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Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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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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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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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
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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 nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
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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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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
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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.
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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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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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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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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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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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