3. The Flow Of Divine Life As It Reaches Us

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 …

1. Our Outer World Is A Product Of Divine Life Terminating In The Sentient

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, …

Change Is Always Possible

What we experience as our sense of self isn’t fixed but instead is something brought into being moment to moment. We’ll explore two key concepts integral to this concept: Proprium (the feeling that ‘I am me’), and Influx (all life flows in). Also, what implications this has for the self that we think is being saved versus the self that we are saved from. And finally, the concept of an ‘as of self’, the process in which this comes about and our role in giving form to our soul for reception of this.