From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The following experience alone enables one to infer how difficult it is for a natural man to apprehend spiritual things, consequently things that belong to heaven. Can anyone like him see that space and time do not exist in heaven, but states instead? Or to be more precise, that …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Heaven with all people in general and with each person in particular consists in the reception of influx from the Divine. (Arcana Coelestia 8899) Heaven is conjunction with the Lord. Heaven is not heaven owing to the angels, but owing to the Lord, for the love and wisdom which angels possess …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity There are two things proper to the natural order which have no existence in heaven, and even less in the Divine, namely space and time. For their non-existence in heaven and the existence of states instead – states of being instead of ‘space’, and states of coming-into-being or manifestation …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity It should be recognised that heaven does not exist in some fixed and exact location; that is, it is not up on high, as it is commonly thought to be. Rather heaven exists wherever the Divine is present. This being so, it exists with and within everyone possessing charity …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity This One God is Substance itself and Form itself and angels and men are substances and forms from Him, and so far as they are in Him and He in them are images and likenesses of Him. As God is Esse He is also Substance; for unless Esse is …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity There is only one substance which really is substance. Everything else is a formation from it, and that one and only substance reigns not solely as the form but as that too which is not the form (lit non form), for instance, as that which gave rise to them. …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The reason why the infinity of God predicated of space is called immensity, is that the term ‘immense’ is used of what is great and large, and also what is extensive and in this respect spacious. But the reason why the infinity of God predicated of time is called …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity People inevitably confuse Divine Infinity with infinity of space. And because they do not conceive of infinity of space as anything other than nothingness, as indeed it is, neither do they believe in Divine Infinity. The same applies to Eternity. They cannot conceive of it except as an eternity …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Nature has two properties, space and time. A person in the natural world forms his mental concepts and thus his understanding in accordance with them. If he remains immersed in these concepts and does not raise his mind above them, he is incapable of ever perceiving anything spiritual or …
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