TESTIMONY TO THE INVISIBLE: ESSAYS ON SWEDENBORG - Softcover

Jorge Luis Borges was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature and received numerous literary honors during his lifetime. Czeslaw Milosz, a Lithuanian-born poet, novelist, essayist, translator, critic, and literary scholar who writes in Polish. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980 and the Neustadt International Prize for literature in 1978. Kathleen Paine is a poet, critic, translator, an editor who was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England Colin Wilson is regarded as a preeminent British writer on the subject of spirituality and the esoteric. Wilson Van Dusen is a natural scholar whose interests lie between religion and psychology. With a PH.D. in clinical psychology, he worked many years with the mentally ill. Eugene Taylor received his A.B. and M.A from Southern Methodist University and his PH.D. from Boston University.

Testimony To The Invisible is a collection of essays explaining the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg on religion, psychology, and literature. Contributors include authors Jorge Luis Borges and Czeslaw Milosz, metaphysician Colin Wilson, psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, poet Kathleen Raine, and historian Eugene Taylor (who writes about Emerson's admiration for Swedenborg). In addition, Kei Torita translates excerpts from "Swedenborugu", written by Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki, that explains his interest in Swedenborg's writings and his work of translating them into Japanese. As the insights of Emanuel Swedenborg can be appreciated by a variety of readers, so will this collection appeal to many: especially those interested in the history of ideas, religion, philosophy, literature and psychology. Testimony To The Invisible shows how relevant Swedenborg is today, just as he has been influential in the past. -- Midwest Book Review