Arcana Colestia was the first and most comprehensive theological work published by Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Volume 1 is a verse-by-verse commentary on the inner meaning of Genesis 1-9, interspersed with Swedenborg's descriptions of how the soul transitions from our world to afterlife and the nature of heaven and hell. This edition is a reprint, with revisions, of a 1905 translation by John Clowes, edited by John Faulkner Potts.