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
basis heaven human race
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded.
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.
mean compassion suffering
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
punishment evil
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
truth
What is true is true, and what is false is false...
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.