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

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Charity Desire Others Thought True Useful

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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 as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: All Things Divine Happiness Heaven Intelligence Lord Love Love Is Peace Reason Receptive Things Wisdom

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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; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Am Angels Aware Body Fancy Gain He Lives Long Make Many Objections Order Other Others Possibly Relate Say Speak Spirits Such Things Things Well Will I Am

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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.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Angels Because Divide Divine Heaven Invariably Know Lord Often Perceive Subject Talked Three Unable

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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

Topics: Distinct Heaven Inmost Lord Love Loves Middle Neighbor Second Third Towards Two

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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.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Actions Also Appears Body Everyone Face Faith He His Love Man Moreover Only Own Respect Speech Spiritual To Love World

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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 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.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: After Cannot Changed Death Eternity Every Every Man Evident He Life Lives Longer Man Natural Remains Separated Spiritual State Then World

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The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Angels Collectively Constitute Divine Flows Forth General Goes Heaven Lord Makes Particular Received Taken Them Which

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

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Divine Divine Love Flows Heaven His Lord Love Truth

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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 are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Scientist

Born: January 29th, 1688

Died: March 29th, 1772

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