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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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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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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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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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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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
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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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We are, because God is.
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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