Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg; born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 January 1688
CountrySweden
spirit hell lord
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
spiritual distance self
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
life church charity
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....
love-is married goodness
If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.
animal blood brain
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.
men sky enormous
The sky is an enormous man.
believe men and-love
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.
may return creation
The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.
mirrors sacred-scripture way
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
death spiritual men
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
men race heaven
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
spiritual letters natural
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.
christian angel light
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.
men evil separation
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.