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Swedenborg’s "World of Spirits" functions identically to the mithal . It is not a place of mere fantasy, but a concrete psycho-spiritual geography where thoughts and affections take on visible, objective forms. In both systems, this realm is where the soul "awakens" after death, finding itself in a landscape that reflects its own interior state. Correspondence and Ta’wil

The intersection of Emanuel Swedenborg’s visionary theology and Esoteric Islam—particularly the concepts found in Sufism and Isma’ili theosophy—represents one of the most compelling cross-cultural resonances in the history of mysticism. While Swedenborg was an 18th-century Swedish scientist-turned-seer and the masters of Islamic esotericism (such as Ibn ‘Arabi or Mulla Sadra) operated in a vastly different linguistic and cultural milieu, their structural understanding of reality is strikingly congruent. The Mundus Imaginalis and the World of Spirits Swedenborg & Esoteric Islam (Swedenborg Studies)

The "Swedenborgian-Islamic" connection suggests that mystical experiences, when stripped of their specific dogmatic labels, point toward a universal "topography of the soul." Whether through Swedenborg’s descriptions of the New Jerusalem or the Sufi descriptions of the celestial Earth of Hurqalya, both traditions invite the individual to move beyond the sensory world and recognize that the "real" is found within. objective forms. In both systems