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Portrait of Swedenborg by Carl Frederik von Breda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By \u00a0Rony Lolano {Novelist}<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A search in Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian\u2019s vast private archives delivered this gem of a documentary recording (by Mr. K. Arakelyan, London) of a landmark millennial lecture delivered by the Professor upon the invitation of the quaint English Swedenborg Society<\/em><\/strong> (founded in 1810, London).<\/p>\n

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See end of this article imported videos!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It celebrates Emanuel Swedenborg\u2019s birthday in 2000.\u00a0 Few may have heard of the Swedish sage \u2013 Swedenborg\u2019s time seems not to have come yet, but it is definitely drawing nearer, thanks to initiatives like the one represented with this Documentary.\u00a0 \u00a0Swedenborg (1688-1772) was controversial and a legend even during his own lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an intellectual brimful of dialectical contradictions, which confused \u2013 actually \u2018drove mad\u2019 \u2013 one of the greatest philosophers of all time, his younger namesake, the German contemporary Immanuel Kant<\/strong> (1724-1804)\u201d, states Professor Pilikian (in a personal communication), and continues;<\/p>\n

\u201cKant initially was absorbed by the narratives of \u2018psychic powers\u2019 circulating about Swedenborg \u2013 Kant took them very<\/strong> seriously for a study, especially as he was the great promoter of Plato\u2019s concept of an \u2018invisible reality\u2019 (the \u2018World of Pure Forms<\/em>\u2019) hidden behind (and beyond the visible world).\u00a0 Kant wanted to be able to \u2018see\u2019\/ grasp and ultimately define that world through human Reason \u2013 hence his unmitigated initial interest in Swedenborg\u2019s work claiming to have already seen and visited that world<\/span> (his book titled Heaven and Hell<\/em>)… Later, predictably, and understandably, on closer study, the great philosopher became sceptical, and even \u2018angry\u2019, feeling cheated, mocking the Sage viciously, declaring him a fraud.\u00a0 Fair enough, one would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what was unforgivable, ethically reprehensible, and remains hitherto unobserved by historians of philosophy,<\/span><\/strong> is the fact that Kant (who was great on Ethics \u2013 the \u2018<\/span><\/em>Categorical Imperative\u2019) shamelessly plagiarized<\/em><\/span><\/strong> one of Swedenborg\u2019s most original scientific speculations (in 1734, in Principia<\/em>; in Latin) referred to as the Nebular Hypothesis<\/span><\/em> \u2013 a cosmological explanation of Cosmogony \u2013 the formation and evolution of the Solar system.\u00a0 Even Kant\u2019s book-title two decades later than Swedenborg\u2019s own book, sounds … Swedenborgian; Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels<\/em> = General Natural History and theory of the Heavens<\/em>, 1755.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although I myself am habituated to the Professor\u2019s extraordinary discoveries in several fields of knowledge \u2013 he is perhaps the greatest outside-the-box Thinker of our century \u2013<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/ people-politics-law\/politics-p olicy-people\/society-matters\/t hinking-outside-the-box-resolv ing-the-palestinian-problem<\/a><\/p>\n

I am nevertheless shocked by his unraveling of the great German philosopher\u2019s plagiarism of the Swedish Sage, whose theological innovation seems even greater (in Professor Pilikian\u2019s eyes) than his scientific speculation. Here are some more seismic eruptions of astral intellectual energy from the Professor\u2019s pen;<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the great rabid anti-communist conspiracies in the History of the Mind, is the camouflage of the absolute fact that the young<\/strong> Karl Marx was an ardent disciple of … Jesus Christ<\/span><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 at seventeen \u2013 while most of today\u2019s American youth is drunk, drugged and urinating in the streets of their big cities \u2013 the culture of High Capitalism, copy-catted by the European Union youth! \u2013 the young Karl Marx (attending the Trier Gymnasium<\/em> \u2018Grammar\u2019 School) wrote in 1835 a profound interpretative essay (for graduation) on St. John\u2019s Gospel<\/em> Ch. 15:1-14<\/em>, titled The Union of the Faithful with Christ<\/span><\/em> (The Karl Marx Library, volume V, tr. by Saul K. Padover, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York 1974, pp. 3-6).\u00a0 It leaves the present reader in no doubt that Marx\u2019s communist Utopia was no more than Jesus Christ\u2019s promise of God\u2019s Kingdom on Earth<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Marx\u2019s passion for Social Justice is the longing for God\u2019s absolute<\/strong> Justice against Capitalist corruption, satanic exploitation of the masses, and Nazi enslavement of human labour!<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one (not even the Pope) is infallible \u2013 unfortunately Karl Marx could not appreciate that Martin Luther (1483-1546), like Jesus Christ himself, was one of the greatest revolutionaries of all time<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Luther, I think, changed the world fundamentally for-ever \u2013 without his movement of Protestant Reformation<\/em>, the masses of Europe would still be crawling like infective worms in the diseased prison of the Vatican Church … and the cause of Luther\u2019s prime-cut revolution? \u2013 The rampant \u2018capitalist\u2019 corruption of the Catholic Church, priests shamelessly selling what were called indulgences<\/span>, <\/em><\/strong>Pope-signed documents forgiving sins by the wealthy bought for money, when Jesus himself had chased the usurers out of the Jews\u2019 national Temple<\/em> a thousand years earlier<\/span>!!\u00a0 Alas, alack, the Evangelical Churches of the Bible-belt Texan America even today have become <\/strong>sausage-machines to coin dollars with fraudulent<\/span><\/strong> Christianity, like the scam-indulgences of Luther\u2019s time subsidizing some Crusades. \u00a019th<\/sup> c. Western imperialism abused<\/span><\/strong> Jesus Christ\u2019s faith as a tool to swallow bits of the world \u2013 most of it by the British, some of it by the proto- then truly Nazi Germans, and Fascist Italians… I witnessed recently an \u2018Americanized\u2019 African preacher in London disgustingly deceiving his black congregation out of their pittance … incredibly, he persuaded his flock to part with \u00a380.000 in just an hour in the name of Jesus Christ … while simultaneously railing and ranting and cursing parishioners who lacked any money-obsession.\u00a0 On the other hand, the noble Jehovah Witnesses<\/em> in comparison can proudly announce that they disapprove of even a milder form of money-collection after their service \u2013 shame and damnation on the American bible-belt bashers and their African copy-cats for perverting through monetarization Jesus Christ\u2019s religion.\u00a0 Martin Luther sent the Archbishop of Mainz his anti-capitalist Disputation (Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences<\/em>) in 1517 (and tradition has it that he also nailed a copy on the door of All Saints\u2019 Church<\/em> in Wittenberg), similarly the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/em> today have inscribed commendably on the signboard of their Kingdom Hall<\/em> (in New Barnet, for example) No Collection<\/em><\/strong> … I was sickened thirty years ago, when at an Anglican church Service (I think no less than in the Westminster Abbey<\/em>), the Vicar took the Collection money-bags, bowed and kowtowed before them, kissed, blessed and prayed over them for fifteen minutes … I never went back to the church, not to suffer yet again such ugly \u2018American\u2019 anti-JesusChrist capitalist pornography.\u00a0 It soils my Soul.\u00a0 I felt violated recently by the said African money-mad Born-Again preacher in London\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Professor\u2019s scholarly discoveries above shattered my own mind … He has a unique and a remarkable skill of weaving together like tapestry the old, the new and the very recent, I should have predicted more would be forthcoming, and built up intellectual strength to grasp them;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe socio-economic impact of Luther\u2019s …\u2019Marxist\u2019 revolution was innovatively defined not by the \u2018economist\u2019 Karl Marx, alas, but the great Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920), whose astonishing book Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (= <\/em>The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904-5), a collection of essays with the general hypothesis that the Protestant mindset<\/strong> with its emphasis on individual enterprise \u2013 the Calvinist version of monastic \u2018ascetic hard work\u2019, thrift and efficiency \u2013 I would say the Germanic \u2018Nazi\u2019 version of \u2018No Sex please, we\u2019re British\u2019 \u2013 was the fundamental basis of Capitalism, enabling its socio-economic exploitative relations.\u00a0 I am of course putting it negatively, what Weber endorsed wholeheartedly.\u00a0 But the illiteracy of American Capitalist ideologues is such that even to this day, they have not owned up and\/or glorified Weber\u2019s anti-Marxist anti-sex theory appropriately\u201d, concluded Professor Pilikian.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntirely spiritualist, Swedenborg was of course oblivious to socio-economic problems.\u00a0 His radical epoch-making religious \u2018insight\u2019, still not given due acknowledgment was his re-assembling of the Holy Trinity<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 forced apart by the Catholic Church Vs.<\/em> the Eastern Orthodox Churches \u2013 into a unitary single deity<\/span><\/strong>; however, not of the Hebrew Yahweh\/Jehovah of the Old Testament<\/em>, but in the human person of Jesus Christ, manifesting in the human flesh Jehovah Himself<\/span><\/strong>, who thus in total fusion, becomes one with his only begotten son \u2013 God made into Man, as Jesus Christ himself claimed to being the son of Man!\u00a0 Although all the categories of evangelical churches (Methodist, Baptist, Charismatic, Born- Again Christian, Seven-Day Adventist<\/em> etc. including the progenitor of them all, Luther himself) skirted around this New Testament <\/em>concept, but none with the clarity, courage, and distinction of Swedenborg.\u00a0\u00a0 Today, ironically, the whole lot of the Protestant- qualified churches owe it unwittingly<\/span><\/strong> to Emanuel Swedenborg their doctrinal shift of paradigm <\/span><\/strong>from the focus on the Judaic Yahweh to a total focus on Jesus Christ<\/strong> as their divine saviour, sustaining unconditional infinite love for all people of all shapes and colours<\/span><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

I had to catch my own breath at the Professor\u2019s breathless, seamless, radical re-interpretations of the scholarly facts.\u00a0\u00a0 It remains to confirm that at the time of his public lecture for the Swedenborg Society<\/em>, the Professor had head-hunted a massively multi-talented young man Stephen McNeilly<\/strong>, painter\/graphic designer, running the society\u2019s bookshop.\u00a0 Supported by Stephen\u2019s help, Professor Pilikian had organized single-handedly a mini-festival to glorify Swedenborg, thus creating a paradigm and a blue-print for today\u2019s exciting activities administered by Mr. McNeilly himself, as the most efficient and modernist Executive Director of the Swedenborg Society<\/em>, without whose \u2018discovery\u2019 by Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian, the Society may never have rejuvenated from its natural historical fatigue and eventual fade-out.<\/p>\n

The Professor had invited the Opera-Singer Khatchatur Pilikian (his brother, sometime soloist of RAI<\/em> \u2013 the Italian State Radio and Television<\/em>) to participate with a mini-concert; last but not least, the Professor had commissioned an oil-painting of Swedenborg\u2019s Portrait<\/em> for the occasion, from the Republic of Armenia\u2019s great painter, Artour Oshakantsi (resident in London), all of which feature in this excellent documentary.<\/p>\n

Although now retired, the Historian of the Society, Mr. Richard Lines, a Council Member and a distinguished solicitor had never wavered in his support of Professor Pilikian\u2019s choice of Mr. McNeilly as today\u2019s Supremo<\/em> of the Society.\u00a0 Equally supportive against all odds were Mr. John Cunningham (Vice President), Dr. David Lister (Chairman), and Mr. Patrick Johnson (Trustee).<\/p>\n

London, September, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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See YouTube Video Links Below; <\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=Kdpw88fDY54<\/a> part 1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=BSGtENXu0Pg<\/a> part 2<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=HZ1zF13gP64<\/a> part 3<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=8oshjG6UoJY<\/a> part 4<\/p>\n

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