Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Chapter II, It is the Divine of the Lord that Makes Heaven
“ They wonder how any one can believe that he is wise from himself or does anything good from himself. Doing good for one's own sake they do not call good, because it is done from self. But doing good for the sake of good they call good from the Divine ”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Chapter II, It is the Divine of the Lord that Makes Heaven
“ Moreover, the angels of the inmost heaven clearly perceive and feel the influx, and the more of it they receive the more they seem to themselves to be in heaven, because the more are they in love and faith and in the light of intelligence and wisdom, and in heavenly joy therefrom; and since all these go forth from the Divine of the Lord, and in these the angels have their heaven, it is clear that it is the Divine of the Lord, and not the angels from anything properly their own that makes heaven. ”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Chapter II, It is the Divine of the Lord that Makes Heaven
“ The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ”
