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• Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Justice, Design, Doe

  Emanuel Swedenborg, Glen Michael Cooper, Stuart Shotwell (2006). “True Christianity, Containing a Comprehensive Theology of the New Church that was Predicted by the Lord in Daniel 7:13-14 and Revelation 21:1, 2: sections 1-462”

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• For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Letters, Natural

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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

  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”

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• Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Mirrors, Different, Sacred Scripture

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• One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in heaven to share his delights and blessings with others; and as such is the character of all that are in the heavens it is clear how immeasurable is the delight of heaven.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Blessing, Joy, Heaven

  "Heaven and Hell". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John C. Ager, No. 399, www.sacred-texts.com. 1900.

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• 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

  Love Is, Men, Knows

  "Divine Love". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1, www.sacred-texts.com. 1914.

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• Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Charity, Transactions

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1875). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.243

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• Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
  (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Men, He Man

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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

  Love, Happiness, Peace

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• The sky is an enormous man.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Sky, Enormous

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• He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Mean, Evil, Doe

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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 have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Religion, Church

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1852). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.383, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Death, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Evil, Doe

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• Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Compassion, Together

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• Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Office, Acting, Employment

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1855). “The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin”, p.452

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• For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Men, Church

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Taken, Angel, Heaven

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

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• Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Animal, Blood, Brain

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”

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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 good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Evil, Separation

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

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  Opportunity, Reality, May

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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