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Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen

from things heard and seen

Also known as De coelo et ejus mirabilibus; Heaven and its Wonders and Hell

by Emanuel Swedenborg & John John Curtis Ager (Translator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Heaven and its Wonders and Hell" by Emanuel Swedenborg is a theological work written in Latin and published in 1758. Based on what Swedenborg claimed were divine revelations, the book provides a detailed account of the afterlife—describing how people live after physical death. Swedenborg presents Heaven and Hell as real places where angels and spirits, all former humans, experience active lives in environments that reflect their inner states. The work explores fundamental questions about God's nature, the fate of souls, and the spiritual forces that draw people toward Heaven or Hell. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences.

  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Future life” and “future life”. Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the description and “Future life” in the subject metadata.

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Editions

Open Library reports 57 editions; 5 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1875-01-01T00:00:00ZPhiladelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.English—Public digitized item

Open Library record

1876J. B. Lippincott & co.——Public

Heaven and its wonders, and hell.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1965Citadel Press; Philadelphia : [s.n.]English—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 57 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 7 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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