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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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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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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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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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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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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A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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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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