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We are, because God is.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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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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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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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
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