Wicked
Swedenborg several times associates the “wicked” with “malevolence,” defines “malevolence” as “destroying good, interior and exterior,” and says that the wicked do this by disowning the desire for good and understanding for good that come from the Lord and actively denying the Lord.
We might say, then, that wickedness is evil on the hunt, looking for all that is good and true specifically so it can attack and destroy it.
(Ссылки: Apocalypse Explained 661; Arcana Coelestia 7590, 9249, 9264)
Arcana Coelestia # 8548
8548. EXODUS CHAPTER 17.
TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY
Anyone who does not receive spiritual life, that is, who is not born anew from the Lord, cannot enter heaven, as the Lord teaches in John,
Truly, truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3.
