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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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 heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
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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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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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Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
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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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Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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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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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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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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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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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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Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.
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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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