Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

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

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

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... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

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... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth.. view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

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... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

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

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor... view

By: Emanuel Swedenborg