But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt. Emanuel Swedenborg More Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg More Quotes From Emanuel Swedenborg Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. Emanuel Swedenborg compassion together love So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good. Emanuel Swedenborg evil doe Adultery is an image of hell. Emanuel Swedenborg adultery hell I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company. Emanuel Swedenborg angel sometimes men This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love Emanuel Swedenborg flow lord heaven Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. Emanuel Swedenborg visitation destruction The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion. Emanuel Swedenborg church life religion Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. Emanuel Swedenborg self-love self world In the world it is little comprehended what love is; and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying "What is love?" What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven. Emanuel Swedenborg knows love-is men All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. Emanuel Swedenborg unions trust love Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. Emanuel Swedenborg organs men life Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way. Emanuel Swedenborg sacred-scripture different mirrors Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels. Emanuel Swedenborg angel race spiritual 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; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. Emanuel Swedenborg soul spiritual heaven 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. Emanuel Swedenborg and-love heaven two Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own. Emanuel Swedenborg compassion love mean 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. Emanuel Swedenborg angel faith heaven 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. Emanuel Swedenborg race men heaven There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels Emanuel Swedenborg angel lord spiritual The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. Emanuel Swedenborg separation evil men
