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: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love
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According to Wikipedia: 'Emanuel Swedenborg (February 8, 1688[1]-March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works. Swedenborg explicitly rejected the common explanation of the Trinity as a Trinity of Persons, which he said was not taught in the early Christian Church. Instead he explained in his theological writings how the Divine Trinity exists in One Person, in One God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Swedenborg also rejected the doctrine of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other. The purpose of faith, according to Swedenborg, is to lead a person to a life according to the truths of faith, which is charity.'

ANGELIC WISDOM CONCERNING THE DIVINE LOVE AND THE DIVINE WISDOM BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG


 

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Works of Swedenborg available from Seltzer Books:

Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providece

Angelic Wisdom Concerning Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love

Earths in Our Solar System

Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell

Spiritual Life and the Word of God

 

Standard Edition

 

Swedenborg Foundation

Incorporated

New York

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Established 1850

 

 

First Published in Latin, Amsterdam, 1763

First English translation published in U.S.A., 1794

55th Printing, 1988

ISBN 0-87785-056-9

 

 

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-46144

Manufactured in the United States of America

 

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

 

1. PART FIRST. LOVE IS THE LIFE OF MAN.

 

83. PART SECOND. DIVINE LOVE AND DIVINE WISDOM APPEAR IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AS A SUN.

 

173. PART THIRD. IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD THERE ARE ATMOSPHERES, WATERS AND LANDS, JUST AS IN THE NATURAL WORLD; ONLY THE FORMER ARE SPIRITUAL, WHILE THE LATTER ARE NATURAL.

 

282. PART FOURTH. THE LORD FROM ETERNITY, WHO IS JEHOVAH, CREATED THE UNIVERSE AND ALL THINGS THEREOF FROM HIMSELF, AND NOT FROM NOTHING.

 

358. PART FIFTH.  TWO RECEPTACLES AND ABODES FOR HIMSELF, CALLED WILL AND UNDERSTANDING, HAVE BEEN CREATED AND FORMED BY THE LORD IN MAN; THE WILL FOR HIS DIVINE LOVE, AND THE UNDERSTANDING FOR HIS DIVINE WISDOM.

 

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE


 

The previous translation of this work has been carefully revised.  In this revision the translator has had the valuable assistance of suggestions by the Rev. L.H. Tafel and others.  The new renderings of existere and fugere are suggestions adopted by the Editorial Committee and accepted by the translator, but for which he does not wish to be held solely responsible.

 

1. PART FIRST. LOVE IS THE LIFE OF MAN.


 

Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what love is. He knows that there is such a thing as love from common speech, as when it is said, he loves me, a king loves his subjects, and subjects love their king, a husband loves his wife, a mother her children, and conversely; also, this or that one loves his country, his fellow citizens, his neighbor; and likewise of things abstracted from person, as when it is said, one loves this or that thing. But although the word love is so universally used, hardly anybody knows what love is. And because one is unable, when he reflects upon it, to form to himself any idea of thought about it, he says either that it is not anything, or that it is merely something flowing in from sight, hearing, touch, or interaction with others, and thus affecting him. He is wholly unaware that love is his very life; not only the general life of his whole body, and the general life of all his thought