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 1} The heavens that constitute the celestial kingdom
are called higher while those that constitute the spiritual
kingdom are called lower (n. 10068).
{Footnote 2} Interior things are portrayed by higher things,
and higher things signify interior things (n. 2148, 3084, 4599,
5146, 8325).
23. The love in which those are, who are in the celestial kingdom is
called celestial love, and the love in which those are who are in the
spiritual kingdom is called spiritual love. Celestial love is love to
the Lord, and spiritual love is love towards the neighbor. And as all
good pertains to love (for good to any one is what he loves) the good
also of the other kingdom is called celestial, and the good of the
other spiritual. Evidently, then, the two kingdoms are distinguished
from each other in the same way as good of love to the Lord is
distinguished from good of love towards the neighbor.{1} And as the
good of love to the Lord is an interior good, and that love is
interior love, so the celestial angels are interior angels, and are
called higher angels.
{Footnote 1} The good of the celestial kingdom is good of love
to the Lord, and the good of the spiritual kingdom is good of
charity towards the neighbor (n. 3691, 6435, 9468, 9680, 9683,
9780).
24. The celestial kingdom is called also the Lord's priestly kingdom,
and in the Word "His dwelling-place;" while the spiritual kingdom is
called His royal kingdom, and in the Word "His throne." And from the
celestial Divine the Lord in the world was called "Jesus," while from
the spiritual Divine He was called "Christ."
25. The angels in the Lord's celestial kingdom, from their more
interior reception of the Divine of the Lord, far excel in wisdom and
glory the angels that are in His spiritual kingdom; for they are in
love to the Lord, and consequently are nearer and more closely
conjoined to Him.{1} These angels are such because they have received
and continue to receive Divine truths at once in their life, and not
first in memory and thought, as the spiritual angels do. Consequently
they have Divine truths written in their hearts, and they perceive
them, and as it were see them, in themselves; nor do they ever reason
about them whether they are true or not.{2} They are such as are
described in Jeremiah:
I will put my law in their mind, and will write it in
their heart. They shall teach no more everyone his friend
and everyone his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah. They
shall know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest
of them (31:33, 34).
And they are called in Isaiah:
Taught of Jehovah (54:13).
That the "taught of Jehovah" are those who are taught by the Lord He
Himself teaches in John (6:45, 46).
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