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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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To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
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The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.
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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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So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
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Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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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
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A heavenly society is a harmony of many.
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In the world it is little comprehended what love is and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying What is love? What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven.
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We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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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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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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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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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 divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
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