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Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 33 33. Let it be clearly understood that with the angels it is the interiors that cause them to be in one heaven or another; for as their interiors are more open to the Lord they are in a more interior heaven. There are three degrees of interiors in each angel and spirit, and also in man. Those in whom the third degree is opened are in the inmost heaven. Those in whom the second degree is opened, or... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=33 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 74 74. Let us now turn to experience. That angels are human forms, or men, has been seen by me a thousand times. I have talked with them as man with man, sometimes with one, sometimes with many together; and I have seen nothing whatever in their form different from the human form; and have occasionally been surprised to find them such. And that this might not be said to be a delusion or a vision of f... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=74 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 108 108. That all things in the world spring from the Divine, and are clothed with such things in nature as enable them to exist there and perform use, and thus to correspond, is clearly evident from the various things seen in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms. In both there are things that any one who thinks interiorly can see to be from heaven. For illustration a few things out of a countless n... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=108 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 112 112. How conjunction of heaven with the world is effected by means of correspondences shall also be told in a few words. The Lord's kingdom is a kingdom of ends, which are uses; or what is the same thing, a kingdom of uses which are ends. For this reason the universe has been so created and formed by the Divine that uses may be every where clothed in such a way as to be presented in act, or in eff... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=112 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 248 248. The speech of an angel or spirit with man is heard by him as audibly as the speech of man with man, yet by himself only, and not by others who stand near; and for the reason that the speech of an angel or spirit flows first into a man's thought, and by an inner way into his organ of hearing, and thus moves it from within; while the speech of man with man flows first into the air and by an out... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=248 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 267 267. Angels are capable of receiving such wisdom because their interiors are open; and wisdom, like every other perfection, increases towards the interiors, thus to the extent that interiors are opened.# In every angel there are three degrees of life, corresponding to the three heavens (see n. 29-40)- those in whom the first degree has been opened are in the first or outmost heaven; those in whom... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=267 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 279 279. The same is true of everyone who is being regenerated. Regeneration, as regards the spiritual man, is re-birth. Man is first introduced into the innocence of childhood, which is that one knows no truth and can do no good from himself, but only from the Lord, and desires and seeks truth only because it is truth, and good only because it is good. As man afterwards advances in age good and truth... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=279 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 307 307. How heaven is conjoined with man by means of the Word I will illustrate by some passages from it. "The New Jerusalem" is described in the Apocalypse in these words: I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And I saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. The city was foursquare, its lengt... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=307 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 324 324. But as regards the heathen of the present day, they are not so wise, but most of them are simple in heart. Nevertheless, those of them that have lived in mutual charity receive wisdom in the other life, and of these one or two examples may be cited. When I read the seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of Judges (about Micah, and how the sons of Dan carried away his graven image and teraphim an... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=324 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 327 327. I have talked with some who were in the Ancient Church. That is called the Ancient Church that was established after the deluge, and extended through many kingdoms, namely, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria, Ethiopia, Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Philistia as far as Tyre and Zidon, and through the land of Canaan on both sides of the Jordan.# The men of this church knew about the Lord that He was to come,... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=327 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 334 334. How children are taught in heaven shall also be briefly told. From their nurses they learn to talk. Their earliest speech is simply a sound of affection; this by degrees becomes more distinct as ideas of thought enter; for ideas of thought from affections constitute all angelic speech (as may be seen in its own chapter, n. 234-245). Into their affections, all of which proceed from innocence,... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=334 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 356 356. But in respect to those that have acquired intelligence and wisdom through knowledge and science, who are such as have applied all things to the use of life, and have also acknowledged the Divine, loved the Word, and lived a spiritual moral life (of which above, n. 319), to such the sciences have served as a means of becoming wise, and also of corroborating the things pertaining to faith. The... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=356 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 385 385. There were certain spirits who, from a practice acquired in the life of the body, infested me with peculiar craftiness, and this by a very gentle wave-like influx like the usual influx of well disposed spirits; but I perceived that there was craftiness and other like evils in them prompting them to ensnare and deceive. Finally, I talked with one of them who, I was told, had been when he lived... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=385 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 449 449. As to the senses of the body I was brought into a state of insensibility, thus nearly into the state of the dying; but with the interior life and thought remaining unimpaired, in order that I might perceive and retain in the memory the things that happened to me, and that happen to those that are resuscitated from the dead. I perceived that the respiration of the body was almost wholly taken... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=449 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 456 456. That the spirit of man, when it has been loosed from the body, is still a man and in a like form, has been proved to me by the daily experience of many years; for I have seen such and have listened to them a thousand times, and have talked with them about this fact, that men in the world do not believe them to be men, and that those that do believe this are regarded by the learned as simple.... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=456 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 457 457. When the spirit of man first enters the world of spirits, which takes place shortly after his resuscitation, as described above, his face and his tone of voice resemble those he had in the world, because he is then in the state of his exteriors, and his interiors are not as yet uncovered. This is man's first state after death. But subsequently his face is changed, and becomes entirely differe... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=457 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 491 491. THE FIRST STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH. There are three states that man passes through after death before he enters either heaven or hell. The first state is the state of his exteriors, the second state the state of his interiors, and the third his state of preparation. These states man passes through in the world of spirits. There are some, however, that do not pass through them; but immed... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=491 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 498 498. This first state of man after death continues with some for days, with some for months, and with some for a year; but seldom with any one beyond a year; for a shorter or longer time with each one according to the agreement or disagreement of his interiors with his exteriors. For with everyone the exteriors and interior must make one and correspond. In the spiritual world no one is permitted t... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=498 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 511 511. In this second state the separation of evil spirits from good spirits takes place. For in the first state they are together, since while a spirit is in his exteriors he is as he was in the world, thus the evil with the good and the good with the evil; but it is otherwise when he has been brought into his interiors and left to his own nature or will. The separation of evil spirits from good sp... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=511 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen 531 531. Furthermore, the laws of spiritual life, the laws of civil life, and the laws of moral life are set forth in the ten commandments of the Decalogue; in the first three the laws of spiritual life, in the four that follow the laws of civil life, and in the last three the laws of moral life. Outwardly the merely natural man lives in accordance with the same commandments in the same way as the spi... http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=hh§ion=531
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