On Legacy — Emanuel Swedenborg
"In the spiritual body, 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."
— Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, 1758
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Emanuel Swedenborg spent fifty-six years becoming exactly the person the world expected. A respected scientist. An engineer. A member of Sweden's House of Nobility, seated on the Board of Mines. He had built a name that would have carried him comfortably to the end.
Then, in his mid-fifties, something shifted. He began having visions — vivid, undeniable, impossible to explain away. He could have dismissed them to protect the reputation he'd spent a lifetime building. Instead, he spent his remaining decades writing about the soul, the afterlife, the nature of love itself — risking everything he'd been known for.
He wasn't remembered for the mines.
He was remembered for what he loved enough to risk it all for.
Molins J.
If the truest measure of who you are is what you love,
what would that reveal about you right now?
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