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

AFTERLIFE
Let no one believe, then, that there is anything we have
thought or done in secret that will remain hidden after
death. Believe rather that absolutely everything will
come out into broad daylight.
I have talked with any number of people who were
regarded as learned in the world because of their knowl -
edge of such ancient languages as Hebrew and Greek and
Latin, but who had not developed their rational function -
ing by means of the things that were written in those lan -
guages. Some of them seemed as simple as people who did
not know anything about those languages; some of them
seemed dense, though there still remained a pride, as
though they were wise than other people.
Spirits and angels have memory just as we do. What
they hear and see and think and intend and do stays with
them; and through their memory they are constantly
devel oping their rational ability forever. This is why spir -
its and angels are being perfected in intelligence and wis -
dom through experiences of what is true and good just the
way we are.
I have been shown that spirits and angels have memory
by a great deal of experience as well. I have seen every -
thing they had thought and done called up from their
memory both in public and in private, when they were
with other spirits. I have also seen people who had been
focused on some truth from simple virtue become steeped
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