Emanuel Swedenborg

homo sibi ipsi adsciscit societates, seu semet ipsum ponit in societate talium, nam simile simili associatur, ut pro exemplo, qui avarus est, is adsciscit societates similium qui in tali cupiditate sunt; qui amat se prae aliis, et contemnit alios, is adsciscit similes; qui in vindictis jucundum habet, is tales qui in simili jucundo sunt; ita in reliquis;

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  1. shinichi Post author

    Arcana Coelestia
    4067
    [3]
    translated by Elliott

    A person chooses certain communities for himself, that is, he places himself within one of these; for like is brought into association with like. For example, one who is grasping chooses for himself communities of like-minded spirits who are motivated by his kind of desire; one who loves himself pre-eminently and despises others chooses for himself others who are like himself; while one who takes delight in acts of revenge chooses for himself such as delight in these; and so on with everyone else.

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  2. shinichi Post author

    天使との交流
    http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~shinju/tensi%20to%20no%20koryu.htm

    天界の秘義
    4067
    3番

    その人間が自分自身へこれらの社会を招き寄せるのである、すなわち、かれはこのような霊たちの社会に自分自身を置くのである、なぜなら似た者は似た者とともになるからである。例えば、貪欲な人間はそれと同じ欲念の中にいるところの類似の霊どもの社会を自分自身に招き寄せるのである。自分自身を他の者にまさって愛し、他の者を軽蔑する人間はその人間自身に似た者らを招き寄せるのである。復讐を歓ぶ者は同じような歓びの中にいる者を招き寄せるのであり、このことは他の凡ゆる場合にも言われるのである。

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