Jonathan Bayley

New Church Worthies, Or, Early but Little-known Disciples of the Lord Jonathan Bayley

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... XXV. DR. IMMANUEL TAFEL AND GUSTAV WERNER. The New Church in Germany and Switzerland. 95?HE earliest Germans that we know to have vs/ become interested in the spiritual experiences of Swedenborg were Heinric Jung Stilling, counsellor of the Grand Duke of Baden, and Oettinger of Murrhard; the latter an inhabitant of the kingdom of Wurtemburg, which also gave to the New Church, Dr. Immanuel Tafel, the uncle of the present Dr. Rudolf S. Tafel, of Camden Road, London. Dr. Oettinger was really a contemporary of Swedenborg, and received several letters from him. Both these learned and excellent men fully received the testimony of Swedenborg as to the Facts Of His Seership, and his relations of what he saw and heard in his intercourse with the inner and eternal world; but they do not seem to have made much progress in the study of the Arcana, and the perception of the Spiritual Sense Of The Word, or the states and progress of the RegeNerate Life. Oettinger wrote a book called--Earthly And Heavenly Philosophy Of SweDenborg And Others: and Stilling published a work in two volumes entitled Spiritual Scenes In The World Of Spirits. The chief use of these distinguished and early students, was to hand on the knowledge of the truth they were able to receive, and awaken others. We have referred to Stilling as the one whose commendation of Swedenborg induced Oberlin to read and receive the new information concerning Heaven, and now we have to mention that in Dr. Immanuel Tafel, whose piety was much strengthened and directed by reading Stilling, a much more potent and diligent worker in the Lord's vineyard was awakened in Germany; one of those brave and holy souls, true apostolic men, who affect a nation, or an age. Having had much to do with Dr. Tafel during his life, hav...