Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 64
then must be said of Divine sight, which is the inmost and
highest of all? Because thoughts have such extension, all things
of heaven are shared with everyone there, so, too, are all things
of the Divine which makes heaven and fills it, as has been
shown in the preceding chapters.
86. Those in heaven wonder that men can believe themselves
to be intelligent who, in thinking of God, think about
something invisible, that is, inconceivable under any form; and
that they can call those who think differently unintelligent and
simple, when the reverse is the truth. They add, “Let those who
thus believe themselves to be intelligent examine themselves,
whether they do not look upon nature as God, some the nature
that is before their eyes, others the invisible side of nature; and
whether they are not so blind as not to know what God is,
what an angel is, what a spirit is, what their soul is which is to
live after death, what the life of heaven in man is, and many
other things that constitute intelligence; when yet those whom
they call simple know all these things in their way, having an
idea of their God that he is the Divine in a human form, of an
angel that he is a heavenly man, of their soul that is to live after
death that it is like an angel, and of the life of heaven in man
that it is living in accord with the Divine commandments.”
Such the angels call intelligent and fitted for heaven; but the
others, on the other hand, they call not intelligent.