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.
punishment evil
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
men evil separation
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
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.
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.
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
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.
men thinking departure
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.