Emanuel Swedenborg - Spirits Quotes

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We are not people because of our bodies but because of our spirits. After all, it is the spirit within us that thinks, and thought and affection together make us the people we are. We can see, then, that when we die we simply move from one world into another.

Emanuel Swedenborg
When someone's body can no longer perform its functions in the natural world in response to the thoughts and affections of its spirit, then we say that the individual has died. This happens when the lungs' breathing and the heart's systolic motion have ceased. The person, though, has not died at all. We are only separated from the physical nature that was useful to us in the world. The essential person is actually still alive.

Emanuel Swedenborg
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

Emanuel Swedenborg
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

Emanuel Swedenborg
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.

Emanuel Swedenborg
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

Emanuel Swedenborg
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.

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

Emanuel Swedenborg