Emanuel Swedenborg

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Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

Quick Facts About Emanuel Swedenborg

Notable works: De coelo et ejus mirabilibus: from things heard and seen

About Emanuel Swedenborg

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

The sky is an enormous man.

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Enormous

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Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or…

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Heaven

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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

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And love

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What is true is true, and what is false is false...

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Funny

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Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the…

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Angel

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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last…

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Heaven

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A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils,…

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Doe

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Adultery is an image of hell.

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Adultery

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Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from…

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And love

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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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Divine

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The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy…

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Essence

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

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Divine

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Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus…

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And love

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A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage…

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Age

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The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who…

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Charity

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Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing…

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Causes

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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 angels…

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Angel

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That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and…

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Changed

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“People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood,…

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City streets

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

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Evil

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Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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Charity

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Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels,…

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Able

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Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when…

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Acting

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Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are…

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Determine

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“It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do…

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Low level

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Emanuel Swedenborg by topic

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