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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
Tag Archives: doctrine
The Power of Natural Truth from Spiritual
Selection from Apocalypse Explained ~ Emanuel Swedenborg And He shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father. (Revelation 2:27) Who is … Continue reading
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Tagged airs, atmospheres, auras, Divine truth, doctrine, ethers, heat, influx, light, Lord, rod of iron, spiritual, ultimates
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An ONLY Substance
Selection from Divine Providence ~ Emanuel Swedenborg The Divine love and the Divine wisdom, which are a one in the Lord and go forth from Him as a one, are in every created thing in a certain image. The Divine … Continue reading
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Tagged bride, bridegroom, church, Creator, Divine, doctrine, eternity, heaven, husband, marriage, substance, sun of the spiritual world, wife
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Seriatim Remarks on the Doctrine of Charity and Faith (Pt. 36)
Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg — Doctrinal Things of Charity — That which makes heaven with man also makes the Church, for the Church is the Lord’s heaven on earth. Consequently from what has been previously said about … Continue reading
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Seriatim Remarks on the Doctrine of Charity (Pt. 4)
Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg — Doctrinal Things of Charity — It is a common saying that everyone is neighbor to himself, that is, that one should take care of himself first of all. The doctrine of charity … Continue reading
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Concerning The Word (series) Pt. 21
Selection from Apocalypse Explained ~ Emanuel Swedenborg It is an invariable truth that no one can understand the Word without doctrine; for he may be led away into any errors to which he may be inclined from some love, or … Continue reading
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‘Seeing’ the Well of Water
Selections from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water . . . (Genesis 21:19) That this signifies the Lord’s Word from which are truths, is evident from the signification of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abimelech, Abraham, church, doctrine, fountain, Isaac, Moses, Philistines, pit, Samaria, spiritual, well of water
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