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Ocupation: Scientist

Life: January 29, 1688 - March 29, 1772

Birthday: January 29

Death: March 29


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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310

Topics: Life, Spiritual, Fire, Love Is All You Need, Love Is Strong

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole (1985). “A view from within: a compendium of Swedenborg's theological thought”

Topics: Alive, Body, Spirit

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10

Topics: God, Essence, Glory, Love And Wisdom

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

source: - "Apocalypse Explained". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1180, www.sacred-texts.com. 1911.

Topics: Evil, Doe, Persons

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

Topics: Love, Heaven, Faith And Love

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1962). “The Gist of Swedenborg”, p.91, Library of Alexandria

Topics: Spiritual, Distance, Self

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1867). “Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758”, p.323

Topics: Love, Opportunity, Reality

We are, because God is.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.921, Simon and Schuster

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.59, The Swedenborg Foundation

Topics: Love Is, Married, Goodness

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212

Topics: Punishment, Evil

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1853). “Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the “preface to the first English edition” of this work, by T. Hartley”, p.218

Topics: Heaven, Young, Grows

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.79, The Swedenborg Foundation

Topics: Feelings, Way, Spirit

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

source: - "Arcana Coelestia ('Heavenly Secrets')". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John F. Potts, No. 1683, www.sacred-texts.com. 1910.

Topics: Angel, Spirit

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36

Topics: Death, Spiritual, Men, Nevertheless

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1839). “The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem: Concerning the Lord, the Sacred Scriptures, the White Horse, Faith, Life. Also, the Heavenly Doctrines”

Topics: Relate

Adultery is an image of hell.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1815). “Works”

Topics: Adultery, Hell

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1835). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom”, p.13

Topics: Love Is, Men, Doe

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.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1850). “Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin [by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the “preface to the first English edition” of this work, by T. Hartley].”, p.33

Topics: Angel, Men, Sometimes, Human Form

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or Book of Revelations Explained”, p.45

Topics: Self, Self Love, World

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Last Judgment, and the Babylon Destroyed: so that all the predictions in the Apocalypse are at this day fulfilled ... Translated from the Latin, etc. (A new translation.)”, p.38

Topics: Men, Long, Evil

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.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

Topics: Forever, Mind, Rising

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.222

Topics: Angel, Two, Heaven

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.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1873). “Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning with the Book of Genesis Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”, p.9

Topics: Men, Quality, Doe

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell (Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

Topics: Heaven, Firsts, Depends

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, Glen Michael Cooper, Stuart Shotwell (2006). “True Christianity, Containing a Comprehensive Theology of the New Church that was Predicted by the Lord in Daniel 7:13-14 and Revelation 21:1, 2: sections 1-462”

Topics: Justice, Design, Doe

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1852). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.383, Library of Alexandria

Topics: Life, Religion, Church

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1855). “The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin”, p.452

Topics: Office, Acting, Employment

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Men, Evil, Separation, Visitation

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.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Love, Spiritual, Angel, Love And Wisdom

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol III: Last Judgment; Last Judgment Continued; Last Judgment Posthumous”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Spiritual, Mean, Men

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

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.15

Topics: Heaven, Flow, Lord

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1857). “Miscellaneous Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.476

Topics: Destruction, Visitation

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.

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Two, Heaven, And Love


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