Emanuel Swedenborg

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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