposed in the Swedenborgian construction.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller invokes "the Swedenborgian construction" as a hermeneutic framework for understanding Shakespeare's double meanings, referring to Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondences whereby natural and textual phenomena serve as emblems of spiritual realities

1842—

Journal Fragments, 1842

p39

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“I have found two in Swedenborg that I like, they have a deep mystical significance, one is on colors the other on forms.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

1846—

Memorabilia of Swedenborg . . .

“Memorabilia of Swedenborg . . .”

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“It is known, that man derives evil from each parent, and that this evil is called hereditary evil, therefore he is born into it; but still it does not manifest itself until the man”

Fuller, Margaret. "Memorabilia of Swedenborg . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 6 January 1846. · 6 January 1846

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Notebook 1840

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“How could Swedenborg think children were in the moon.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred Fuller names Swedenborg explicitly in connection with his belief that children dwell in the moon; this doctrine appears in Swedenborg's theological writings (e.g., Heaven and Hell). Fuller names Swedenborg and refers to a specific doctrinal claim — that children inhabit the moon. This idea appears in Swedenborg's Arcana Coelestia and Heaven and Hell.