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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
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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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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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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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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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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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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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All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.
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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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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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A heavenly society is a harmony of many.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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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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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
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And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
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Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it and once we are released from the body we join them.
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The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
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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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