Masterful handling of the materiality of language, thus appearing to be "spiritual"—the naturalist. Disdainful of re-organizing language dialectically like Hoelderlin—the artist. Novalis, only similar to Swedenborg, but fundamentally not Swedenborg, since the authenticity of his "divine experience" is questionable, like every other "spiritual" poets. His imagination strives to imitate the Spiritual. He didn't see Sophie, he made himself feels like see Sophie, by will and reason.
However, the facts about heaven and hell presented by the genuine spiritual agent, Swedenborg, lack an aesthetic dimension, much like the battles of the gods in prehistoric times, which are recorded in mythology as a form of poetry that lacks aesthetic appeal for an atheist-artist. They're all in the realm of the history, heaven and hell changes all the time, in a way. The artistic descriptions required by art are abandoned by every agent that has ever existed, more or less, resulting in a …
