Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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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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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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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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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

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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

Emanuel Swedenborg
Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment.

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If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

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Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

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There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

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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 the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

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A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

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This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.

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I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

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The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

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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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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

Emanuel Swedenborg
The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

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The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

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What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

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[There are] many earths, inhabited by man... thousands, yea, ten thousands of earths, all full of inhabitants not only in this solar system, but also beyond it, in the starry heaven.

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Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Emanuel Swedenborg
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

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