id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9354 Emanuel Swedenborg - Wikipedia .html text/html 11286 1230 70 in which he received a revelation that he was appointed by Jesus Christ to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.[6] According to The Heavenly Doctrine, the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes so that from then on, he could freely visit heaven and hell to converse with angels, demons and other spirits and the Last Judgment had already occurred the year before, in 1757.[7] He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in True Christian Religion,[8] which he published himself.[9] Some followers of The Heavenly Doctrine believe that of his theological works, only those that were published by Swedenborg himself are fully divinely inspired.[10] Others have regarded all Swedenborg's theological works as equally inspired, saying for example that the fact that some works were "not written out in a final edited form for publication does not make a single statement less trustworthy than the statements in any of the other works".[11] The New Church, a new religious movement comprising several historically-related Christian denominations, reveres Swedenborg's writings as revelation.[12][13] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9354.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9354.txt