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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
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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