An extensive
collection of articles covering a variety of aspects of this subject, from
the nature of Swedenborg's preparation to the revelation process itself.
"Lest therefore
that the man of the New Church should wander about, like those of the
Old, in the shade that obscures the sense of the letter of the Word,
especially in respect to heaven and hell and man's life after death, and
... in respect to the Lord's coming, it has pleased the Lord to open the
sight of my spirit, and thus introduce me into the spiritual
world. He has thus permitted me not only to talk with spirits and
angels, and relatives and friends, and even with kings and princes who
have finished their course in the natural world, but also to behold the
mighty wonders of heaven and the miseries of hell. I have also
seen that man after death does not abide in some indeterminate place in
the earth, nor flit about blind and dumb in the air or in the empty
void, but lives as a man in a substantial body, and in a more perfect
state if he joins the company of the blessed....." (Emanuel
Swedenborg, The True Christian Religion 771)
