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
Then the uses of heavenly life are drawn forth by the Lord
and perfected and raised up out of the knowledges
[scientificis] in the natural man by means of the internal
man (n. 1895, 1896, 1900, 1901, 1902, 5871, 5874, 5901).
While incongruous and opposing knowledges [scientifica]
are rejected to the sides and banished (n. 5871, 5886,
5889).
[4] The sight of the internal man calls forth from the
knowledges [scientificis] of the external man only such
things as are in accord with its love (n. 9394).
As seen by the internal man what pertains to the love is
at the center and in brightness, but what is not of the
love is at the sides and in obscurity (n. 6068, 6084).
Suitable knowledges [scientifica] are gradually implanted
in man's loves and as it were dwell in them (n. 6325).
If man were born into love towards the neighbor he would
be born into intelligence, but because he is born into the
loves of self and of the world he is born into total
ignorance (n. 6323, 6325).
Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom are sons of
love to God and of love towards the neighbor (n. 1226,
2049, 2116).
[5] It is one thing to be wise, another thing to
understand, another to know [scire], and another to do;
nevertheless, in those that possess spiritual life these
follow in order, and exist together in doing or deeds (n.
10331).
Also it is one thing to know [scire], another to
acknowledge, and another to have faith (n. 896).
[6] Knowledges [scientifica], which pertain to the
external or natural man, are in the light of the world,
but truths that have been made truths of faith and of
love, and have thus acquired life, are in the light of
heaven (n. 5212).
The truths that have acquired spiritual life are
comprehended by means of natural ideas (n. 5510).
Spiritual influx is from the internal or spiritual man
into the knowledges [scientifica] that are in the external
or natural man (n. 1940, 8005).
Knowledges [scientifica] are receptacles, and as it were
vessels, for the truth and good that belong to the
internal man (n. 1469, 1496, 3068, 5489, 6004, 6023, 6052,
6071, 6077, 7770, 9922).
Knowledges [scientifica] are like mirrors in which the
truths and goods of the internal man appear as an image
(n. 5201).
There they are together as in their outmost (n. 5373,
5874, 5886, 5901, 6004, 6023, 6052, 6071).
[7] Influx is not physical but spiritual, that is, influx
is from the internal man into the external, thus into the
knowledges of the external; and not from the external into
the internal, thus not from the knowledges [scientificis]
of the external into truths of faith (n. 3219, 5119, 5259,
5427, 5428, 5478, 6322, 9110).
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