PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCES
by

JOHN WORCESTER ©1889

BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS NEW-CHURCH UNION 1931

BRYN ATHYN: SWEDENBORG SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 1987, ISBN 0-915221-64-0

From text scans at the University of Hawaii, November 2001
 

Table of Contents


Introduction Supra-Renal Capsules Cartilages
Lips, Tongue & Teeth Kidneys Skin
Saliva Peritonaeum Hair
Oesophagus Heart and the Lungs Hands
Stomach Nose Feet
Intestines Organs of Speech Ear
Mesentery Pleura Eye
Liver Diaphragm Generation & Regeneration
Spleen and the Pancreas Muscles in General Brain
Omentum Bones (Whole book as one file)

 

INTRODUCTION

“THE states of spirits and angels, with all their varieties, can in no wise be understood without a knowledge of the human body; for the Lord’s kingdom is like a man.” (SE 1145½)
“That heaven as a whole is like one man is an Arcanum not yet known in the world; but in heaven it is mostly certainly known. To know that, and the specific and particular things concerning it, is the chief of the intelligence of the angels there; very many things also depend upon it, which without that as their general principle do not enter distinctly and clearly into their minds.” (HH 59)

“The chief of the intelligence which angels have is to know and perceive that all of life is from the Lord, and that the whole heaven corresponds to His Divine Human, and consequently that all angels spirits, and men correspond to heaven; also to know and perceive how they correspond. These are the chief things of the intelligence in which angels are above men; things which are in the heavens, and hence also those which are in the world.” (AC 4318)

The correspondence of the whole heaven with the Divine Human, and of individual men with the heavens, is the subject of these studies.