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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
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It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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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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