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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
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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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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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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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No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
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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 essence itself is love and wisdom.
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And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
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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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The sky is an enormous man.
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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love
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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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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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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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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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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