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...

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Angels from their wisdom go still further. They say that not only every thing good and true is from the Lord, but every thing of life as well.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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

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...

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

The sky is an enormous man.

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

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...

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and...

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not...

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...

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do...

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is...

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the...

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

What is true is true, and what is false is false…

In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions,...

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy,...

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a...

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.