The Bible

 

Genesis 1:12

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12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Commentary

 

Resurrection, the first

  

'The first resurrection,' mentioned in Revelation 20:5, 6, does not mean a first resurrection, but the essence and primary part of resurrection, which is salvation and eternal life. There is only one resurrection to life. A second does not happen, and is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 6; Apocalypse Revealed 851; Revelation 20:5-6)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #1528

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1528. The life that goes with evil desires and resulting pleasures sometimes appears as a coal fire among evil spirits. The life of the Lord's love and mercy which flows into them is turned into this kind of fire. The life of their delusions however looks like the glow from that fire - a glow that is dim and does not reach very far. But indeed when the life that stems from mutual love draws near, that burning is put out and converted into cold, while that dim light is converted into darkness. For evil spirits dwell in darkness, and what is astonishing, some even love darkness and detest the light.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.