Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Preface
“ Such is the opinion of most men in the church at the present day. But those who so believe are ignorant of the arcana that lie hid in every particular of the Word. For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. ”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Preface
“ Lest, therefore, such a spirit of denial, which especially prevails with those who have much worldly wisdom, should also infect and corrupt the simple in heart and the simple in faith, it has been granted me to associate with angels and to talk with them as man with man, also to see what is in the heavens and what is in the hells, and this for thirteen years ”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell — Preface
“ Refrences to the Author's Arcana Coelestia ↑ The consummation of the age is the final period of the church (n. 4535, 10622) .↑ The Lord's predictions in Matthew (24 and 25) , respecting the consummation of the age and His coming, and the consequent successive vastation of the church and the final judgment, are explained in the prefaces to chapters 26-40 of Genesis (n. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635- 4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071) . ”
