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The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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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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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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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.
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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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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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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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Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
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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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Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
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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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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
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