From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity In the spiritual world there appear all the things which are seen in the natural world. There appear houses and palaces; paradises and gardens, and in them all kinds of trees; fields and fallow lands, also plains and shrubberies, and likewise herds and flocks: all exactly resembling those which …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity In the truth of faith there are theoretical matters and practical ones; and he who regards the theoretical for the sake of the practical, and who sees the former in the latter, and who thus from both conjoined regards the good use of life, and is affected by both for the …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The changes of state of the affections appear to the life in the face of angels. When they are in their own society they are in their own face, but when they come into another society their faces are changed according to the affections of good and truth of …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity That times and spaces in the spiritual world are states of life, and that the all of life is from the Lord, may be seen from the following experience. Every spirit and angel sees the good at the right, and the evil at the left, and this to whatever …
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Is the world around you really what it seems? This series delves into the concept of Correspondence from teachings for Spiritual Christianity, revealing how the natural world acts as a mirror to our inner spiritual state. We’ll explore: Each of these 5 modules is centred around the contents of the 4-8 minute video and the …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The reason a” quaking” or “motion” denotes a change of state, is that it takes place in space and in time and in the other life there is no idea of space and of time but in their stead there is state. It is indeed true that in the …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity For in general, whatever appears in heaven has precisely the same appearance as the things which exist in our material world in its three kingdoms; and such things appear before the eyes of the angels in just the same way as the things of the three kingdoms appear before …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity All things that really appear in the spiritual world are correspondences, for they correspond to the interiors of angels, which are the things of their minds, that is, of their affection and of their thought therefrom, and therefore such things are signified by them. For the spiritual, which is …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity All changes of place in the spiritual world are effected by changes of state of the interiors, which means that change of place is nothing else than change of state. In this way I have been taken by the Lord into the heavens and also to the earths in …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity All things in heaven come forth from the Lord in correspondence with the interiors of the angels. For angels have both interiors and exteriors. All things in their interiors have relation to love and faith, thus to the will and understanding, since the will and understanding are their receptacles; …
