Emanuel Swedenborg - Man Quotes

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Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man.

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Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

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That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

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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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Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

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The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

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It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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