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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
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It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
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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.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.
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Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
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The sky is an enormous man.
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Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
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Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
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