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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
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Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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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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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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
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