Each of these 4 modules is centred around the contents of the 4-8 minute video and the accompanying passages from the doctrines for Spiritual Christianity. Each module offers 6-7 such passages. However, you may also wish to view them all in one document which you can do so here The (PDF). Likewise, throughout the modules links …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Every good and truth come down from the Lord and go up to Him, that is, He is the First and the Last. For the human being has been so created that Divine things that are the Lord’s may come down through him even to the lowest things of …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity He who does not know the nature of heaven and hell cannot at all know the nature of man’s mind. His mind is his spirit which lives after death. The reason of this is that the mind or spirit of man is in, every detail in the same form …
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 …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity For a person cannot help feeling that he loves and is wise of himself, that is, he wills good and understands truth of himself, when in fact it is not in the least from himself, but from God. It is only God who loves of Himself and is wise …
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, …
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These 4 modules explore how Divine influx shapes both the natural and spiritual worlds, how the human mind mirrors heaven or hell, and how regeneration unfolds through conscious alignment with heavenly principles. Each of these 4 modules is centred around the contents of the 4-8 minute video and the accompanying passages from the doctrines for …
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.
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 …
