"Since my seventeenth year, I have tried to live according to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. By "church" he did not mean an ecclesiastical organization, but a spiritual fellowship of thoughtful men and women who spend their lives for a service to mankind that outlasts them. He called it a civilization that was to be born of a healthy, universal religion — goodwill, mutual understanding, service from each to all, regardless of dogma or ritual."
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Helen Keller, in Guideposts (June 1956); also in the second edition of Light in My Darkness (2000), an edited and expanded revision of her My Religion"' (1927)
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Emanuel Swedenborg
1688 – 1772
schwedischer Wissenschaftler, Mystiker und Theologe
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