My research for years was in the opposite direction from Swedenborg, toward the microscopic designs of life. His diagrams are strongly reminiscent of cross-sectional views in cytology: centrosomes, microfilaments, cilia, flagella, and the like. These structures play essential roles in reproduction, locomotion, intracellular transport, and the conversion of light to chemical impulses in photoreceptors of our retina, to list a few. ~webolife
That is very exciting that you are studying cytology, webolife. It does seem that the farther our instruments go and the more we can see and understand of cellular processes, the more it all either matches or far, far surpasses our own technology. How is it that a single cell is manipulating atoms to maintain a charge within its walls, or utilizing finely tuned antennae, or performing mysterious feats of biomineralization -- which may result in minerals which have different isotopes than were used originally? At a time when life is being explored at submicroscopic levels, it appears to me that a
certain theory, which shall remain
unnamed, ill-prepares people to see or to understand or to appreciate the complexity and exquisite structure of daily cellular life. I am glad you are giving these subjects your attention. It makes me wonder what the most extraordinary aspect of cytology you have found is, if you had to choose. (:
Swedenborg's atomic structures, because of their internal motion, allow for atomic re-arrangements, progressions, and even the motion of the larger bodies they make up. I thought you would probably not like this aspect of his model, but I had to include Emanuel Swedenborg's finite and elementary particles at this point because you asked why the planets would not be flung away from the sun, but would come into the orbital paths which are observed. The answer was because they essentially gain weight as they age, and because the vortex of the sun and the vortex of the planet must come into equilibrium. (Any one can read the original to check.)
In modern terms, I think he was talking about the ubiquitous quality of spin -- his vortical motion -- at both the atomic and astronomical scales. There is a wonderful quote in The Virtue of Heresy which says that
sooner or later, scientists are going to realize that wherever there is spin, there is electricity.*
*(A paraphrase, apologies to HIlton Ratcliff.)
“Oh for shame, how these mortals put the blame upon us gods, for they say evils come from us, when it is they rather who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given…”
~Homer