1) Sect 
• (n.) The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
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Swe`den·bor'gi·an·ism noun The doctrines of the Swedenborgians. 
A highly developed religious philosophy arising from Emanuel Swedenborg (Jan. 29, 1688-March 29, 1772). Swedenborg claimed direct spiritual knowledge. He recognized three descending levels or 'degress of being in God'; Love the Celestial, Spirit or the End; then Wisdom, the Spiritual or Soul, Cause; and finally the degree of Use, the Natural and P....