“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”

“In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, bu...”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.”

“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.”

“All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.”