Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes about Evil

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People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.

Emanuel Swedenborg

People, Evil, And Love

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Evil, Doe, Persons

"Apocalypse Explained". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1180, www.sacred-texts.com. 1911.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Punishment, Evil

Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

Emanuel Swedenborg

Men, Long, Evil

Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Last Judgment, and the Babylon Destroyed: so that all the predictions in the Apocalypse are at this day fulfilled ... Translated from the Latin, etc. (A new translation.)”, p.38

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Mean, Evil, Doe

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Evil, Doe

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Men, Evil, Separation

Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster