On the surface this is a story of the young boy Jesus astonishing the teachers in the temple courts with his understanding of the Text. But when examined from a spiritual perspective it offers us a story about how truth first enters the holy space within us, and teaches and astonishes. This article also introduces the reader to the concepts of the Logopraxis approach, both individually and within group life.
In a continuation on from Part 1, we look at how this story offers an image of how truth works when we seek to apply it to life of our mind, and of how this then informs us of how we might then be in spiritual community with others, and in particular of how it might unfold in a Life Group Meeting.
What is it that prevents us from seeing into deeper things? The Word is designed to challenge our natural patterns of thought and behaviour and the teaching of the doctrines of Spiritual Christianity gives us what we need to be prepared for this.
As with all spiritual material, the work Heaven and Hell deals with mental structures and processes that we experience as states of mind i.e., states of thinking and feeling. In recounting the “things heard and seen” Swedenborg offers us a psycho-spiritual map that can guide us on our own inner journey. Using the Logopraxis approach we can come to appreciate the Heaven and Hell text in a way that opens up profound insights into the evolution of human consciousness and the laws that govern its organisation and development.
This video offers a window into how to meet as a Logopraxis Life Group. Through use of a recording of an actual online meeting the viewer is offered insights into the structures and principles that underpin the Logopraxis Life Group experience.
Real Appearances as the Correspondence of Consciousness
An Image of God-Man, the Divine Human
The Divinity of the Text
The Text Is the Field In Which We Might First Practise Reading Correspondences
The Word Can Open the Spiritual Mind and Invert Our Thinking
