Correspondences of the Bible. The plants, the minerals, and the atmospheres / John Worcester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worcester, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Correspondences, Doctrine of.

Plants in the Bible.

Minerals in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Chester, Pennsylvania : Swedenborg Foundation Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Within the literal language of the Bible is a deeper spiritual meaning that points the way toward a greater understanding of faith and of our own role in the world.Eighteenth-century scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg described that inner language of the Bible as "correspondences." More than a century later, John Worcester used.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""About This Book""; ""The Correspondence of Plants""; ""The Fruit Trees ""; ""The Olive""; ""The Vine""; ""The Palm""; ""The Fig Tree""; ""The Pomegranate""; ""Various Fruits""; ""The Nut Trees ""; ""Almonds""; ""Beech Trees""; ""Chestnuts""; ""The Oak""; ""The Terebinth""; ""Cone-Bearing Trees ""; ""The Cedar of Lebanon""; ""The Sequoias""; ""The Cypress""; ""The Juniper""; ""Thyine Wood""; ""Pines""; ""Firs and Spruces""; ""Review of Cone-Bearing Trees""; ""The Shittah Tree ""; ""Willows and Poplars ""; ""Shrubs and Flowers ""; ""Roses""; ""The Box and the Myrtle""

""Thorns and Thistles""""Aromatics ""; ""Aromatic Trees and Shrubs""; ""Onycha""; ""Hyssop""; ""Mustard""; ""The Cereals ""; ""Wheat""; ""Spelt""; ""Rye""; ""Barley""; ""Oats""; ""Rice""; ""Maize""; ""The Solanum Family ""; ""The Mandrake""; ""The Potato""; ""Tomatoes""; ""Tobacco""; ""Pulse ""; ""The Cucumbers and the Melons,and the Leeks and the Onions and the Garlic ""; ""Grasses ""; ""Reeds and Rushes ""; ""The Papyrus""; ""Reeds for Pens and Measurement""; ""Sweet Cane""; ""Flax and Cotton ""; ""The Tree of Life ""; ""Water ""; ""Salt""; ""The Sea""; ""The Clouds of Heaven""; ""Streams""

""Ice""""Dew""; ""Snow""; ""Hail""; ""Steam""; ""The Rocks and Metals ""; ""Rocks""; ""Roads""; ""Soil""; ""Millstones""; ""Pottery""; ""Deposited and Crystalline Rocks""; ""Precious Stones""; ""Metals""; ""Gold""; ""Silver""; ""Copper""; ""Iron""; ""Carbon""; ""Sulphur""; ""Phosphorus""; ""The Sunbeam ""; ""Colors""; ""Creation through the Sun""; ""The Atmospheres ""; ""Oxygen""; ""Nitrogen""; ""The Air in General""; ""Note on the Copper and Iron Ages ""; ""Spiritual Works by Emanuel Swedenborg""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

First edition published in 1888 by the Massachusetts New-Church Union, Boston; Reprinted in 1930 by the Massachusetts New-Church Union, Boston; Reprinted in 2009 by the Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-87785-657-5

OCLC:

923421419