the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the Image and the Likeness)

“While the gathering of the Body, according to the Revelation, will be the work of a short time, yet we are told that the perfecting of this body, the perfecting of its dominion over the earth, will take a thousand years. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that there is any one now living, even [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xix (the Likeness of God – man becoming Yahveh Elohim)

“By virtue of the foregoing conditions brought about by being born of the Spirit, men are to be drawn together by one common impulse, to unite in one organic structure, a structure which was revealed in the symbology of the temple of God, the cubical city. Herein is found the great truth referred to by [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xiv (the angels of god)

“Swedenborg had a vague and imperfect idea regarding the spiritual heavens. He claimed that he visited many heavens of souls in their different degrees of unfoldment. Be that as it may, one thing is certain – there are centers, so to speak, where souls of like development are gathered together, all the way from the [...]