Welcome

The Swedenborg Society is a publisher, library and bookshop. We organize events, lectures, and conferences, and we print a large selection of material relating to the work of the philosopher, scientist, inventor, astronomer, mathematician, parliamentary figure and visionary, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). This website offers an overview of all our activities and aims. We have a news page, and we are currently developing a forum and discussion page. A complete catalogue of Swedenborg's works can be viewed by clicking bookshop, and if you are interested in hiring a room or a hall in Bloomsbury central London, see room hire. Most of our activities and events are free, but if you become a member you will also receive a newsletter and other special privileges.

NEWS

Breakfast with SocratesPhilosophy lecture on Wednesday 17th March: Robert Rowland Smith on 'The Philosophy of Everyday Life'  Sunday Times columnist, author of academic philosophy and lecturer at The School of Life, Robert will explore ideas found in his critically acclaimed work, 'Breakfast with Socrates'. More details here. To book your place at his talk please phone (020) 7405 7986. For enquiries only please email nora@swedenborg.org.uk.

 

Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions is NOW OVER! Featuring work by Jeremy Deller, Olivia Pl14 interventionsender, Bridget Smith and others, as well as objects chosen from our archives by Iain Sinclair, the exhibition ran throughout Swedenborg House until Feb 5th. Over one thousand people passed through the doors; the exhibition was featured in the Guardian newspaper and on Resonance Fm and BBC London. Our 'Evenings with' Iain Sinclair, Brian Catling, Ben Judd and Jonathan Jones were also tremendously successful. Thank you to everybody who took part and attended in our bicentenary exhibition. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 

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BOOKS

The books featured below are staff recommendations and are updated on a regular basis. If you are a member of the Society and would like to draw attention to a particular book by or about Swedenborg please let us know, and we can upload it and even buy it to sell in the bookshop. For a full index of our publications, please visit our online bookshop.


Staff Picks

Book of the month

paperback

Price: £11.95

Postage: £2.70

A Stellar Key to the Summerland

by Olivia Plender

Mimicking the techniques of political and scientific pamphlets from the nineteenth century and combining Spiritualist ephemera with interviews, ...
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Paperback

Price: £15.50

Postage: £2.75

Gallery of Mirrors

by A Hallengren

In this collection of essays, Anders Hallengren of Stockholm University investigates the effect of Swedenborgian thought across the globe, ...
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Book of the month

Paperback

Price: £9.50

Postage: £2.75

The Arms of Morpheus: Essays on Swedenborg and Mysticism (vol 5)

Somewhat surprisingly, given the length and detail of his visionary accounts, the question of Swedenborg's ...
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Book of the month

Paperback

Price: £6.00

Postage: £2.75

White Horse, The

by Emanuel Swedenborg

This short work, a new translation by K C Ryder, is largely drawn from Arcana Caelestia and, in part, might be understood as a kind of brochure ...
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