One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem
   church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and
   religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg
   claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the
   opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus
   Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is
   the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the
   Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw
   the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.