Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 506
Extracts from Arcana Coelestia respecting
the Freedom of Man, Influx, and
the Spirits through Whom
Communications Are Effected
FREEDOM
All freedom pertains to love or affection, since whatever a man loves he
does freely (n. 2870, 3158, 8987, 8990, 9585, 9591).
Since freedom pertains to love it is the life of everyone (n. 2873).
Nothing appears to be man’s own except what is from freedom (n. 2880).
There is heavenly freedom and infernal freedom (n. 2870, 2873, 2874,
9589, 9590).
[2] Heavenly freedom pertains to heavenly love, or the love of good and
truth (n. 1947, 2870, 2872).
And as the love of good and truth is from the Lord freedom itself consists
in being led by the Lord (n. 892, 905, 2872, 2886, 2890–2892, 9096, 9586,
9587, 9589–9591).
Man is led into heavenly freedom by the Lord through regeneration (n.
2874, 2875, 2882, 2892).
Man must have freedom in order to be regenerated (n. 1937, 1947, 2876,
2881, 3145, 3146, 3158, 4031, 8700).
In no other way can the love of good and truth be implanted in man, and
appropriated by him seemingly as his own (n. 2877, 2879, 2880, 2888).
Nothing is conjoined to man in a state of compulsion (n. 2875, 8700).
If man could be reformed by compulsion all would be saved (n. 2881).