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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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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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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Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.
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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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So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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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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