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Did Joseph get "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell?

Summary: Critics claim that Joseph Smith derived the idea of "three degrees of glory" in the afterlife from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen (1758). Critics claim that Joseph Smith's practice of plural marriage was similar to Swedenborg's philosophy of "spiritual wifery."