Science Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

Exploration becomes judgment in Swedenborg's hands, and judgment becomes logistics. The line reads like a procedural memo from the afterlife: assess what people are, sort the moral inventory, relocate the assets. That oddly bureaucratic cadence is the point. Swedenborg - trained in the Enlightenment habit of classification - imports the scientist's impulse to observe and separate into a spiritual register, where "visitation" isn't comfort but inspection.

The specific intent is to naturalize morality as something legible and sortable. "Exploring what the men are" treats character as an empirical object: not what people claim, but what they consist of when tested. The phrase "separation of the good from the evil" then frames ethics less as a struggle within a person than as a filtration process performed on a population. The passive voice does quiet work: "the good are then removed" suggests an impersonal mechanism, as if heaven has a conveyor belt.

Subtext: reassurance for the righteous and a warning for everyone else. By depicting evil as what's "left behind", Swedenborg turns damnation into abandonment - not fiery punishment but being stranded in the residue. It's a chilling moral ecology: goodness is portable and upwardly mobile; evil is sediment.

Context matters. Swedenborg lived at the hinge of scientific modernity and religious certainty, a polymath who wrote on anatomy and mining before claiming visionary access to the spirit world. This sentence feels like that hybrid mind trying to keep mysticism respectable by giving it method. Salvation, in other words, is rendered as a system that can be audited.