One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

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.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.