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

AFTERLIFE
face, is virtually thoughtfulness itself appearing to open
per cep tion. When people look at this form, its beauty is
unut ter able, affecting the very inmost life of the mind
with thoughtfulness. In a word, to grow old in heaven is to
grow young. People who have lived in love for the Lord and
in thoughtfulness toward their neighbor are forms like this,
or beauties like this, in the other life. All angels are forms
like this, in infinite variety. This is what makes heaven.
The Vastness of Heaven
The vastness of the Lord’s heaven follows from many of
the things that have been presented above, especially
from the fact that heaven is from the human race, not only
that portion of it born within the church but also the
portion born outside it. This means that heaven includes
everyone who has lived a good life since the very begin -
ning of our planet.
Anyone familiar with the continents and regions and
nations of this world may gather what a multitude of
people there are on our whole globe. Anyone who goes
into the mathematics of it will discover that thousands
and thousands of people die on any given day, making
hun dreds of thousands or millions every year; and this has
been going on since the earliest times, thousands of years
ago. All of these people have arrived in the other world,
called the spiritual world, after their decease, and they are
still arriving.
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