Heaven and its Wonders and HellSwedenborg, Emanuel
Religion
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Future life -- Christianity -- Early work to 1800; Heaven -- Christianity; Hell -- Christianity
{Footnote 2} There is only one Life, from which all, both in
heaven and in the world, live (n. 1954, 2021, 2536, 2658,
2886-2889, 3001, 3484, 3742, 5847, 6467). That life is from the
Lord above (n. 2886-2889, 3344, 3484, 4319, 4320, 4524, 4882,
5986, 6325, 6468-6470, 9276, 10196). It flows into angels,
spirits, and men, in a wonderful manner (n. 2886-2889, 3337,
3338, 3484, 3742). The Lord flows in from His Divine love,
which is such that what is its own it wills should be another's
(n. 3472, 4320). For this reason life appears to be in man, and
not flowing in (n. 3742, 4320). Of the joy of angels, perceived
and confirmed by what they told me, because of their not living
from themselves but from the Lord (n. 6469). The evil are
unwilling to be convinced that life flows in (n. 3743). Life
from the Lord flows in also with the evil (n. 2706, 3743, 4417,
10196). But they turn good into evil, and truth into falsity;
for such as man is such is his reception of life illustrated
(n. 4319, 4320, 4417).
204. But let it be understood that intelligence and wisdom vary with
everyone in accordance with this communication, those whose
intelligence and wisdom are formed out of genuine truths and goods
having communication with societies in accordance with the form of
heaven; while those whose intelligence and wisdom are not formed out
of genuine truths and goods, and yet out of what is in accord
therewith, have a broken and variously coherent communication, since
it is not with societies that are in a series in which there is a
form of heaven. On the other hand, those that are not in intelligence
and wisdom, because they are in falsities from evil, have
communication with societies in hell; and their extension is
determined by the degree of their confirmation. Let it also be known
that this communication with societies is not such a communication
with them as is clearly perceptible to those there, but is a
communication with what they really are, which is in them and flows
from them.{1}
{Footnote 1} Thought pours itself into societies of spirits and
of angels round about (n. 6600-6605). Still it does not move or
disturb the thoughts of the societies (n. 6601, 6603).
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