Inside Off The Left Eye

The Latin Playground is a new upcoming production from the Swedenborg Foundation. New episodes coming in January, 2025. In this video, host Chelsea Odhner talks to translator Jonathan Rose, the Series Editor of the New Century Edition about the upcoming series.  The Latin Playground is a new way to engage with Swedenborg's writings. Swedenborg wrote in Neo-Latin. At the Swedenborg Foundation, we translate the spiritual insights he wrote down into modern, accessible English in our New Century Edition of Swedenborg's theological works, but something new happens when you interface with the Latin itself. No Latin skills necessary!  In the Latin Playground, we get to learn alongside Jonathan Rose as we delve into the spiritual realities Swedenborg was trying to put into words. The Swedenborg Foundation is a non-profit organization that depends on donations to continue its work of making Swedenborg's ideas accessible. Consider giving at swedenborg.com/donate to the Jonathan S. Rose Translation Fund to help us in our mission. Look for the Latin Playground wherever you listen to podcasts. 

We are excited to share a new podcast offering: the Latin Playground! Alongside translator Jonathan Rose, we delve into the nature of language, the nuances of Neo-Latin, and the spiritual experiences of the scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Search the Latin Playground wherever you listen to podcasts to learn with us as we explore the inextricable link between spiritual revelation and grammar.  New episodes coming in January, 2025! 

Chelsea shares an announcement about the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast, as well as gratitude to our listeners. Secrets of Heaven volumes 3 and 4 are now available! To read the latest publications on which Dr. Jonathan Rose and his team have been working so hard, follow these links: https://swedenborg.com/product/secrets-heaven-3-nce/ https://swedenborg.com/product/secrets-heaven-4-nce/ And for a whole library of books and videos to dig into, go to our two websites: www.swedenborg.com and www.offthelefteye.com Or check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/offthelefteye If you'd like to support our ongoing efforts in translation, publication, and content production, go to https://www.offthelefteye.com/donate/

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven: 2798:2 It is also known that he was born to the Virgin Mary, but this was a birth like that of any other person. When he was born again—in other words, was made divine—it was from Jehovah, who was in him and who was the very essence of his life. The uniting of his divine and human natures was a mutual, reciprocal process, so that he united his divine nature with his human nature and his human nature with his divine.  2894 Moreover, since the Word means the Lord’s divine humanity, it means all the truth that tells of and comes from him, in his kingdom in the heavens and in his church on earth. That is why it says that in him was life, the life was the light of humankind, and the light appears in the darkness. 3441:1-2 Because of Abraham my servant means from the Lord’s divine humanity. This can be seen from the representation of Abraham as the Lord’s divinity and also as his divine humanity (discussed in §§2833, 2836, 3251) and from the symbolism of my servant, where it describes the Lord, as his divine humanity. Not that his divine humanity is a servant, because it too is Jehovah (1736, 2156, 2329, 2921, 3023, 3035), but that the Lord served the human race through it. By it we are saved, as we never could have been had the Lord not united his humanity with his divinity, enabling us to mentally gaze on and worship his human side and in this way approach his divine side. Our union with divinity itself, called the Father, takes place through the divine humanity, called the Son. So it takes place through the Lord, whom spiritual people take to mean his humanity but heavenly people take to mean divinity itself. Clearly, then, the Lord’s divine humanity is called a servant because it serves his divinity by providing us with access to it and because it serves the human race by saving us. That is what Abraham my servant symbolizes. . . .