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Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish Scientist
Born: Jan 29, 1688
Died: Mar 29, 1772
Divine Heaven Love Man Spiritual World
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity Thought Others Recompense True Useful Desire
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg
Love Feeling Own Our Consists Give Delight Another His Desiring
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. Emanuel Swedenborg
Life Death Spiritual Man Natural World Every Changed State Evident Remains He Longer After Cannot Eternity Then Separated Lives Every Man
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. Emanuel Swedenborg
Love Distinct Neighbor Towards Lord Heaven Middle Loves Inmost Second Two Third
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. Emanuel Swedenborg
Spiritual Others Latter Angels More Divine Lord Celestial Goes Former Forth Less Receive
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. Emanuel Swedenborg
Satan World Light Angel Devil Beginning Hell Down Christian Crew Angels Cast Becoming Were His Heaven Formed Them Created Who Origin Believed Christian World
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. Emanuel Swedenborg
Happiness Love Wisdom Peace Love Is Intelligence All Things Divine Lord Heaven Reason Things Receptive
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. Emanuel Swedenborg
Speak Will Long Other Relate Others Say Possibly Objections Spirits Angels No-One He Well Make Am Order Gain Fancy Body Such Things Many Aware Credence Lives Things
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. Emanuel Swedenborg
Collectively Constitute Angels General Divine Taken Particular Makes Lord Goes Heaven Which Them Forth Received Flows
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. Emanuel Swedenborg
Spiritual Natural Word Sense Every Worldly Particular Heavenly Which Internal Letter Things Treated Treats
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. Emanuel Swedenborg
Three Unable Perceive Angels Invariably Divide Divine Know Talked Because Lord Subject Often Heaven
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. Emanuel Swedenborg
Man Speak Living Ancient Ancient Times Able Spirit Spirits Angels Fact He Most Lord Times Done Clothed Being In Fact While Them Created Body
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. Emanuel Swedenborg
Men Beginning Creation Hell Those Born Follows Namely Said Been Article Deceased Heaven Human Either Which Race Who Human Race Shown Ever Things
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. Emanuel Swedenborg
Time Good Man Quality World Church Evil Long Seen Earth He How Lord Still Any Cannot Process Aside Turned Less Lives
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. Emanuel Swedenborg
Love Truth Divine Divine Love Lord His Heaven Flows

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