"Whether a truth enlightens or makes one insane depends on the capacity of the receiver"
Read along: Heaven and Hell, chs. 56 - 63 ("By means of the equilibrium between heaven and hell humanity is in freedom")
Hello friends,
We did it, another book behind us (after today). Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, an intimidatingly dense, esoteric tome, written in dry, barely penetrable prose, will now reside as a distant memory, or will perhaps become an “angel in our heaven.” Having worked through it together, can we see now what made this text so influential for so man…
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