“[E]verything of life flows in-the good of life from the Lord, and the evil of life from hell.”Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 6325

Uprightness is revealed by gentleness and sweetness, by gentleness because a person is fearful of doing harm, and by sweetness because they love to do good.”

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“Love is the life of faith; that is, faith lives from love.”

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“When one abstains from false testimonies [and] shuns them and turns away from them, as sins, then from the Lord, through heaven, the love of truth and the love of justice flow in.”

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The circle of a person’s life is to know, to understand, to will and to do.”

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When two people love each other mutually, the will of the one is that of the other. They are, as it were, inwardly joined together, and are separate from each other in body only.”

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“Those who are to be regenerated are not regenerated in a single space of time but are being regenerated throughout their entire life, and even in the next life.”

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“The fact of the matter is that all good and all truth come from the Lord.”

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“Through the Word a person is conjoined with the Lord. They experience something inmostly affecting their heart and spirit, which flows with enlightenment into in their intellect.”

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“Charity towards the neighbor is nothing less than a life according to the Lord’s commandments.
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While a person is being regenerated and becoming spiritual they are involved constantly in conflict.”

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“The Lord has given the Word to mankind, and also to angels, so that by means of it they may be with Him. Indeed the Word is the means by which earth is united to heaven, and heaven to the Lord.”

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“The activity of the will is the real person, not thought or utterance of that which they do not will.”

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