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Thank you for your post! That is fascinating. I had no idea she became a Swedenborgian.

You're welcome. You wouldn't want that to be the only link on Swedenborgianism though, would you? Here are three more, with a Christian perspective on Swedenborg, one whose lies and lying experiences testify that "New Age" is very old (in the later two linked pages one may wish to perform a "search" for "Swedenborg").

http://www.carm.org/list/swedenborg.htm
http://www.cornerstonemag.com/pages/show_page.asp?136
http://www.cornerstonemag.com/pages/show_page.asp?187

One more point. Interesting how so many of these types of religions are characterized by a spirit guide appearing to the founder. It sounds like it may be leading up to a Maitreya. That would comport with the prophesy leading up to the tribulation described in Revelation:

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
[Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. - 2 Thessalonians 2:6-12

Jeepers...