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Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
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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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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
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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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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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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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Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
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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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Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
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