Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theologicalWhite, William
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Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theological
White, William
Mystics -- Sweden -- Biography; Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
The sermons of heaven are fraught with such wisdom that nothing of the
kind in the world can be compared with them. They are all drawn from the
Word. The same Bible that we read here, the angels read in heaven; but to
them it is a very different book from what it is to us. Where we read and
think of earthly and material things, they read and think of spiritual
and divine things. To them its spiritual and celestial senses are as open
as the natural sense is to us. From the Word they derive their highest
wisdom; and through continual converse with it, they grow wiser and wiser
day by day. The Word is the wisdom of the Lord, and eternity can not
exhaust it.
All infants go to heaven, whether born within the church or out of it;
whether of pious parents or wicked ones. When infants die, they are still
infants in the other life. They are not angels, but become angels. Every
one, on his decease, is in a similar state of life to that in which he
was in the world; an infant in the state of infancy, a boy in a state
of boyhood, and a youth, a man, or an old man, in the state of youth, of
manhood, or of age; but the state of every one is afterwards changed. As
soon as infants are raised from the dead, which takes place immediately
after decease, they are carried up into heaven, and delivered to the care
of angels of the female sex, who in the life of the body loved infants
tenderly, and at the same time loved God. By these good angels, they
are educated and brought up until they attain a suitable age, when they
are transferred to other teachers. They grow up and become young men
and women; are instructed in wisdom, and trained in the duties of the
heavenly life: and when their character is fully developed, they become
settled in some society, either of the celestial or spiritual kingdom, in
agreement with their inherited genius or disposition. What a delightful
faith is this! Do not its beauty and rationality prove its truthfulness?
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