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
life understanding beneficial
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
understanding shapes goodness
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
single-mom new-beginnings understanding
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
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.
self self-love world
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
evil doe
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
angel men heaven
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
adultery hell
Adultery is an image of hell.