The author's aim in this volume was to outline the main features of Swedenborg's views and teachings in a popular form. Mr. Hodgetts ventures to hope that a perusal of these pages may stimulate the reader to go to the fountainhead and prosecute further researches for himself in the directions most interesting individually to him. Contents: introduction, the man and his work; life and creation; origin of evil; ethics; sex; governance of the world; revelation; prayer; sacraments; church; soul; hereafter; godhead.