The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

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.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

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

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.