A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
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. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image