What is NOT permanent!
Permanent spiritual growth, by Swedenborg, is via Joint action of (good) love with (true) wisdom.
NOT from any one of the following things by itself:
- belief (faith) alone,
- (personal acceptance of) vicarious atonement,
- obedience alone,
- knowledge, even of truths (wisdom) alone,
- good intentions or love alone,
- suffering alone,
- elevated, expanded, rotated, vibrated (etc) consciousness alone.
Swedenborg gives reasons for all these claims (see later).