The last decades of the eighteenth century saw the establishment in the United States of Swedenborgian congregations. |
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The stories were chosen as a sampling of James's unacknowledged publications for their use of Swedenborgian ideas. |
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Having grown up an agnostic, in the later years of her life she became a Swedenborgian. |
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I'm sure there was a footnote somewhere about a Swedenborgian belief that trees were elevated spirits or something. |
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He introduces us to a Swedenborgian who believed in communicating with spirits. |
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In his later years he turned to occultism and the Swedenborgian religion. |
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From his Swedenborgian father he inherited both a comfortable income and a restless interest in everything human under the sun. |
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He prepared for college with a Swedenborgian tutor, the Reverend Tilly Brown Hayward. |
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Meanwhile he continued his schooling under a Swedenborgian teacher. |
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In young adulthood, she seized on Swedenborgian spiritualism. |
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Raised rather haphazardly as a Swedenborgian, in an Ohio saturated with Protestant piety, he slowly but thoroughly became an agnostic, and, in his middle life, turned to Tolstoy and socialism in lieu of a supernatural faith. |
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He began a study of the prophetic books of William Blake, and this enterprise brought him into contact with other visionary traditions, such as the Platonic, the Neoplatonic, the Swedenborgian, and the alchemical. |
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