sect of christianity. He was a contemporary of Newton. Modern science then was still at the nascent stage. Let me remind comrades here, Issac Newton, great scientist he was, practised various forms of occultism like alchemy, numerology..

I first came across his name when I took a course on religions.  A few days ago, someone mentioned him at another forum. I would say he was a better candidate of formulating 'Mormonism' than Joseph Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg