Distinct visitor of heaven and hell, theosophist and polymath, inventor of the decimal system, Emanuel Swedenborg was a universal genius. In 1743, in a London tavern, he had a misty vision of a room with a changing floor, an entity present dictating his teachings. This reasoned mystical quest led him to converse with angels and the dead, "The vision lasted indefinitely. That very night the eyes of my inner man were opened. They were made fit to see into the heavens, into the spirit world and into the underworld. From that day on, I abandoned the study of worldly sciences and devoted myself to spiritual things in accordance with what the Lord commanded me to write."

Author of a formidable treatise on the brain, his sanity would be suspected of hallucinatory schizophrenia. So, the exceptional brain has become a pair of shoehorns, we find on the walls Julian's weapons of war, art and grotesque figure-trophies. As our vision tightens on the ancient loggias, the framing of a machine with cosmic cogs, by a Centaur and a Minotaur, becomes clear. Musical machinery of the Swedenborg vessel, towards its celestial metamorphosis.

The cycle closes, the lemon of Manet/Grissom reappears under the shape of Saturn; E.S. joins the sixth planet. "I love the hunt for the hunt's sake, and there are few hunts more engaging and diverse than the hunt for the Swedenborg mystery." Paul Valéry, of the French Academy.

Swedenborg is a dynamic Nifty with two state changes - day and night. The Nifty will change at 6:00AM and 6:00PM. There is NO purchase limit per account.

Open Edition will be available to purchase for 1 hour only from 6:30PM to 7:30PM ET