With music Without music Let’s start by taking a few deep breaths and then slowly releasing them Now let your mind focus on the image of a rope. This rope is on the ground before you arranged as a large circle. And you are standing on the outside of this rope. Here on the outside …
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As If Of Self Arcana Coelestia 8497… goodness and truth which flow in from the Lord are joined together and so to speak made the person’s own. This is what the joining of heaven, that is, of those in heaven, to the Lord is like. The words ‘as if from what was their own’ are used …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Man does not know that in respect to his mind he is in the midst of spirits, for the reason that the spirits with whom he is in company in the spiritual world, think and speak spiritually, while his own spirit thinks and speaks naturally so long as he …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity …every man has a lower or exterior mind, and a higher or interior mind; the lower or exterior mind is the natural mind, which is called the natural man, while the higher or interior mind is the spiritual mind, and is called the spiritual man. The mind is called …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity (Note: In the original Latin in which Swedenborg wrote, the word ‘homo’ in older English translations has been translated as ‘man’. In the more modern translations, this has been substituted with ‘human’ or ‘person’. For the purposes of inner spiritual application, the more accurate translation would be ‘human’, referring …
In this series we explore the profound connection between the mind and body, the duality of the spiritual and natural minds and uncover how these distinct modes of thinking influence our perceptions and interactions with both the physical and spiritual realms. Discover the limitations of language in expressing spiritual truths and learn how aligning our …
Click here for the community discussion related to this material In the Gospel of Mark, in the fifth chapter we have the story of the healing of a man possessed by many demons. Taken as an event in time it’s a narrative filled with powerful emotions and graphic imagery. But, as we shall see, for …
The Gospel of Mark begins with the Lord as an adult and goes straight into His ministry. It is very much a doing Gospel and in the Greek it moves very quickly. As the Text that follows on from Matthew, its stories depict the putting into practise the truths of the Word that Matthew has …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity People know, indeed, that everything in the universe has some relation to goodness and truth, because by goodness is meant something that universally embraces and includes all aspects of love, and by truth is meant something that universally embraces and includes all aspects of wisdom. But people do not …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The representations that come forth in the other life are appearances, but living ones, because they are from the light of life. The light of life is the Divine Wisdom, which is from the Lord alone. Hence all things that come forth from this light are real; and are not …
