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
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.
blessing joy heaven
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
love-is essence joy
The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.
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.
word
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
charity desire others true useful
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
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.