*** Sadhu Sundar Singh -- A mystic who believed in universalism. He
experienced visions in states of ecstasy 8-10 times each month.
However bad and evil-living a man may be, there is in man's nature a
divine spark ... this spark of the divine is never extinguished ... If
this divine spark or element cannot be destroyed, then we can never be
hopeless for any sinner... The Creator Himself will not destroy it
(man's soul)... even though many wander and go astray in the end, they
will return to Him in Whose image they have been created; for this is
their final destination. (from his book, Meditations on Various Aspects
of the Spiritual Life in the chapter "Finally All Men Will Return to
God)
Strangely enough, Sundar Singh’s visions of wandering souls in
the spirit world and heavenly spheres also included contact with a dead
mystic and seer named Emanuel Swedenborg:
“I saw him several times some
years ago, but I did not know his earthly name. His name in the
spiritual world is quite different just according to his high position
or office and most beautiful character.” [ Reprinted in The
Helper (January 2, 1929), p. 5.]
*** Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) -- was a Swedish scientist,
philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a
prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six
he entered into a spiritual phase, in which he experienced dreams and
visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he
was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform
Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that
from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with
angels, demons, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his
life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best
known was Heaven and Hell (1758),[4] and several unpublished
theological works. [21]
Not only was Swedenborg a seer and a medium, he was also one of the
forerunners to modern spiritualism. Swedenborg believed that he was the
only one able to shed light on the true meaning of the Bible, with the
help of Angels. This is who Sundar Singh had contact with in the spirit
world. [Is Todd Bentley walking in the footsteps of mystics and seers?
by sheepyweepy.wordpress.com]
*** E.W. Kenyon
*** William Branham
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