it seems that Goethe's words about this material world being
a "pflanzschule für eine Welt von Geistern" (a school/nursery for a
world of spirits) was influenced, at least in choice of words, by Swedenborg.
that seems to me now quite dismaying, as since I have long wanted to find a greater
history of this "idea" from both before and after Goethe, finding it
may "originate" in Swedenborg is like learning one need look for the
source of a river in the clouds.
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