A Conversation with Angels concerning God

One thing I learned early on is to question what I believe, to determine if it is true or not, and to follow the truth wherever it leads. One of the most interesting finds I have come across are the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, who recorded the findings of over 25 years of continuous revelation from heavenly visions. He was a proven clairvoyant, and only became known as the author of these anonymous writings once one of his clairvoyant visions became public. He began with dreams, and practiced slowing his breath, until he could enter a trance without even breathing. I have seen this demonstrated by some eastern yogis.

Swedenborg would enter a deep trance, until his internal vision was opened, and the spiritual world was revealed to him. He then began encountering the angels of the higher realms. The angels then noticed him, and started to examine his internal thoughts. Here is one of his encounters, described in his work, True Christian Religion:

"On one occasion, awaking from sleep I fell into a profound meditation about God; and looking up I saw above me in heaven an exceedingly bright light of oval form; and as I fixed my gaze upon it the light withdrew to the sides and formed a circle; and then, behold, heaven opened to me, and I saw magnificent scenes, and angels standing in a circle on the southern side of the opening talking together. As I greatly wished to hear what they were saying, I was permitted first to hear the sound of their voices, which was full of heavenly love, and afterwards what they said, which was full of wisdom from that love. They were talking together about the One God, and conjunction with Him, and salvation thereby. They uttered things ineffable, most of which could not possibly be expressed in any natural language. But at different times I had been in company with the angels in heaven itself, and at such times had been in a state like theirs and in a similar language, and consequently I was now able to understand them, and select from what they said some things that can be rationally expressed in the words of natural language.

...the angels perceived in my thought those ideas of God that prevail in the Christian Church respecting a trinity of persons in unity and a unity of persons in a trinity; also respecting a birth of the Son of God from eternity; and they said, "What is your thought? Are you not thinking from natural light, which is not in accord with our spiritual light? Unless, therefore, you dismiss these ideas we must shut up heaven against you and depart." But I said, "Enter, I pray you, more deeply into my thought, and you will see, perhaps, that there is an agreement between us." This they did; and they saw that by three persons I understood three Divine attributes going forth, Creation, Redemption, and Regeneration, and that these are attributes of one God; also that by the birth of the Son of God from eternity I understood His birth foreseen from eternity and provided in time; (also that to think of the Son born of God from eternity would, to me, be not above nature and reason but contrary to nature and reason; while to think of the Son born of God in time through the virgin Mary as the only Son of God, and the only-begotten, is very different; and to believe otherwise than this would be a monstrous error. I then told them that the source of my natural thought about a trinity and unity of persons, and the birth of a Son of God from eternity, was the doctrine of faith in the church which has its name from Athanasius. Then the angels said, "Very well," and asked me to say from them that only those who approach the very God of heaven and earth can enter heaven, because heaven is heaven from that only God, and that this God is Jesus Christ, who is the Lord Jehovah, from eternity the Creator, in time the Redeemer, and to eternity the Regenerator, thus who is at once Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and this, they said, is the gospel to be preached. After this the heavenly light which had been seen before over the opening returned, and gradually descended and filled the interiors of my mind, and enlightened my ideas on the trinity and unity of God; and the ideas which I had first formed on these subjects, and which had been merely natural, I then saw separated as chaff is separated from wheat by winnowing, and carried away as by a wind to the north of heaven, and scattered."



The idea that God is divided into a trinity of three beings, and yet one, is false. Problem is, the majority of modern Christianity is founded on this principal, which is based on a false doctrine that was invented in the 4th century A.D. As it is regarded as a foundational belief, most of Christian theology hinges on this belief. The older Christians - mostly those in the Near East - were eventually declared heretics by the Roman Catholic Church.

Once Swedenborg was corrected in his thought, further, deeper revelations took place of a new form of Christianity - based on what was originally taught from scripture - that would have focused attention on one God, whose true nature is that of Love itself, who loves all whom He created, one who condemns no one to hell but desires happiness for us all.