Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Talking, Inspire

• 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 are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Body

• 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

  Angel, Order, Long

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1954). “Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scripture Or Word of the Lord Unfolded. Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”

• All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Feelings

• Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Spirit

  "Arcana Coelestia ('Heavenly Secrets')". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John F. Potts, No. 1683, www.sacred-texts.com. 1910.

• It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Men, Heaven

• 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

  Faith, Angel, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Angel, Light

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Taken, Angel, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Two, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.222

• 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, Men, Sometimes

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1850). “Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin [by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the “preface to the first English edition” of this work, by T. Hartley].”, p.33

• 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

  Spiritual, Angel, Lord

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• 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; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Men, Done

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Arcana Coelestia, Volume 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

• So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Spiritual, Angel

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

• Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Unique, Essence

• People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, People, Spirit

• 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

  Spiritual, Angel, Race

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