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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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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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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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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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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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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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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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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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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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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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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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