Science Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedenborg is doing something audaciously engineering-minded with a theological claim: he treats creation not as a sentimental origin story, but as a designed system whose load-bearing element arrives last. “Man was last created” isn’t a footnote in Genesis; it’s his proof of concept. In his logic, the sequence is structural. Earlier things exist in order to support what comes after, the way scaffolding exists for a building that only makes sense once it’s complete.

The intent is to elevate humanity without resorting to simple flattery. “Basis” sounds humble, almost material, but it’s a power move: if heaven is founded on the human race, then spiritual reality is not floating above us; it is anchored in us. Swedenborg’s subtext is anti-escapist. The divine isn’t an exit from human mess, history, and psychology; it depends on them. That’s a radical pivot away from forms of religion that treat earthly life as mere prep work for a truer realm.

Context matters: Swedenborg was a respected scientist before his visionary phase, and this sentence reads like the bridge between those identities. He imports a late-17th/early-18th century confidence in ordered systems into metaphysics: teleology as architecture, not mystery. There’s also an implicit defense of his broader project (that the spiritual world corresponds to the natural one). If the last-created is the “basis,” then the visible, human level is not the least of reality but its foundation, the place where the whole cosmic blueprint finally cashes out.