It sounds like things look more hopeful for you, now that you’ve found your way “out.” You might find the website

http://www.freedomchurchnetwork.com/

of interest, with its emphasis on freedom.

My personal goal is to try to come out the other side, valuing the remarkable teachings of the Second Advent while avoiding/rejecting past misintreptations of it by various individauls and organizations with an axe to grind or political power to accumulate.

I look forward to seeing that reference number in Conjugial Love, which I wasn’t aware of.

Christianity is not about intellectual theories, theological dogmas, or doctrinal knowledge. God’s answers are always simple and God’s answers always work. So, far from being complicated, Christianity is about every person’s opportunity for a personal connection with Jesus and the blessings that brings.

Swedenborg was a Christian and the books that resulted from his years of conversations with Jesus were written to empower change and reformation in the Christian world and beyond.

I too was troubled for some time with Swedenborgs writings on other worlds.
Recently water was found on our moon. Where there is water there is, was or will be life.
More to the point is the question about there being no technology elsewhere in the Universe.
Swedenborg says that there are no sciences. That does not mean that people can not fashion cloth from nature or make simple tools for farming etc.
Swedenborg means that as here on earth in simple societies we all make things that are useful but we don’t make a science out of it. We are content that we have fashioned a cup from clay and hardened it with fire. Now we can drink water from it. We do not need to go scientific and make a complicated and decorated cup. It will not make the water taste any better.
Science itself recognises that the known Universe is immense. To think for one second that we are the only life in the Universe is utter arrogance and ignorance of the first order.
Those who question Swedenborg for not mentioning other planets like Neptune should remember that well over two hundred years ago Swedenborg wrote that the moon had no atmosphere. It is also more than possible that Our Lord creates new life on new planets as old planets die, much like people on our earth move to new areas when the trees and soil of their current location become less and of poor quality.
The comments about ET life are written as if they are fact. Somebody write a book or a web site publishes its opinions and suddenly people say it must be true and factual. That American defence companies got their technology from downed alien spacecraft is an insult to the people who invented these new technologies and is truly absurd. There are no aliens visiting Earth.
In other worlds people are closer to God and therefore do not feel the need to create sciences.
Much like a Buddist monk throwing away his material goods in order to live free of their influences and temptations. Just because he does that does not mean that he is stupid or crazy. Quite the opposite he is actually more intelligent than those who covet mere material things rather than concentrating on God and the rest of their eternity.
Life on Earth is not what life is about. Indeed one could argue that life doesn’t begin until death. For it is then that we find our eternal home.

Having studied the Bible for the past 30 years and brought up in Bible churches prior to that for another 15 years and my mother a Bible graduate of Moody Bible Institute (with honors); I found some of his writings interesting; ………….but, like the works of Joseph Smith, or Ellen G. White……….a person must make careful comparison to Hebrew Biblical References to the works of these people and the Scriptures statements that seem to align themselves to their writings. What it boils down to is a very very careful and prayerful consideration of the authors topics and material written and the Truth of Biblical Word. A person can not say Nay or Yeah as to whether these people were not truly divinely given special privileges or information; where the nominal believer has never had such experience. Only God knows the true nature of a persons heart and their true thirst for wisdom from God. Wherein the average believer may false judge or evaluate that persons experience upon which they relay to others, in their elation of having wisdom to share, they write down to pass on to others the knowledge so as to “teach” others.

In the Bible in Jude Malachi the angel darned not to bring an accusation against Satan, but said; “The Lord Rebuke You Satan!” In other words, leave the judging up to God and be careful to compare scripture to scripture and Word to Word and Truth to Truth. We are all but human and none of us perfect, yet even the most lowely and sinful can be lifted up by God to attain unto Holy Things in a Personal and devoted relationship. Who are each one of us to judge another just because we have not had the same experiences.