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The sky is an enormous man.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
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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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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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.
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Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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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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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.
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