WorkEmanuel Swedenborg

De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de Inferno [Heaven and Hell]

De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de Inferno [Heaven and Hell] (1758) Inferred

InferredThe passage on heaven as a 'kingdom of uses' and hell as a 'condition of the mind' characterized by voluntary ignorance is characteristic of Swedenborg's theology; no work is named. This isolated passage on p. 56, following the van Artevelde excerpts, describes heaven as a 'kingdom of uses' and hell as a 'condition of the mind' — vocabulary and theology that are distinctively Swedenborgian.

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Documented 1839

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Journal April 1839

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“That the condition of good men, in heaven, which is a kingdom of uses, is a state of total separation from error and from evil – infinite in its varieties of good and eternal in the duration of its enjoyments / That the condition of the wicked in another life, is not a state of arbitrary punishment and external tortures, inflicted by the anger of omnipotence, but a condition of the mind, in which truth is prevented, and good rejected, and hence a state of voluntary ignorance, crime, and misery.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

Inferred The passage on heaven as a 'kingdom of uses' and hell as a 'condition of the mind' characterized by voluntary ignorance is characteristic of Swedenborg's theology; no work is named. This isolated passage on p. 56, following the van Artevelde excerpts, describes heaven as a 'kingdom of uses' and hell as a 'condition of the mind' — vocabulary and theology that are distinctively Swedenborgian.