In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.