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
office acting employment
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
shining joy faces
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.
forever mind delight
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.
spiritual men long
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
charity transactions
Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
character mirrors infinity
No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
angel men sometimes
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.
heaven flow lord
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love
spiritual angel lord
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels
love-is heaven reason
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness
angel men done
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
spiritual mean men
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
feelings way spirit
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
inspire benefits his-love
God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love