Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels ThereSwedenborg, Emanuel
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Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Cosmology -- Early works to 1800
Concerning regeneration,
we observed that they who are being regenerated by the Lord, and
who commit truths immediately to the life, come into an interior
perception concerning them; but that those who receive truths first in
the memory, and afterwards will them and do them, are those who are in
faith; for they act from faith, which is then called conscience. These
things, they said, they perceived to be so, and therefore perceived
also what faith is. I conversed with them by means of spiritual ideas,
by which such subjects may be exhibited and comprehended in light.
[Footnote aaa: Heaven is distinguished into two kingdoms, one of which
is called the celestial kingdom, the other the spiritual kingdom,
nos. 3887, 4138. The angels in the celestial kingdom have vastly more
knowledge and wisdom than the angels in the spiritual kingdom, no.
2718. The celestial angels do not think and speak from faith, like the
spiritual angels, but from an internal perception that a thing is so,
nos. 202, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 7680, 7877,
8780. The celestial angels say only concerning the truths of faith,
Yea, yea, or Nay, nay, but the spiritual angels reason whether a thing
be so or not so, nos. 202, 337, 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166.]
[Footnote bbb: Loving the Lord means living according to His
commandments, nos. 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645.]
[Footnote ccc: Loving the neighbour consists in doing what is good,
just, and right, in every work and in every function, from the
affection of what is good, just, and right, nos. 8120, 8121, 8123,
10310, 10336. A life of love towards the neighbour is a life according
to the Lord's precepts, no. 3249.]
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