DIVINE LOVE and WISDOM

"If we look at the world with natural eyes alone, that is, from a materialistic viewpoint, only the natural, material world will be seen. Focusing on the earth alone closes spiritual sight.How can we look up if looking down?"- Emanuel Swedenborg

"Every created thing is in itself inanimate and dead, but it is animated and given life by this: the Divine is in it, and it is in the Divine."- Emanuel Swedenborg

ANGELIC CHARACTER

"We cannot become angels, that is, come into heaven, unless we bring something of an angelic character from living in this world. Present in this character is a knowledge of the way from walking in it and a walking in the way through a knowledge of it." -Emanuel Swedenborg

HIGH STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

"We cannot deny that every day we have all sorts of occasions for feeling confused, mistreated or upset. But, in spite of everything, we can preserve or re-establish higher states of consciousness within ourselves."- Omraam M. Aivanhov

GOODNESS OF GOD

"The Lord never judges anyone except from love, for he desires to raise all into heaven,and if it were possible, eaven to himself. For the Lord is Mercy and Godness, and these cannot possibly condemn anyone." - Emanuel Swedenborg

HAPPY LIFE

"Thought or understanding about God does bring us closer to God. But living a good life conjoins us to God and is the way to ever-increasing happiness." -Emanuel Swedenborg

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE & EVIL

"It is said in the Genesis that God put Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and forbade them to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge and evil.But they disobeyed and were driven out of paradise. Whenever humans reject all spiritual and moral authority in order to do whatever they please,they unwittingly repeat Adam and Eve's transgression." -Omraam Mikhael Avivanhov