| Emanuel Swedenborg's Scissor-Glasses | |
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Origin |
Emanuel Swedenborg |
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Type |
Scissor-Glasses |
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Effects |
Causes visions of heaven and hell |
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Downsides |
Induces wondrous terror |
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Activation |
Wearing |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
716514-8961 |
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Shelf |
151745-6676-355 |
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Date of Collection |
March 7, 1926 |
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Origin[]
An inventor and scientist turned mystic-philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg entered a spiritual reevaluation when he began to have dreams and visions during Easter is his early 50s. Although not the first time to ponder and experience the meaning of dreamlike trances and such, this moment led Swedenborg to change his entire insights on life.
Trying to piece together his conversations with God, messengers, demons and other spiritual entities, he wrote the text “Heaven and Hell” to explain his revolutionary knowledge. Swedenborg believed the day of Final Judgment, where all people would be judged by their actions, had already passed in the spirit realm, situated exactly halfway between heaven and hell. He also considered himself to be an avatar for the second appearance of Christ and to have conversed with the representative spirits of planets from this solar system and beyond.
After his revelation, several incidents of newfound psychic ability occurred, including sensing a fire hundreds of kilometers away and knowing a personal secret between the Swedish queen and her deceased brother.
Effects[]
When worn individually, one lens shows what the surrounding area would look like in hell and in the other the, same space occupied in heaven. Although they normally tend to show a Christian modeled depiction, other versions do briefly appear when the user looks out of the corner of their eye. Together, they show both a mixture of heaven and hell, producing awe and terror simultaneously within the wearer.