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Religion Quotes
As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded...
Good vs. Evil Quotes
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evi...
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.3. Energy is Eternal Delight. (2.7-2.8)
Literature and Writing Quotes
When I came home, on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat-sided steep frowns over the present world, I saw a mighty Devil folded in black clouds hovering on the sides of the rock; with corrod...