Destruction was effected after visitatio... by Emanuel Swedenborg | We Heart Quotes

philosopher Destruction scientist Inventor Mystic

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

Other quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

Men World

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.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

Heaven Man

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

Man Time World

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

Men

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

Christian World

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, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

Angels Fact Man Being

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 spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

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