“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ”
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“ Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own ”
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“ 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 ”
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“ The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ”
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“ Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. ”
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“ And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. ”
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“ There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. ”
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“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. ”
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“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. ”
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
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“ In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
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“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. ”
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“ Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt. ”
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
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“ The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. ”
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“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. ”
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
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