The spiritual diary of Emanuel Swedenborg Volume 5 ; being the record during twenty years of his supernatural experience Emanuel Swedenborg

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... adultery is not sin, renders a man an adulterer;--shown from those things which have been said on this subject in The Doetrine of Life.1 Every conclusion in the mind constitutes endeavour in the body, which is the essential act.)) ((I enquired, respecting cats, why they possess such a nature as they do. It was stated, that, with the female cat, the pleasure of fighting is first excited, and that this iB observed by the male cat, and, when this passes off, copulation takes place.)) 6. ((I told adulterers, that, in heaven, there is perpetual potency; and they said, if they had known this in the world, they would never have committed whoredom, so that they might come into heaven. But I said, that, in heaven, it is permitted to love only the married partner, in hell to commit whoredom at pleasure; and I asked whether, in this case, they would wish to be in hell, or in heaven; but I was unable to extort a reply from them.)) 7. ((If a man concentrates his love upon his wife, by shunning adultery as sin, then love with its potency increases daily; but if men take from that love and consume it with harlots, conjugial love becomes like chaff, and dies.)) 8. ((I mentioned about a woman, that she said, that it is impossible to love one"s wife, because it becomes usual. But the angels said that she is mistaken; and that what is usual, when love is truly conjugial, is the plane in which enjoyments form themselves, from within, as upon a rose bed; and that every separate rose becomes a plane in which interior enjoyments are formed and variegated, and this to eternity.)) 9. ((Fury as it were inflames infernals, when they become sensible of the sphere of conjugial love,--from much experience. 10. (((((Married partners together, or conjugial love, is the very image and lik... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The spiritual diary of Emanuel Swedenborg Volume 5 ; being the record during twenty years of his supernatural experience (Emanuel Swedenborg)