Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, mystic and founder of Sweden borgianism. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter Weekend, on 6 April 1744. It culminated in a ‘spiritual awakening’ in which he received a revelation that he was appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.

Date of birth:
29th January, 1688
Date of death:
29th March, 1772
"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
Topic(s): Religion
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
― Emanuel Swedenborg
Topic(s): Happiness
"And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord."
― Emanuel Swedenborg
Topic(s): Faith
"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."
― Emanuel Swedenborg
Topic(s): Faith

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