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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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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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God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
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There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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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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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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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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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
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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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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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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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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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We are, because God is.
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