Emmanuel Swedenborg Quotes

El Señor no envía a nadie al infierno, es el mismo espíritu el que se arroja a él.

Soon afterward I saw a spirit falling down from heaven. I went over to him and asked why he had fallen out of heaven like that. He answered that Michael’s angels had thrown him down, because he had said that God the Father and his Son are two, not one. He said that the entire angelic heaven believes that God the Father and his Son are one as a soul and a body are one — a point the angels support with many passages from the Word. They also use rational argumentation as support: they say the Son’s soul came from nowhere else but the Father; therefore that soul was an image of the Father, and the body that came from it contained that image. He added that when he was in heaven he of course spoke of one God, just as he used to do on earth; but because his verbal statements to this effect did not match what he was thinking, the angels said he did not believe in any God, because the two views cancel each other out. He said this was why he was thrown out of heaven.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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.

458 At times evil spirits have conjectured that some heaven other than the Lord’s could exist. They have received permission to look for it wherever they could. To their own chagrin, they have never been able to locate one. Evil spirits rush headlong into all kinds of craziness, both because they hate the Lord and because hell is so painful, and these are the kinds of fantasies they seize on.

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

We have two abilities that make up our life, one called will and the other understanding. They are distinguishable, but they are created to be one. When they are one, they are called the mind; so they are the human mind and it is there that all the life within us is truly to be found.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

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.

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

[6] Then the ambassador asked him, “Can you make it true that you yourself are insane?” The provider of arguments said, “I could, but I don’t want to. Who isn’t insane?” Then people asked the provider of arguments to say from the heart whether he was joking or whether he really believed that there is no truth except what people make out to be true. He replied, “That is what I believe, I swear.” Afterward

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.