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
heaven wells
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
faith spiritual men
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
men quality doe
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.
kindness worship divine
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
desire charity philanthropy-giving
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
life love-is humanity
Love is the life of humanity.
angel talking inspire
Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
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.
service-to-others
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
spiritual self heaven
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
change wise good-life
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.
acting doing-good
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
men long evil
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
angel heaven body
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.