Quotes from the World for Tuesday 06/12/MMXII

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honoré De Balzac
Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. It later entered the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). Seraphita, chapter III, First published as part of Romans et contes philosophiques (1831), then the Etudes philosophiques (1835).

Explanation of Swedenborg’s philosophy.