Excerpt from Dante and Swedenborg: With Other Essays on the New Renaissance To this question no answer could be given but by comparing the visions of Dante with something that could be accepted as a standard of truth on these same subjects, and such a standard could only be found in Revelation. But, as Revelation, beyond the bare indications of a few broad, general truths on the subject of the judgment and heaven and hell, has been believed to contain no particulars regarding the life after death, therefore there has been for the Christian Church no means of estimating the amount of actual truth in Dante's description of heaven, purgatory, and hell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.