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Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is alway...

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of hea...

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This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their r...

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The sky is an enormous man.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Secrets of Heaven (Swedenborg

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual l...

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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the ange...

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All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the s...

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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyo...

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Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not...

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Heaven and Hell

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. ...

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Secrets of Heaven (Swedenborg

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Scientist

Born: 1688-01-29

Died: 1772-03-29

Emanuel Swedenborg (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist.More