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APRIL 2008
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. READ SWEDENBORG!

King Collection sold 23 June 2006
for $32 million to Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of Dr. King.
This is what Sotheby’s wrote about the 10,000 piece collection:

THE KING LIBRARY

Perhaps the least-known significant facet of the King Collection is the contents of his library which includes approximately 1,000 volumes, ranging from childhood books, to school and college texts, through classics of history, literature and philosophy and, of course, sociology and theology. Many of these books are either closely annotated by King, or else bear presentation inscriptions from their authors. Among the hundreds of inscribed books are a presentation copy of Lyndon Johnson’s My Hope for America and James Desmond’s 1964 campaign biography of Nelson Rockefeller, inscribed by the presidential hopeful. Also included are first editions and foreign translations of King’s own writings. Another interesting item is King’s German dictionary with extensive annotations showing his determination to master the language he needed to fulfill the language requirement for his doctorate. Also of note are the more than 50 books and pamphlets by and about Mahatma Gandhi, whose passive resistance techniques were an inspiration for King’s beliefs in nonviolent social change.

Exciting as these inscribed books are, the volumes—theological and secular—that King studied as part of his formal and ongoing education are even more important as evidence of the early and continuing influences of his intellectual development. King’s interest in a text is immediately discernible by the quantity of his annotations. Some books receive only a signature of ownership, or a few cursory underlinings or marginal checkmarks. Others dramatically engaged his attention, and in these he either carried on a virtual conversation with the author (as in Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, whose endleaves and margins are crammed with King’s handwritten questions and comments) or took the printed text as a starting point for his own work (as in A Modern Anthology of Emerson, which bears on its preliminaries and first few text leaves a full autograph essay on Swedenborg and issues of slavery and freedom).

19 March 2008

Philadelphia City Paper
Hoop Heaven
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by E. James Beale

December 2007

Swedenborg is mentioned in the anti-slavery documentary:
Over the River...Life of Lydia Maria Child

View thefilm trailer.

How Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg
has influenced Dr. Oz's marriage and medical practice.

“I enjoyed reading Tim Folger’s “In No Time” [June], about modern scientists trying to characterize and quantify the essence of time as if it were a physics issue. However, the answer lies in the field of philosophy, not physics! The 18th-century Swedish scientist-philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg clearly identified time as a property of human consciousness, not of the universe. It’s sort of a filing system that humans use to measure certain points during their journey of existence. Swedenborg’s writings demonstrate that such concepts as “eternity” are properties or measurements affiliated with a state of consciousness, not time. The basic elements of the universe, whether subatomic or larger, simply go about their business of being matter or energy without regard to how long they exist.”

For over a hundred years there's been a religious community that has truly, been hiding in plain sight, in the Delaware Valley. For the first time, Action News has an inside look at this unique faith. The New Church has branches all over the world, but the one located in this area makes up the faith's largest congregation. The church believes now is the time to open its doors and let outsiders look in.