Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

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that constitute intelligence and their intentions through
the values that constitute love.
All preachers are from the Lord’s spiritual kingdom and
none from his heavenly kingdom. The reason they are
from the spiritual kingdom is that people there are
attuned to truths that stem from what is good, and all
preach ing comes from truths. The reason none is from his
heavenly kingdom is that the people there are attuned to
the good of love, and see and grasp truths on this basis, but
do not talk about them.
Even though the angels who are in the heavenly king -
dom grasp and see truths, there are still sermons there
because sermons are means of enlightenment in the truths
that the angels already know and lead to further perfec -
tion by means of many things they have not known
before. The moment they hear them, they acknowledge
them and therefore grasp them. The truths they grasp they
also love, and by living according to them they make them
part of their life. They say that living by truths is loving
the Lord.
All the doctrines that govern the preaching focus on
life as their end, none on faith apart from life.
The Power of Heaven’s Angels
People who do not know anything about the spiritual
world and its inflow into the natural world cannot grasp
the fact that angels have power. They think that angels
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