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- A Covenant and A Testimony
- The Happiness of Eternal Life
- For the Sake of Life
- “To Will” is The Lord’s Gift to Man
- What is charity?
- The Quality of Man’s Interior Determines
- The Word is a Medium
- The Angel of Jehovah
- How Angels Perceive the Word
- The Word in a Degree Above
- The Soul Survives Death
- The Capacity to be Conjoined with God
- Receiving Understanding of the Word
- Seeing Many Arcana in the Word
- A WORD at All Times
- Subsistence – A Perpetual Coming Forth
- Reciprocal Conjunction of the Lord and Man
- The Nature and Quality of Inward Joy
- How Good Works Are Done By Christians
- The Medium of Conjunction
- The Angelic Idea of the Universe Created by the Lord
- Two Worlds — Natural and Spiritual
- A Very General Outline of Creation and Its Progress
- Heaven — The Purpose of Providence
- Freedom of Choice in Spiritual Things
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Understanding the Lord’s Omnipresence Denuded of Time and Space
Selection from Apocalypse Explained ~ Emanuel Swedenborg • Spaces and times must be removed from the ideas, in order that the Lord’s Omnipresence with all men, collectively and severally, as well as his omniscience of things present and future may … Continue reading
Posted in Christian, Church, Emanuel Swedenborg, Spiritual Growth
Tagged omnipresence, omniscience, time and space
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The Substances or Forms are the Determining Subjects
Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg All things in the mind of man have been arranged into series, and as it were into bundles; and into series within series, or into bundles within bundles. That there is such an … Continue reading
Posted in Christian, Church, Emanuel Swedenborg, Spirituality
Tagged after death, forms, influx, substances
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‘Turning About’ Man’s Freedom, Man’s Good, Man’s Mind, Man’s Understanding and Will
Selection from Apocalypse Explained ~ Emanuel Swedenborg So far as man is removed from evils he is removed from hell – for evils and hell are one; so far as he is removed from these he enters into goods and … Continue reading
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Tagged freedom, mind, slavery
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See Truths in Appearances
Selection from Divine Providence ~ Emanuel Swedenborg • The Lord conjoins Himself with uses by means of correspondences, and thus by means of appearances in accordance with the confirmations of these by man. As this must needs seem obscure to those … Continue reading
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Tagged correspondences, uses
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Matters of Real Belief
Selection from The Doctrine of Faith ~ Emanuel Swedenborg The knowledges of truth and of good are not matters of real belief until the man is in charity but are the storehouse of material out of which the faith of … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, Faith
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Reception of God’s Love is in Accordance with the State of the Mind
Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg And He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in His doctrine, Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some … Continue reading
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Tagged memory, parable of sower, rational
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