March 30, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 6)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 6)


When man comes into the other life, which takes place immediately after death, it is evident whether heaven is in him or not; but not while he lives in the world. For in the world the external appears, and not the internal, but in the other life the internal is made manifest, because man then lives as to his spirit.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 235)

March 29, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 5)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 5)


Heaven is with man in his internal, thus in his willing and thinking from love and faith, and thence in his external, which is in acting and speaking from love and faith. But heaven is not in man's external without the internal; for all hypocrites can act and speak well, but they cannot will and think well.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 234)

March 28, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 4)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 4)


They who receive heaven from the Lord are they who have heaven in themselves, for heaven is in man, as the Lord also teaches:
Neither shall they say, The kingdom of God, lo it is here, or lo there, for the Kingdom of God is in you (Luke 17:21).
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 233)

March 27, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 3)



Heaven is with every man according to his reception of love and faith from the Lord; and they who receive heaven from the Lord while they live in the world, come into heaven after death.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 232)

March 26, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 2)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 2)



Love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor constitute heaven; and also faith, so far as it has life from those loves.

And because both the love (and the faith thence derived), are from the Lord, it is evident that the Lord Himself constitutes heaven.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 231)

March 25, 2019

HEAVEN AND HELL (pt. 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
HEAVEN AND HELL
(pt. 1)



There are two things which constitute the life of man's spirit, namely, love and faith -
• love constituting the life of his will
• faith the life of his understanding 
The love of good and the faith of truth thence derived, constitute the life of heaven; and the love of evil, and the faith of falsity thence derived, constitute the life of hell.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 230)

March 24, 2019

THE RESURRECTION (pt. 6)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
THE RESURRECTION
(pt. 6)



FROM THE WORK ON HEAVEN AND HELL

It is unnecessary here to adduce anything from the Arcana Coelestia, since the things concerning the resurrection and the life of man after death have been fully treated in the work on Heaven and Hell, where they may be seen under the following articles:

I. Every Man is a Spirit as to His Interiors (n. 432-444).

II. Of Man's Resuscitation from the Dead, and His Entrance into Eternal Life (n. 445-452).

III. After Death Man is in a Perfect Human Form (n. 453-460).

IV. After Death Man has every Sense, and all the Memory, Thought, and Affection, which He had in the World; and that He Leaves Nothing but His Terrestrial Body (n. 461-469).

V. Man after Death is Such as his Life had Been in the World (n. 470-484).

VI. The Delights of Everyone's Life are Turned into Corresponding Things (n. 485-490).

VII. Of Man's First State after Death (n. 491-498).

VIII. Of Man's Second State after Death (n. 499-511).

IX. Of Man's Third State after Death, which is a State of Instruction for Those that Come into Heaven (n. 512-520).

X. That Heaven and Hell are from the Human Race (311-317).

Concerning the Last Judgment, see the work on The Last Judgment, and Babylon Destroyed, from the beginning to the end; where it is shown that the Last Judgment will not be attended with the destruction of the world.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 229)