Description of the Course
1.         The Concept of the Human Form as universal in Creation and in Society. The History of this Concept
2.         The Philosophy of the Divine Human, as the Cornerstone of New Church thought.
3.         Application of this Philosophy to the Spiritual World. Study of the various Kingdoms of the Human Body, and the corresponding Provinces of the Grand Man.
4.         The Parallelism and Relation between Physiological and Mental Processes.

Outline of the Course

PART ONE

The Philosophy of the Human Form

Chapter I.        Swedengorg’s Announcement of the Doctrine of the Grand Man.

Chapter II.      History of the Doctrine of the GRand Man, traced from Myth and Philosophy.

Chapter III.     God as Man:

1. The Divine Human Form before Creation.

2.  The Divine Human before Incarnation.

3.  The Divine Human after Incarnation.

4.  The Divine Human after Glorification.

5.  The Divine Human as the Word.

Chapter IV.    The Human Form Universal in Creation.

Chapter V.     Man a Microcosm.

Chapter VI.    The Human Form in the Collective:

1.  Origin of society by specialization of uses.

2.  Plurality increases the perfection of uses.

3.  Society the greater form of man.

4.  Lack of absolute truth in the sociological field

5.  Plato's concept of Society as a human form.

6.  Paul's concept of the Church as a Divine Body.

7.  Hobbes' parallels of the social functions and the human body.

 

Chapter VII.    The Essential Uses of Society, as revealed in the Writings of the New Church.

Chapter VIII.    The Grand Man:

1.  As the Body of God.

2.  As the Heavens and the Church.

3.  As the Kingdom of Uses.

4.  As composed of Spirits and Men.

5.  As the World of Spirits.

6.  As Individual Societits.

Chapter IX.    Origin and Derivation of the Human Form:

1.  Origin from the Lord.

2.  The Soul.

3.  Formation of the Body.

4.  Relation of Soul and Body.

5.  Media of Formation.

6.  Use Commands the Form.

7.  Primitive Frm of Man.

8.  Degrees of the Soul.

 

Chapter X.    Knowledge Concerning the Correspondences of the Human Body.

1.  By God.

2   By Angels.

3.  By Spirits.

4.  By Swedenborg.

 

Chapter XI.    "Correspondence"; Definitions of all possible relationships by Correspondence.

Chapter XII.    General Divisions of the Human Body.

1.  External.

2.  Internal.

3.  Functional.

        [  Note:  The author seems to have reorganized this chapter as follows:

A.    Distinction of the natural "body" from the spiritual parts of man

B.    Distinction of the natural body.

C.    Functional distinctions of the natural body.

D.    Other functional distinctions of the natural body.

E.    Essential distinctions of the natural body.

F.    As to visceral distinctions of the body.

G.   As to classes of cellular constituents of body tissues.

H.    As to formation of body tissues and organs.  

I.      As to condition of substances.  ]

 

Chapter XIII.    The Four General Kingdoms of the Body.

Chapter XIV    General Correspondences of the Body.

[Table of General Series of Correspondences of the Human Body]

PART TWO

Correspondences of the Parts, Organs, and Viscera of the Human Gody

Chapter I.    The Ultimates of the Body.

1.  Bones.

2.  Skin and Hair.

3.  Tendons and Muscles.

Chapter II.     The Kingdom of the Abdominal Viscera, and of the Chyle.

Chapter III.    The Kingdom of the Thorax, and of the Blood.

Chapter IV.    The Kingdom of the Head.

Chapter V.     The Kingdom of Generation.

Chapter VI.    The Correspondences of the Five Senses; especially of Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Touch.

PART THREE

Mental Corresponences

Chapter I       Paralles of Operation in Body and mind  National Functions.

Chapter II.    Correspondence of Spirits to Mental Planes.

Chapter III.   The Correspondent Processes of Generation and REgeneration.

PART FOUR

Situation in the Spiritual World

Chapter I.   Apppearance of the Spiritual World:

1.  To Novitiates.

2.   To Spirits and Angels.

3.   To Swedenborg

 

Chapter II.  Various Bases of Phenomenal Relations:

1.   Spaces and Times in the Spiritual World.

2.   Dirctions and Quarters.

3.   Planes and Provinces.

4.   Exceptional Phenomena, true and false.

 

PART FIVE

The Grand Monster

Chapter I.    The History of the Doctrine of a Personal Devel.

Chapter II.    The Doctrine of the Grand Monster.

End of Prepages