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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.
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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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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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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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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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We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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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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Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.
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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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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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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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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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Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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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.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
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A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
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