New Philosophy (Volume 23-25) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Excerpt: ... THE NEW PHILOSOPHY Vol. XXV JANUARY-APRIL, 1922 Nos. 1 and 2. NOTES BY THE EDITOR. The arrival in this country some two months ago of bound volumes of the phototyped manuscripts of Arcana Celest1a, Adversar1a and Index B1bl1cus, which have been received by the Academy Of The New Church, the General Convent1on and the Amer1can Swedenborg Soc1ety, and presumably also by the Rotch Trustees, marks the commencement of the final winding up of the great undertaking commenced in 1910, when a number of New Church publishers, including a representative of the Swedenborg Sc1ent1f1c Assoc1at1on, met together in London in connection with the Swedenborg Congress. All the volumes of the phototyped manuscripts due the American bodies have not yet been received, but it is probably only a question of a short time before each of the bodies has its proper share of these works. The undertaking contemplated by the meeting of New Church publishers at the rooms of the London Swedenborg Society in 1910 was the final completion of the work of reproducing the theological manuscripts of Emanuel Swedenborg. A small part of this work had been done many years previously by Dr. R. L. Tafel in his Photol1thographed Manuscr1pts; but it may surprise our readers to know that more than one half of the photolithographed volumes issued under the editorship of Dr. Tafel consists of scientific and philosophical manuscripts. The only theological works reproduced in that series were two volumes of the second draft of the Apocalypse Expla1ned and one volume of M1nor Theolog1cal Works, the total comprising 1,474 pages. Later, about 1906, under the editorship of Mr. Alfred H. Stroh, the Sp1r1tual D1ary was phototyped in three volumes, comprising 1,796 pages; and still later, in 1910, the Index B1bl1cus was phototyped in three v...