Heaven and Hell

Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• The God Of Heaven Is The Lord
• It Is The Divine Of The Lord That Makes Heaven
• In Heaven The Divine Of The Lord Is Love To Him And Charity Towards The Neighbor
• Heaven Is Divided Into Two Kingdoms
• There Are Three Heavens
• The Heavens Consist Of Innumerable Societies
• Each Society Is A Heaven In A Smaller Form, And Each Angel In The Smallest Form
• All Heaven In The Aggregate Reflects A Single Man
• Each Society In Heaven Reflects A Single Man
• Therefore Every Angel Is In A Complete Human Form
• It Is From The Lord's Divine Human That Heaven As A Whole And In Part Reflects Man
• There Is A Correspondence Of All Things Of Heaven With All Things Of Man
• There Is A Correspondence Of Heaven With All Things Of The Earth
• The Sun In Heaven
• Light And Heat In Heaven
• The Four Quarters In Heaven
• Changes Of State Of The Angels In Heaven
• Time In Heaven
• Representatives And Appearances In Heaven
• The Garments With Which Angels Appear Clothed
• The Places Of Abode And Dwellings Of Angels
• Space In Heaven
• The Form Of Heaven Which Determines Affiliations And Communications There
• Governments In Heaven
• Divine Worship In Heaven
• The Power Of The Angels Of Heaven
• The Speech Of Angels
• The Speech Of Angels With Man
• Writings In Heaven
• The Wisdom Of The Angels Of Heaven
• The State Of Innocence Of Angels In Heaven
• The State Of Peace In Heaven
• The Conjunction Of Heaven With The Human Race
• Conjunction Of Heaven With Man By Means Of The Word
• Heaven And Hell Are From The Human Race
• The Heathen, Or Peoples Outside Of The Church, In Heaven
• Little Children In Heaven
• The Wise And The Simple In Heaven
• The Rich And The Poor In Heaven
• Marriages In Heaven
• The Employments Of Angels In Heaven
• Heavenly Joy And Happiness
• The Immensity Of Heaven
• What The World Of Spirits Is
• In Respect To His Interiors Every Man Is A Spirit
• The Resuscitation Of Man From The Dead And His Entrance Into Eternal Life
• Man After Death Is In A Complete Human Form
• After Death Man Is Possessed Of Every Sense, And Of All The Memory, Thought, And Affection, That He Had In The World, Leaving Nothing Behind Except His Earthly Body
• Man After Death Is Such As His Life Had Been In The World
• The Delights Of Every One's Life Are Changed After Death Into Things That Correspond
• The First State Of Man After Death
• The Second State Of Man After Death
• Third State Of Man After Death, Which Is A State Of Instruction For Those Who Enter Heaven
• No One Enters Heaven By Mercy Apart From Means
• It Is Not So Difficult To Live The Life That Leads To Heaven As Is Believed
• The Lord Rules The Hells
• The Lord Casts No One Into Hell; The Spirit Casts Himself Down
• All Who Are In The Hells Are In Evils And In Falsities Therefrom Derived From The Loves Of Self And Of The World
• What Hell Fire Is And What The Gnashing Of Teeth Is
• The Malice And Heinous Artifices Of Infernal Spirits
• The Appearance, Situation, And Number Of The Hells
• The Equilibrium Between Heaven And Hell
• By Means Of The Equilibrium Between Heaven And Hell Man Is In Freedom