Wit & Attitude Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedenborg drops a metaphysical grenade with the calm confidence of a man writing lab notes. The sentence is engineered to sound like a theorem: if A has been demonstrated, then B necessarily follows. That dry, procedural tone is the point. He wants the reader to feel that the afterlife is not a matter of mood, tradition, or clerical intimidation, but a system whose rules can be observed and inferred. In the 18th century, when “science” was becoming a cultural authority, Swedenborg borrows its posture to make theology feel unavoidable.

The specific intent is clarifying and disciplining: every human being who has died is already sorted, no limbo, no ambiguity, no cosmic waiting room. That closes the door on sentimental uncertainty and also on speculative loopholes. The subtext is sharper: heaven and hell aren’t distant places run by a capricious God; they’re social and psychological realities generated by human life itself. “Heaven and Hell are from the human race” reframes salvation as anthropology. Your eternal destination isn’t assigned from outside so much as crystallized from what you’ve made yourself capable of loving.

There’s also a quiet political edge. If heaven and hell arise from the human race, then institutions that claim sole access to them look less like gatekeepers and more like narrators. Swedenborg isn’t abolishing judgment; he’s relocating it, from courtroom to character. The line works because it fuses two powerful 18th-century impulses: a hunger for moral certainty and a new faith that the universe, even the invisible part, can be mapped.