Le nguqulo eka: Historia de Creatio
Incazelo:
From 1734 through 1749, Swedenborg's interests gradually shifted from the physical sciences to life sciences -- biology, anatomy, the human body -- especially the brain -- and psychology, and then on towards religion. He was exploring the interaction between the soul and the body, and - more and more - felt that he needed to approach the topic from a spiritual perspective. He figured out that spiritual consciousness was connected, or seated somehow, in the cerebral cortex, but that anatomy wasn't going to find the soul. And, he saw that human spirituality was a deep reality that needed to be better understood.
In this unpublished transitional work from the summer of 1745, Swedenborg started to try to explain the first 3 chapters of Genesis, to square the ancient story passed down by Moses with what he knew from his scientific and philosophical work.
Mayelana nale nguqulo:
In this brief unfinished work, Swedenborg looks at the text of the first 3 chapters of Genesis, and begins to explain how the literal text can be interpreted in the light of its internal meaning, and by what was known from the science of the day.
