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 1 deals specifically with Genesis 1-9, interspersed with Swedenborg's descriptions of how we pass from this world to the next after death 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.