The New Philosophy Vol 58 No 1, January 1955

A Course in “Natural Philosophy”

by Edward F. Allen

It will be the purpose of this paper to give in a few pages the outline of the first semester of a course offered in the College of The Academy of the New Church entitled Natural Philosophy. The studies of this course are aimed at relating man-made contributions to knowledge through reason and experience to philosophical questions. It is because of the origin of such knowledge, as contrasted with Revelation as a source, that the course is called Natural Philosophy.

The Human Mind

by Hugo Lj. Odhner

Doctrine and experience alike tell us that man is born sensual and corporeal. But doctrine also reveals that the sensual degree of man is by inheritance so perverted that his only hope of salvation lies in an elevation from the sensual—an escape from the dark jungle of the merely animal impulses and corporeal appetites which rule him so long as his life is immersed in the flesh.

Notes by the Editor

by Editor

Book Review: The Swedenborg Epic

by Morna Hyatt

It is now more than two years since the publication of Cyriel Sigstedt’s The Swedenborg Epic. This work has received some consideration in these pages, but recently a review by Dr. Ernst Benz of Marburg (in the Review of Religion, November 1953) has come to our attention and has aroused some reflections. This month of Swedenborg’s birthday seems an appropriate time to discuss the Epic and other biographies of Swedenborg. The following is from Dr. Benz’s review, and is reproduced with the permission of the Review of Religion...

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