Life After Death
LIFE AFTER DEATH
 The quotes are taken
from the Theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish
scientist and theologian. These works, together with the Old
and New Testaments, make up the teachings of the New Church.
"The Lord shall give His angels charge over you to keep
you in all your ways."
Psalm 91.11
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THE WAY TO HEAVEN
People do not die, but
simply cross from one world into another.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 445
Those who have heaven within them come into heaven.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 319
No one who believes in God and lives well is condemned.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 318
It is not as difficult to live the life that leads to heaven as is
believed.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 528
It is through a civic and moral life that a person receives a
spiritual life.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 528
Two essentials for salvation are the acknowledgment of God and
ceasing from evil because it is against God.
Divine Providence, paragraph 328
A person is regenerated when truth and good are joined in him;
that is, when faith is joined with charity.
Arcana Caelestia, paragraph 4353
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THE LIFE OF HEAVEN
 After death a person enjoys every
sense, and all the memory, thought and affection that he/she had
in the world, leaving nothing behind except the natural body.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 461
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings
with others.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 399
To grow old in heaven is to grow young.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 414
Some believe that heavenly
happiness is an idle life where others will serve them. However,
angels find their happiness in use, from use, and in accordance with
use.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 403
Spiritual things are more real than worldly things.
Apocalypse Explained, paragraph 1218
There are marriages in heaven as there are on earth. True marriage
is the bonding of two into one.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 367
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CHILDREN IN HEAVEN
 Every little child
at death, wherever born, within or outside the church, of
godly or ungodly parents, is accepted by the Lord.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 416
Immediately after death children
are entrusted to angels who during their life on earth
tenderly loved children.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 332
Everyone who departs
this world finds themself in a similar state of life, the
little child in a child's state and the youth, man or old
man in the state of a youth, man or old man; but
subsequently each one's state is changed.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 330
Everyone who dies in childhood enters heaven and is brought up and
instructed there.
Divine Providence, paragraph 324
Under the Lord's care children in the next life grow in stature and
wisdom.
Marriage Love, paragraph 411
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ANGELS
OF HEAVEN
 People are born to
become angels.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 315
Heaven and hell are from the human race. Those who lived in
the world in heavenly love and belief are in heaven. Those
who lived in hellish love and belief are in hell.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 311
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever
religion, have a place there.
Divine Providence, paragraph 330
The purpose of the creation of the universe is a heaven of
angels from the human race.
Divine Love and Wisdom, paragraph 329
People are in equilibrium. They are in freedom to accept good and
its truth from heaven or evil and its falsity from hell.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 537
Every angel is being perfected in wisdom to eternity.
Divine Providence, paragraph 334
The Lord's Divine Providence has for its goal a heaven from the
human race.
Divine Providence, paragraph 27
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ANGELS SERVE PEOPLE ON EARTH
 When angels are with people they live as it were in their
affections; and they are near in the degree to which people are
in good.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 391
There are two angels with each of us, one to influence what
belongs to our will and the other to influence what belongs to
our intellect.
Arcana Coelestia, paragraph 5978
Angels are assigned to infants by the Lord, to care for them.
True Christian Religion, paragraph 677
Evil spirits cannot approach little children... With little children
there are only good spirits and angels.
Arcana Coelestia, paragraph 5857
Angels are sent to people to watch over them and to lead them away
from evil affections and inspire them with good affections as far as
they will receive them in freedom.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 391
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ANGELS SERVE EACH OTHER
 In
the entire heaven all have the same language. Angels can express
in a moment what a human cannot in half an hour.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 326
Angels are in the most complete human form and enjoy every
sense.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 170
In heaven, delights of marriage advance toward heaven into
greater blessedness and happiness.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 386
The joys of heaven and eternal happiness are from love and wisdom
and the joining of these in usefulness.
Conjugial Love, paragraph 10
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with
others.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 399
Those who are in heaven are continually advancing toward the
springtime of life. To grow old in heaven is to grow young.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 414
Everyone is instructed after death by angels.
True Christian Religion, paragraph 255
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LIFE IN HEAVEN
 Angels who are in
the same goodness and truth recognize each other, as
relatives by blood and marriage do on earth.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 205
Heavenly joy is so great as to be beyond description.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 409
In heaven, as on earth, there are many forms of service. It
is impossible to enumerate the occupations of heaven.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 387
Every angel is an angel according to usefulness.
Conjugial Love, paragraph 207
Everyone who dies in infancy enters heaven, is brought up and
instructed there, and becomes an angel.
Divine Providence, paragraph 324
In heaven the angels live as men and women, and have dwellings that
differ according to each one's state of life.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 183
Heaven is a connection with the Lord.
Divine Providence, paragraph 20
Recommended reading
Angels in Action
by Robert H. Kirvin
Awaken From Death
by James F. Lawrence
Heaven and Hell
by Emanuel Swedenborg
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WHAT ABOUT HELL
 The Lord governs
both heaven and hell.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 537
The Lord does not cast anyone into hell. The person themself
does this.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 545
Everything good comes out of heaven and everything evil from hell.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 546
The love of self and the world dominate in
hell. Love to the Lord and the neighbor dominate in heaven.
True Christian Religion, paragraph 399
People are in spiritual equilibrium. If they choose evil and falsity
they connect themselves to hell.
True Christian Religion, paragraph 383
People in the hells are governed by their fears.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 553
The Lord does not punish; the punishment comes from the evil itself.
Heaven and Hell, paragraph 550
RECOMMENDED READING
A BOOK ABOUT
DYING
by Robert H. Kirvin
AWAKEN FROM DEATH
by James F. Lawrence
HEAVEN AND HELL
by Emanuel Swedenborg
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