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Cosmogenia

Title
Cosmogenia [electronic resource] / by Hugh White.
Author
White, Hugh, Rev., of Charlottesville, Va.
Publication
Watertown, N.Y. : Published for the proprietor, by E.E. Camp, 1830.
Supplementary Content
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Details

Description
34 p.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
  • General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America
  • Cosmology > Congresses
  • Spiritualism (Philosophy) > Congresses
Note
  • Margaret Beck Block, The New Church in the New World (1932) p. 83, states that this was first published in 1817.
  • "The following sentiments, are ... meant as congenial with the divinity and philosophy of the New Jerusalem Church."--P. iv.
  • "Containing 1st. An illustration that gravitation and projectile force, considered as abstract powers, are insufficient to preserve solar systems in existence. 2. That this world was not made of nothing, nor of the eternal and imaginary atoms of Epicurus. 3. That nature or matter originated of spirit. 4. Lines of distinction between the natural and spiritual worlds. 5. That all worlds now existing, whether natural or spiritual, shall continue through endless duration. 6. That all things existing, whether in the natural or spiritual worlds, possess figure or shape. 7. That the supreme being possesses the most perfect figure of a man, notwithstanding is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. 8. The manner in which God made the worlds. 9. The origin of the whites, blacks, and copper-colored of the human race."
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
  • Sabin no. 103389.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
TGPSM08-B2129
Author
White, Hugh, Rev., of Charlottesville, Va.
Title
Cosmogenia [electronic resource] / by Hugh White.
Imprint
Watertown, N.Y. : Published for the proprietor, by E.E. Camp, 1830.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Local Note
Religion; Science.
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