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• 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.

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• In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Young, Grows

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1853). “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.218

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• The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  May, Return, Creation

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• The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Change, Wise, Good Life

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Bigelow (1888). “A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg”

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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 of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Believe, Men, And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1858). “The gospel according to Mark”, p.234

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• A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36

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• All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Relate

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1839). “The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem: Concerning the Lord, the Sacred Scriptures, the White Horse, Faith, Life. Also, the Heavenly Doctrines”

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• Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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  Love Is, Men, Doe

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1835). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom”, p.13

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• Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Thinking, Knowing, Charity

  "On the Divine Love; On the Divine Wisdom: A Translation of Unpublished Manuscripts".

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• Adultery is an image of hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Adultery, Hell

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1815). “Works”

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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, 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

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• Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Self, Self Love, World

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or Book of Revelations Explained”, p.45

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Trust, Unions

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• It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Truth, Character, Men

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• Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Happiness, Angelic

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• 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

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• The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Long, Evil

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Last Judgment, and the Babylon Destroyed: so that all the predictions in the Apocalypse are at this day fulfilled ... Translated from the Latin, etc. (A new translation.)”, p.38

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

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  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

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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 every part of the face.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Shining, Joy, And Love

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• Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

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  Forever, Mind, Rising

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
  less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Quality, Doe

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1873). “Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning with the Book of Genesis Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”, p.9

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• What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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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

  Faith, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Firsts, Depends

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell (Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Self, Heaven, Earth

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