Saturday, December 21, 2024

DP 60 - Paths in the Spiritual World

DP 60

Among the things people need to know about
is also the angelic heaven
for everyone who has any religion
thinks about it and wishes to go there.
Yet heaven is granted only to those
who know the way to it
and walk in that way.
This way can be known to some extent, too,
from knowing the character
of those who constitute heaven,
and from knowing that no one
becomes an angel or comes into heaven
except one who brings
an angelic character with him from the world.
Present in an angelic character, moreover,
is a knowledge of the way from walking in it,
and a walking in the way through a knowledge of it.

The spiritual world also has in it actual paths
which lead to every society of heaven
and to every society of hell;
and everyone sees his own path
as though of himself.
He sees it
because there are paths there for every love,
and love reveals the path
and leads a person to his fellows.
No one sees any other paths
than those of his own love.

It is apparent from this
that angels are simply
embodiments of heavenly loves,
for otherwise they would not have seen
the paths leading to heaven.

 

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