Showing posts with label New Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Age. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 January 2010

The roots of the New Age


From Peter Clarke's fascinating book New Religions in Global Perspective (2006):

"The writings of Emanuel Swedenborg...are among the principle sources of New Age thinking, in particular his metaphysical theology, which is an attempt to unravel the inner sense or spiritual sense of the scriptures."