Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scripture or Word of the Lord Unfolded, Beginning with the Book of Genesis

Arcana Colestia was the first and most comprehensive theological work published by Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The body of this multivolume work is a verse-by-verse commentary on the inner spiritual meaning of Genesis and Exodus, but Swedenborg also includes descriptions of heaven and hell gleaned from his spiritual experiences. Volume 2 deals specifically with Genesis 10-17, interspersed with Swedenborg's writings about the spirituality of the most ancient people on earth; the structure of heaven; the lives of angels; holy scripture; visions and dreams; and the Last Judgment.

This edition is a reprint, with revisions, of a 1905 translation by John Clowes, edited by John Faulkner Potts.