You pick up a book about spirits and angels, you’re interested to hear about spiritual and paranormal experiences. SO WHY ALL THIS TALK ABOUT GOD?

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With thanks to the Swedenborg Society, London, for permission to use the Harley Translation (1958) of Swedenborg's original Latin text, Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen. Visit www.swedenborg.org.uk

PROPRIUM “it is the Divine of the Lord that makes heaven, and not the angels from anything of their proprium.” (paragraph 8)

[from Latin, “proprium”, “proprio”] “appropriate” = to make one’s own, or claim as one’s own having self identity, analogous to the “ego” “... the Lord dwells with the angels of heaven in what is His own, …” (paragraph 12)

INFLUX “The angels of the inmost heaven also clearly perceive and feel the influx, and the more of it they receive, the more they seem to themselves to be in heaven,” (earlier in paragraph 8)

“it is the Divine proceeding from the Lord which inflows with the angels and is received by them, that makes heaven in general and in part.” (paragraph 7)

“there is but one fountain of life and that man's life is a stream therefrom, which, if it did not unceasingly come into existence from its fountain, would immediately flow away.” (paragraph 9)

Everything that flows in from the Divine is good and truth, and is life … it is by rejecting and blocking that flow that it is turned into evil. “... from that one fountain of life, which is the Lord, nothing proceeds except Divine Good and Divine Truth which affect each one in accordance with the reception. … those who reject and suffocate them turn them into hell, for they turn good into evil and truth into falsity, thus life into death.” (paragraph 9, section 2)

“... doing good for the sake of good, they call good from the Divine, and they say it is this good that makes heaven because this Good is the Lord.” (Paragraph 9, section 3)

“Good from the Lord is the Lord with the angels” (paragraph 12)

HIS OTHER BOOKS Interaction of the Soul and Body, published in 1769. Find a copy at: https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/exposition/translation/interaction-of-the-soul-and-body-vickers/ https://swedenborg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/swedenborg_foundation_interaction_of_soul_and_body.pdf https://www.booktopia.com.au/interaction-of-the-soul-and-body-emanuel-swedenborg/ebook/9781465573506.html?source=pla&gclid=CjwKCAjwy42FBhB2EiwAJY0yQtSJZh-OU8WuHVHMhsHFywQOr1Zf9sKGg9KW-bnTQrF3ePYPtpFtQxoCYIAQAvD_BwE https://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Soul-Body-Forgotten-Books/dp/1606201344