Sunday, June 6, 2010

Lecter series - unified analysis - part 14: Influences on Swedenborg

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Emanuel Swedenborg's crypt in Uppsala Cathedral. [Image from the Wikipedia 'Emanuel Swedenborg' page; Swedenborg's grave, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.]


According to Martin Lamm's Emanuel Swedenborg: The Development of His Thought, Swedenborg was influenced by, among other people, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, and Plotinus (author of the Enneads).[a] All of these have come into play at various places in the analyses of the individual Lecter movies.

William Blake, the creator of the Great Red Dragon paintings, was profoundly influenced by some of the ideas of Swedenborg.[b]


a. Lamm, Martin. Emanuel Swedenborg: The Development of His Thought. Trans. Thomas Spiers and Anders Hallengren. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, 2000.
b. 'William Blake'. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2015. Web. 17 Sep. 2015. URL = http://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake.

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