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"Whether a truth enlightens or makes one insane depends on the capacity of the receiver"

"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")

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Nov 14, 2021
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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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