Afterlife
Subtitle: a guided tour of heaven and its wonders
By: Emanuel Swedenborg ; abridged and rearranged, Donald L. Rose, editor.
Contributors: Rose, Donald L.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers; Swedenborg Foundation, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Chester, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780877853251
Subjects: Heaven; Hell; Future life
Description: xvii, 196 p. 17 cm
Notes: Abridged and rearranged edition of Heaven and hell.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Donald L. Rose; title: Preface / by Emanuel Swedenborg; title: The world of spirits and our state after death; title: What the world of spirits is; title: Each of us is inwardly a spirit; title: Our revival from the dead and entry into eternal life; title: After death, we are in a complete human form; title: After death, we enjoy every sense, memory, thought, and affection we had in the world; title: Our nature after death depends on the kind of life we led in the world; title: Our first state after death; title: Our second state after death; title: Our third state after death is a state of instruction for people who are entering heaven; title: It is not so hard to lead a heaven-bound life as people think it is; title: Heaven; title: The heavens are made up of countless communities; title: Each community is a heaven in smaller form and each angel a heaven in smallest form; title: The whole heaven reflects a single individual; title: Each community in the heavens reflects a single individual; title: Every angel is in perfect human form; title: Owing to the Lord's divine human, in its entirety and its parts, heaven reflects a person; title: There is a correspondence of everything in heaven with everything in the human being; title: There is a correspondence of heaven with everything earthly; title: The sun in heaven; title: Light and warmth in heaven; title: How the states of angels in heaven change; title: Time in heaven; title: The clothes angels appear in; title: Angels' homes and houses; title: Space in heaven; title: Forms of government in heaven; title: Divine worship in heaven; title: The power of heaven's angels; title: The language of angels; title: How angels talk with us; title: Written materials in heaven; title: The wisdom of heaven's angels; title: The state of innocence of angels in heaven; title: The state of peace in heaven; title: The union of heaven with the human race; title: Heaven's union with us through the Word; title: Heaven and hell come from the human race; title: Non-Christians, or people outside the church, in heaven; title: Children in heaven; title: Rich and poor people in heaven; title: Marriages in heaven; title: What angels do in heaven; title: Heavenly joy and happiness; title: The vastness of heaven; title: Hell; title: The Lord governs the hells; title: The Lord does not cast anyone into hell : spirits cast themselves in; title: All the people who are in the hells are absorbed in evils and consequent falsities because of their loves of themselves and the world; title: Hellfire and gnashing of teeth; title: The malice and unspeakable skills of hellish spirits; title: The appearance, location, and number of the hells; title: The equilibrium between heaven and hell.