Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.
Emanuel SwedenborgThis I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
Emanuel SwedenborgA person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
Emanuel Swedenborg