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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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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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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it and once we are released from the body we join them.
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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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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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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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Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.
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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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We are, because God is.
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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
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Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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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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