Science Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

A scientist calling something "Divine truth" is already a provocation: Swedenborg is trying to smuggle revelation into the language of systems. The verb "flows" does heavy lifting here. Truth, in this model, is not argued into existence or discovered by grit and method; it moves like a current, with a source, a direction, and an endpoint. That choice quietly demotes human reason from judge to receiver. Your job isn’t to invent meaning, it’s to align your inner plumbing so the right substance can pass through.

The line also sketches a cosmic supply chain: Lord -> Divine love -> Divine truth -> heaven. Love isn’t sentimental garnish; it’s the generator. Truth is a derivative, not an independent authority. That’s a subtle but radical reordering, especially for an era that was beginning to treat "truth" as something you could isolate, test, and own. Swedenborg’s intent is to make theology feel like physics: a universe governed by correspondences, influx, and laws of spiritual circulation.

Context matters: this is Enlightenment-era Europe, where science is earning cultural supremacy and religion is under pressure to justify itself. Swedenborg’s subtext reads like an answer to that pressure. He’s not rejecting scientific thinking; he’s attempting to annex its credibility. By framing heaven as the natural destination of this flow, he also implies a hierarchy: heaven is not merely a place but the realm best adapted to truth’s movement. Earthly confusion, by contrast, becomes a blockage problem - moral and perceptual, not merely intellectual.