Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen

ISBN-10: 1515315592
ISBN-13: 9781515315599
Pages: 560
Language: English
Published: 2015-08-01
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Description

"The first essential is to know who the God of heaven is, since everything else depends upon that Throughout the whole of heaven no other than the Lord is acknowledged as the God of heaven" Preface Concerning Heaven and Hell 1 The God of Heaven is The Lord 2 It is the Divine of The Lord that Makes Heaven 3 In Heaven the Divine of The Lord is Love to Him and Charity Towards the Neighbor 4 Heaven is Divided into Two Kingdoms 5 There are Three Heavens 6 The Heavens Consist of Innumerable Societies 7 Each Society is a Heaven in a Smaller Form, and Each Angel in the Smallest Form 8 All Heaven in the Aggregate Reflects a Single Man 9 Each Society in Heaven Reflects a Single Man 10 Therefore Every Angel is in a Complete Human Form 11 It is From the Lord's Divine Human That Heaven As a Whole and in Part Reflects Man 12 There is a Correspondence of All Things of Heaven With All Things of Man 13 There is a Correspondence of Heaven With All Things of the Earth 14 The Sun in Heaven 15 Light and Heat in Heaven 16 The Four Quarters in Heaven 17 Changes of State of the Angels in Heaven 18 Time in Heaven 19 Representatives and Appearances in Heaven 20 The Garments With Which Angels Appear Clothed 21 The Places of Abode and Dwellings of Angels 22 Space in Heaven 23 The Form of Heaven Which Determines Affiliations and Communications There 24 Governments in Heaven 25 Divine Worship in Heaven 26 The Power of the Angels of Heaven 27 The Speech of Angels 28 The Speech of Angels With Man 29 Writings in Heaven 30 The Wisdom of the Angels of Heaven 31 The State of Innocence of Angels in Heaven 32 The State of Peace in Heaven 33 The Conjunction of Heaven With the Human Race 34 Conjunction of Heaven With Man By Means of the Word 35 Heaven and Hell Are From the Human Race 36 The Heathen, or Peoples Outside of the Church, in Heaven 37 Little Children in Heaven 38 The Wise and the Simple in Heaven 39 The Rich and the Poor in Heaven 40 Marriages in Heaven 41 The Employments of Angels in Heaven 42 Heavenly Joy and Happiness 43 The Immensity of Heaven 44 What the World of Spirits is 45 In Respect To His Interiors Every Man is a Spirit 46 The Resuscitation of Man From the Dead and His Entrance Into Eternal Life 47 Man After Death is in a Complete Human Form 48 After Death Man is Possessed of Every Sense, and of All the Memory, Except His Earthly Body 49 Man After Death is Such As His Life Had Been in the World 50 The Delights of Every One's Life Are Changed After Death Into Things That Correspond 51 The First State of Man After Death 52 The Second State of Man After Death 53 Third State of Man After Death, Which is a State of Instruction For Those Who Enter Heaven 54 No One Enters Heaven By Mercy Apart From Means 55 It is Not So Difficult To Live the Life That Leads To Heaven As is Believed 56 The Lord Rules the Hells 57 The Lord Casts No One Into Hell; the Spirit Casts Himself Down 58 All Who Are in the Hells Are in Evils and in Falsities Therefrom Derived From the Loves of Self and of the World 59 What Hell Fire is and What the Gnashing of Teeth is 60 The Malice and Heinous Artifices of Infernal Spirits 61 The Appearance, Situation, and Number of the Hells 62 The Equilibrium Between Heaven and Hell 63 By Means of the Equilibrium Between Heaven and Hell Man is in Freedom