Science Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedenborg smuggles a hard-edged moral finality into the calm syntax of a lab report. The line reads like a proof: "is evident from this" signals not faith but demonstration, as if eternity were an observable consequence of a change in state. Coming from a scientist-turned-mystic, that posture matters. He is arguing for the afterlife in the language of mechanism: the human being "then [is] spiritual, and no longer natural". Death is not a metaphor or a doorway; it's a phase transition.

The subtext is bracingly anti-modern. If the self is not corrigible after death, then life isn't a rehearsal and the afterlife isn't a second draft. "Man's state cannot be changed" is the theological equivalent of setting epoxy: whatever you are when the natural falls away is what you're stuck with. It's a rebuke to the comforting idea that time, punishment, or postmortem insight will inevitably improve you. Swedenborg's heaven and hell aren’t primarily places; they’re continuations of interior preference. You keep the shape of your desires.

Context sharpens the intent. Writing in the Enlightenment era, with rationalism and material science destabilizing older certainties, Swedenborg offers a counter-model that borrows rational authority while redirecting it toward spiritual ontology. The argument also polices responsibility: if eternity is continuity, then everyday choices are not ephemeral. The quote’s chill comes from its refusal to flatter human plasticity. Redemption, if it happens, must happen before the lights go out.