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The Book of Edda Called Voluspa

April 18, 2010

In The Book of Edda Called Voluspa, homeopath James John Garth Wilkinson 1812 – 1899 uses Emanuel Swedenborg’s Doctrine of Correspondence to translate this famous Norse text in 1897, two years before he died, after forty three years of research and having to learn another three languages to translate it!


Though the text is dense, this rugged drama from prehistory is a ’scientific analysis of a theological work’ (preface), and tells a remarkably modern story.

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa_ records the prophecy of the Seer Vala as she explains the maturation of Humanity from the original Golden Age, through Ragnarok (Armageddon), to the dawning of the new Golden Age, expounding the Theory of Gaia and the modern Green Movement, and proving itself to be the source of J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy and so much else.

The Book of Edda Called Voluspa explains how Material Science with all its magic (Spin) is addicted to the ‘magical arts’ which cultivate hypnotic trances and dogma (Spin), in alliance with the ‘Great Harlot’ Gullveig (finance), revealing Dominant Man’s lust for dominion over the things of spirit, and thus become the precursor to Ragnarok (Armageddon) which will eventually lead to the new Golden Age.



The translation by James John Garth Wilkinson of _The Book of Edda Called Voluspa_ is based on a transcription by Saemundar Edda Hins Frodha (?1055-1133), translated and published by Theodor Mobius (?-?) in Leipsig in 1860 (Theodor Möbius, Edda saemundar hins fród?a, (Hinrichs, 1860), using the Key of Emanuel Swedenborg’s Doctrine of Correspondence to unlock the secrets contained therein. This method exposes the soul to bring it alive (preface).





_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa (the prophecy of the Seer Vala) outlines this story: _

The Prophetess Vala addresses her prophecy to all men (Valfather), and her mind memory is of the Jotunheim (Primordial Universal forces - Satan - self made gods) who raised her.


Then three maids arrived from Jotunheim (one of the nine worlds), followed by three Aesir arrived from Ask (Ash) and Embla (Elm) (other worlds in the nine worlds - Odin (spirit - god of intellect), Haenir (soul - god of water) and Lodur (Loki - blood - god of fire), and another three maidens arrived  from the sea.




James John Garth Wilkinson applies the key of Emanuel Swedenborg’s Doctrine of Correspondence to translate this famous Norse text:

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 18- 25

The Three Firsts:



Golden Age = beginning of Life in the World

The original Golden Age

The Jotunheim are supplanted = the arch of heaven is lifted = Life takes form (no form becomes reality) = new church (spiritual contract - Life) = symbol of the sun (revelation) shining from the south based on rocks (truth - houses/halls of stone) = spiritual instruction begins (Life) = Aesir (men (Life), gods (Jotunheim), sun (revelation), moon (intelligence), stars) settles the patterns of nights and days and days and years - ie: sits in council) = meet on Ida Plan (early man in the garden of apples) = good and evil coalesce = social statehood

The Three Maids from Jotunheim arrive

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 26 - 33** **

The three maids from Jotunheim = desire for wealth = dwarves (Mineral Men = difficult humanity - ’children of lions’ -  formed from dust) emerge from indulgence, passion and beer) = Motsognir (master of the dwarves + beer + sleep) = the Aesir (now Natural Men) now create their own religion instituted by Elohim (divine ideas) - Earth born with Earth gods = sun (Earth sun) + Sun (spiritual sun) separate as a result = Human reality = combat on the Jara Plains (Jarring states) = man is not God = Council of Dwarves is affected = this is a ’dead creation’ = though the dwarves do have a ‘living spiritual atmosphere’ and they do own Golden Rings (spiritual contracts)

The lists of the dwarves names in _The Book of Edda Called Voluspa_ represent a list of contentious elements of light (good) and darkness (evil) - eg. the first dwarf Dravpnir (ringdropper), Dvalinn (spiritual patience), Lofar (praise) - the list also includes the names Durinn and Gandalf - and represent drunkenness (lusts and longings) vs intelligence (Jotunheim - pride) vs Elohim (divine ideas) - surrounded by ‘Serpent lures’

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 33 -36

The three** Aesir** arrived from Ask and Embla (other worlds in the nine worlds) = Adolescent Men = who crave gods = gods enter men (Infant gods - all gods are born from mankind) = the dwarves made the Earth ready = trees rise from the Earth = First Men (Infant Men)

The names of these Infant gods are characteristics of mind

Odin = spirit = breath

Haenir = mind = soul

Lodur (Loki) = blood = passion

Infant Men = freewill = irresponsible



Yggdrasil = ’the horse (intellect) of terror’ (Yggr = Ogre) = the whole world - has its roots in the memory of past and its top in the Milky Way


_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 36 -45

Odin the king of the Aesir (Infant god) faces Yggdrasil perplexed, and hides in Mimir (memory - Jotunheim) drunk on mead, in the morning (hopes), his intellect does not equate to divination. He chooses rings and bracelets and wands for divination(magic) **to bind the Vala **(Jotunheim).

Odin ponders that Infant Man has two eyes (one is corrupt and looks down into memory (Urd (past) cunning) and one is divine and looks up (conscience - but is asleep), and Infant Man hides in drunkenness, with love of past wars, love of power and past magnificence, countered by dreams of Valhalla (future).




_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 45 - 53

The Vala continues that the ‘Great Harlot’ Gullveig (finance) now appears, and is ‘set on spears and burnt three times’ in Odin’s Hall, yet she lives. Vala explains that spiritual things cannot be burnt, rather the hatred of spiritual things only adds blast to the ‘spiritual furnace’.

Odin’s dilemma adds wrath to wrath and becomes an Inquisition, whereby those things burnt by hellish fires survive and proves that profound ignorance and the hatred of spiritual things due to the love of dominion (power) leads only to war - the ‘first folk fight’ now begins - can Dominant Man and his impressive **Material Science with all its magic (Spin) **reform himself or will evil (chaos) triumph?

Vala explains that Freya, a Maid of Oth is given to the Jotunheim (sold for profit) and ‘the Great Harlot’ Gullveig (finance) becomes her maid. The ‘first folk fight’ now becomes full scale war as Nation hates Nation, and the Jotunheim Spins the spiritual Word (Life) with its Material Science with all its magic **(Spin) **(desire to become a god and defy all spiritual things) which destroys all spiritual health and a full scale religious war rages.

Thor is furious but he stands alone. He sees the evil and rejects it. Heimdall’s horn is silent (Heimdall = home), and Mimir (memory) becomes corrupt.


The ‘Great Harlot’ Gullveig (finance) rears her brood of wolves and the Infant gods become Naked Men. Adam and Eve are ‘uncovered’ and resort to fig leaves (fear - sycophant = fig apparent) and concealment (shame and cowardice). They are ‘not worth a fig’.

Olive = Celestial Man

Vine = Spiritual Man

Thus Fig tree = Natural Man

Fenrir (the Old One) is filled with the life strength of fear of stricken cowards (Feigr - dread of death) and the Dead Men (Jotunheim) proves to be still alive through Gullveig (finance) and through Material Science with all its magic (Spin).

Thus Natural Man **breaks from **Spiritual Man **and **Material Science with all its magic (Spin) is enthroned.

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 53 - 87


Birds = intellect - (good or evil)

Animals = affections (good or evil)

Baldur is killed by an arrow made of Mistletoe = Baldur’s brother (jealousy, hatred, vengeance) is immediately born. Brotherhood is dead.

Mistletoe - parasite = tree of death




Then Heimdall sounds his horn and as Odin speaks with Mimir’s (memory) head, Yggdrasil trembles and Lodur (Loki) breaks loose. Mimir’s children remember the Old Times and they respond to Heimdall’s horn as the spiritual forces ignite and become ‘on fire with terror’ and evil overbalances. The hells are overpopulous and overrun heaven and rejoice. Freewill is lost and all become enslaved.


  • mousepelt - avarice - an ‘unknowable host’) assisted by Material Science with all its magic (Spin) - Dominant Man **or a Nation who will war for personal gain) form a multitude and invade the east. Hrym (frost giant) threatens Humanity and surrounds Midgard, the sea contains the Midgard Serpent (Corrupt Men), as **Material Science with all its magic (Spin) rages and becomes ‘death devoted’.

On high an eagle screams, and a Fish Man arises from the spiritual sea. He sets sail in a boat made from human finger nails and toe nails (wounds - tooth and nail) and is sent to the east where the Muspell have invaded.


east = Love (sunrise)

west = decline of love

south = wisdom

north = shade of wisdom

Vala tells us the Fish Man is a Divine Warrior whose head is cut off (simplest facilities remain - intellect + conscience), aided by Surt (Humanity in its entirety (good and bad) + Love) arrives from the south, and the Jotunheim are vanquished and the war is over. All of modern Humanity is descended from this calamity.

The Vala asks ‘what of the Aesir’? Are they in Council as all of Humanity is rent by this conflict? It is individual human gods, Dominent Men (Nations, Churches) who engaged in this war, and no one can end this mortal combat.


In the resultant war, Fiorgyn’s (Mother Earth) son Thor slays the Midgard serpent (sea - self created ‘man want’ - sensuality), but Thor staggers back nine feet in reaction to what he has done (destroyed Humanity and the ground on which he stands) = general destruction.



_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 87 - 96



Black sun = sun of hell

Moon becomes blood = Divine Truth dies

Stars fall = knowledge of spirit is lost


Then an eagle cries (new dispensation) and the Aesir proves to still contain spirit which is awaiting the extinction of a dying Aeon, and the waters recede, leaving waterfalls (young Truths - Natural Truths of a New World). The Earth is suddenly ‘freshly green’ as a new spiritual diet ‘feeds the mind’ and Impartial Scientific Truth is born.

A New Earth (cold blooded intellect) arises from the water and remembering the first Fish Man begins to fish on mountains (high states - natural states), and a new Spiritual Man arises.

_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 96 - 129


Vala knew they would again meet on Ida Plain in full knowledge of all times past, the sea of Midgard’s serpent will be gone, replaced by a ‘blinding oracular dust’, because the Aesir (Humanity) cannot live without imaginative vision (Word - spirit - intellect), and that false Material Science with all its magic (Spin) is just another religion (but ‘not so nutritious’).









Material Science with all its magic (Spin) **represents ‘a delusion of sight’, leading Humanity again to war and devastation through love of dominion, greed and ignorance. Never again could the **Wise Men of Vindheim the Wide allow such travesties to walk abroad.


_The Book of Edda Called Voluspa _pages 129 - 150** **


Ruby = Celestial flame

Diamond = spiritual light


Though Ragnarok will occur in ‘spirit’ (in heaven - in human intellect), the rest will play out in the World until Valhalla (future) ‘unhelms its heroes’ and Yggdrasil (Humanity) is really fit for a new Golden Age when our new soul (Homo Sapiens Humilitas) is born and the new intellect of Impartial Scientific Truth girds its loins and joins in the fight for Truth (New Church - intellect), overcoming the serpent of false knowledge and the sorceries of godhood represented by Material Science with all its magic (Spin).

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