Light in my Darkness by Helen Keller7/5/2023 Swedenborgiansim, with its concepts of a universal spiritual reality and brotherhood, a loving god, and an afterlife in which no one would suffer from limitations and handicaps, appealed to Helen. "Emanuel Swedenborg's message has been my strongest incitement to overcome limitations," she proclaims. Helen Keller traces her spiritual development, revealing her mystical, ecstatic aspect, in this revised and expanded edition of her spiritual autobiography. This new edition includes a foreword by Dorothy Herrmann, author of the acclaimed Helen Keller: A Life, and a new chapter, ∾pilogue: My Luminous Universe. Writing that her first reading of Emanuel Swedenborg at age fourteen gave her truths that were to my faculties what light, color and music are to the eye and ear, she explains how Swedenborgs works sustained her throughout her life. Helen Keller, Time Magazines woman of the century, reveals her mystical side in this best-selling spiritual autobiography. Enjoy a well-done editing job which provides a smooth assembly of Keller's thoughts. Originally published as My Religion in 1927, this Helen Keller classic has been revised and edited, in keeping with Keller's original wishes, by Ray Silverman, providing a strong blend of her original title and her autobiography, essays, letters and lectures in an integrated volume considering her religious values and reflections.
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