Correspondences of the Bible: The Human Body

Within the literal language of the Bible is a deeper spiritual meaning that points the way toward a greater understanding of faith and of our own role in the world. Eighteenth-century scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg described that inner language of the Bible as correspondences. More than a century later, John Worcester used Swedenborg’s teachings as the foundation for a three-volume road map to the correspondences of the natural world. Correspondences of the Bible remains one of the most highly regarded references on the subject today. In Swedenborg’s writings, the structure of heaven is described in terms of a human being with the various communities in heaven corresponding to part of the human body. This volume describes that relationship in detail, giving us a deep, personal view of how every person relates to heaven. It also discusses the process of rebirth in heaven following our death in the physical world, and how we are gradually integrated into the afterlife.