| As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its
advent [French Revolution]: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg*
is the angel sitting at the tomb; his writings are the linen cloths folded
up. Now is the dominion of Edom, & the return of Adam into paradise;
see Isaiah xxxiv and xxxv
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 & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell. *"Church of the New Jerusalem" |