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.
More Quotes from Emanuel Swedenborg:
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.Emanuel Swedenborg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
Emanuel Swedenborg
The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Angels Quotes, Body Quotes, Facts Quotes, Man QuotesI didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
William Petersen
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings