Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
1688–1772 Sweden
Emanuel Swedenborg (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist.
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Also known as: Swedenborg, Emanuel, Swedenborgian
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Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.
Arcana Coelestia (1749)
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
Man knows that love is, but not what it is.
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment.
Arcana Coelestia (1749)
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
Man can be raised therefore from natural knowledge into spiritual intelligence and on into celestial wisdom. From the two, intelligence and wisdom, he can look to the Lord, be conjoined with Him, and thereby live to eternity.
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.