Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 101
Jesus said, I am the light of the world; he that followeth Me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John
8:12).
As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world (John
9:5).
Jesus said, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while
ye have the light, lest darkness overtake you. While ye have the
light believe in the light, that ye may be sons of light. I have come
a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in Me may not
abide in darkness (John 12:35, 36, 46).
Light has come into the world, but men have loved the
darkness rather than the light (John 3:19).
John says of the Lord:
This is the true light which lighteneth every man (John 1:9).
The people that sit in darkness have seen a great light, and to
them that were sitting in the shadow of death light is sprung up
(Matt. 4:16).
I will give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles (Isa. 42:6).
I have established Thee for a light of the Gentiles that Thou
mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth (Isa. 49:6).
The nations of them that are saved shall walk in his light
(Rev. 21:24).
Send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me (Ps.
43:3).
In these and other passages the Lord is called light from Divine
truth, which is from him; and the truth itself is likewise called
light. As light in the heavens is from the Lord as a sun, so when
he was transfigured before Peter, James, and John: