The Way to a Knowledge of the Soul (Wilkinson translation)


Haec translatio est: De Via ad Cognitionem Animae

Interpretatio in English


Descriptio:

From the contents of this paper it appears that it marks the author's passage from his preliminary investigations concerning the nature of the soul to the more thorough methods which reached their first culmination in his Economy of the Animal Kingdom.

De hac translatione:

The present translation of Swedenborg's treatise "De Via ad Cognitionem Animae" is by James John Garth Wilkinson, M. D., and is reprinted, with some revision, from the first edition of the Posthumous Tracts. In the second reference Dr. Tafel assigns to it the date 1738 and lists it as number 53 in the "Chronological Account." From the contents of this paper it appears that it marks the author's passage from his preliminary investigations concerning the nature of the soul to the more thorough methods which reached their first culmination in his Economy of the Animal Kingdom.

Dies creationis: 1738

Prolatio: The author of this work was Emanuel Swedenborg, who wrote it in Latin, in 1738. This translation is by James John Garth Wilkinson, M. D., and it was printed in London in 1847.

Potestas: Public domain


Relatio Suggesta:

The Way to a Knowledge of the Soul. Translated. Retrieved from: newchristianbiblestudy.org


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