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CurrentThe Swedenborg Foundation is the vibrant home to the works of the brilliant, eighteenth-century genius, polymath, and spiritual world explorer, Emanuel Swedenborg. Established in 1849, the Foundation evolved over two centuries to preserve, translate, publish and promote the life-guiding principles of this spiritual teacher. Originally founded as a small press to publish his voluminous works (14,000 pages published in Latin, plus another 28,000 in manuscript), the Swedenborg Foundation has transformed itself over the past decade.In addition to its impressive library of scholarly and related books, the Foundation has revolutionized the availability and delivery of Swedenborg’s material. Its popular and rapidly growing “Off The Left Eye” YouTube channel has 30 million views of its nearly 1,000 professionally produced videos. Underpinning this material is the most ambitious and rigorous translation of Swedenborg’s works, the New Century Edition, or NCE, by some of the most brilliant Latin and Swedenborgian scholars in the world.The Foundation’s positive impact on millions of lives through its online presence, now equals its unparalleled value for preserving this global treasure. Swedenborg impacted some of the most influential thinkers of our time. These include, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson, DT Suzuki, Helen Keller, John Chapman, Carl Jung, Dale Carnegie, and Elizabeth Browning. The Foundation’s recent transformation rivals that of Swedenborg himself. From his mastery as a mathematician, geologist, metallurgist, mineralogist, crystallographer, anatomist, botanist, chemist, physicist, cosmologist, astronomer, author, inventor, legislator, mining engineer, economist, editor, poet, and musician, emerged this most prolific and profound conveyor of spiritual insights. The Foundation has now followed his lead, emerging as one of the most useful sources of life-help in the world, built on the foundation of its ongoing world-class, scholarly work.