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There is An Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World, by Candace Frazee. Bunny House Books, Pasadena, California. 2008

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Book Review:
Swedenborgianism's Answer Lady
Saturday, March, 7, 2009
by Cantara Christopher
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"As Swedenborgianism, with all its branches, has never had a huge number of adherents (probably no more than 30-50,000 throughout the world at one time), it’s not one of the world’s best-known religions, but its theology, as outlined by Swedenborg, is rich and deep and immensely rewarding to explore. His most famous book, Heaven and Hell (full title: Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen) can be read as a work of sustained imagery and poetry—not unlike the Bhagavad Gita—as can his other works: Heavenly Secrets, Conjugial Love, and the dozens more he wrote in Latin. All have been laboriously and lovingly translated into several languages by centuries of scholars.

For those who would like to sample this eye-opening interpretation of Christianity / humanity’s relationship with God and heaven—in particular the heavenly nature of marriage—Candace has published There Is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World (available at her website). It’s a friendly, sensible, at times humorous compilation of her newsletters and recounts of her visits to Swedenborgian landmarks, complete with photos, as well as a warm memoir of her life growing up in a Canadian household of Swedenborgians, her early life as a showgirl (catch a glimpse of her the next time the classic “Polynesiantown” sketch on SCTV comes around), her girlhood as a student in the Swedenborgian enclave of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and her current life as curator of the delightful Bunny Museum, the Guinness Record-making collection in the home she shares in Pasadena, California with her husband / Swedenborgian soulmate, Steve Lubanski.

To get an idea of how far-reaching Swedenborg’s influence has been, click here to glance at the names of just a few hundred of the eminent men and women in history, and in our times, who have either been brought up in the teachings of Swedenborg or found his teachings later in life. (List courtesy of Candace—it’s in her book.) Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the list, as is Johnny Appleseed, Robert Frost, Bill Wilson the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Walt Whitman, Henry James Sr. and his son William James, Norman Vincent Peale, Walt Whitman, Dr Mehmet Oz (of Oprah fame)..."

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