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
evil doe
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
mean evil doe
He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.
evil doe persons
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
justice design doe
Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.
men heaven doe
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
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.
love-is men doe
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.
kindness prayer doe
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
charity desire others true useful
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
word
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
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.
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
heaven young grows
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.