(March 2, 2012 at 5:20 am)Forsaken Wrote:Quote:In Life on Other Planets, Swedenborg stated that he conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and the moon. He did not report conversing with spirits from Uranus and Neptune, which were not yet discovered. ~ Wikipedia
Pretty much sums it up.
On its face it sounds absurd. But I find that it makes sense in light of Hermetic tradition and the symbolism of alchemy. Plus he did in fact mentioned planets in far away and as yet unknown planets.
