Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.