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
self self-love world
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
real heaven world
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
people evil world
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.
heaven age world
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
charity desire others true useful
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
basis created human
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
divide divine invariably perceive talked unable
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
word
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
basis heaven human race
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded.
evil doe
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
adultery hell
Adultery is an image of hell.
love opportunity reality
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
spiritual heaven soul
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.
love spiritual angel
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.