A stand-alone module on the Word and the nature of Divine revelation. Far too often, we approach these ancient texts with a literal mindset, inadvertently obscuring the vast spiritual treasures they hold. Sacred writings, particularly the Bible, are multi-layered tapestries of Divine revelation, designed not merely as historical records, but as profound guides for our …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Divine Truth emanating from the Lord flows into every person by way of his interiors into his exteriors, right down into the external sensory and the bodily levels, and everywhere it flows it stirs to life things attuned to it in their proper order – on the sensory level …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity ‘Its walls’ means inner levels. This is clear from the meaning of ‘the walls’ or the sides as inner levels; for when ‘the roof’ means that which is inmost, ‘the walls’, which are below it, mean the inner levels. By inner levels those which are below the inmost ones …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity I was conveyed by the Lord by means of angels to some planet in the universe, where I was allowed to see into the actual planet. (Arcana Coelestia 9578) Being conveyed to planets in the universe does not mean being conveyed and brought to them as to the body …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Every good and truth come down from the Lord and go up to Him, that is, He is the First and the Last. For the human being has been so created that Divine things that are the Lord’s may come down through him even to the lowest things of …
In these 4 modules you’ll be invited to reverse ordinary thought, revealing that the external world that you perceive is not an independent entity, but a continuous manifestation of Divine Influx flowing from your inner spiritual states. You’ll discover how space and time are fluid products of your thoughts and affections, learn to apply the …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity He who does not know the nature of heaven and hell cannot at all know the nature of man’s mind. His mind is his spirit which lives after death. The reason of this is that the mind or spirit of man is in, every detail in the same form …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Yet although the heavens are so distinct that the angels of one heaven cannot have association in their affairs with the angels of another, still the Lord conjoins all the heavens by immediate and mediate influx-by immediate influx from Himself into all the heavens, and by mediate influx from one heaven into another. He thus …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity For a person cannot help feeling that he loves and is wise of himself, that is, he wills good and understands truth of himself, when in fact it is not in the least from himself, but from God. It is only God who loves of Himself and is wise …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Since a person has in him three degrees of love and wisdom and consequent useful endeavor, it follows that he has in him three degrees of will and intellect and consequent resolve, and thus of a determination to a useful end. For the will is the receptacle of love, …
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