De Hemelsche Leer Fascicles
The “Fascicles” contain English translations of parts of the Dutch Magazine De Hemelsche Leer (The Heavenly Doctrine). These translations were divided into Seven Fascicles and published in Three Volumes.

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 In January 1930, Ernst Pfeiffer (1890-1979), the Dutch General Church minister in the Hague, started a Dutch magazine entitled De Hemelsche Leer (The Heavenly Doctrine). The three leading theses propounded in "De Hemelsche Leer" were:

1. The Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg are the Third Testament of the Word of the Lord. The DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE must be applied to the three Testaments alike.
2. The Latin Word without Doctrine is as a candlestick without light, and those who read the Latin Word without Doctrine, or who do not acquire for themselves a Doctrine from the Latin Word, are in darkness as to all truth (cf. S. S. 50-61).
3. The genuine Doctrine of the Church is spiritual out of celestial origin, but not out of rational origin. The Lord is that Doctrine itself (cf. A. C. 2496, 2497, 2510, 2516, 2533, 2859; A. E. 19).

The monthly magazine De Hemelsche Leer was written in Dutch, since this was the native language of The First Dutch Society of the General Church of the New Jerusalem in the European country, The Netherlands. 

Beginning in 1931, doctrinal papers extracted from the published Dutch magazine De Hemelsche Leer (in print from 1930 through 1936) were translated into English and published through the generosity of the Rev. Theodore Pitcairn. The English translation of parts of De Hemelsche Leer were divided into seven fascicles and published in a three volume set:

Volume One  - Containing the First Fascicle and Second Fascicles
First Fascicle:        (PDF)       (View on webpage)
Second Fascicle:   (PDF)       (View on webpage)

Volume Two  - Containing the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Fascicles
Third Fascicle:        (PDF)       (View on webpage coming soon)
Fourth Fascicle:      (PDF)       (View on webpage coming soon)
Fifth Fascicle:         (PDF)       (View on webpage coming soon)
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Volume Three - Containing the Sixth and Seventh Fascicles
Sixth Fascicle:        (PDF)       (View on webpage)
Seventh Fascicle*: (PDF)       (View on webpage)

(*NOTE: In the last issue, the name of the Church on the title page was changed to The Lord’s New Church which is Nova Hierosolyma.

The publication of these extracts from De Hemelsche Leer gave English-speaking members of the General Church the opportunity to read for themselves what had become part of the natural speech and thought for many in the Dutch Society. The title page of the English version explains the purpose of the magazine:

DE HEMELSCHE LEER
 
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

DEVOTED TO THE DOCTRINE OF GENUINE TRUTH
 
OUT OF THE LATIN WORD REVEALED FROM THE LORD


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ORGAN OF THE GENERAL CHURCH
 
OF THE NEW JERUSALEM IN HOLLAND