new church life: jan uary / february 201 4
heavenly and spiritual have a sweet kind of language that flows along like the
gentlest of breezes, caressing the listening ear and softening the actual words.
The reason for the fluidity and charm of their speech is that the heavenly
goodness present in their thoughts has the same qualities, and that there is
no discrepancy between their words and their thoughts. All sweet-sounding
harmony in the other life comes from goodness and charity.”
Swedenborg tells of a spirit new to the spiritual world who was used to
confrontation and speaking from anger, and expected the same in return, but
was reduced to tears by angels speaking to him instead from pure love.
That is the power of love. That is the model for our own speech. Swedenborg
also says that the best way to become an a