From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity That natural things represent spiritual things, and that they correspond, may also be known from the fact that what is natural cannot possibly come forth except from a cause prior to itself. Its cause is from what is spiritual; and there is nothing natural which does not thence derive …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity First, it will be stated what correspondence is.The whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world, and not merely the natural world in general, but also every particular of it; and as a consequence everything in the natural world that springs from the spiritual world is called a correspondent. …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity For 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 …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Everyone can see that a man’s knowledge of God is his mirror of God, and that those who know nothing about God do not see God in a mirror with its face toward them, but in a mirror with its back toward them; and as this is covered with …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The Word, which is an essentially Divine Work designed for the salvation of the human race, as to its lowest or natural sense, called the sense of the Letter, is the basis, the containant and the support of the two interior senses (the celestial and spiritual). (Doctrine of Sacred …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity All the representatives in the other life are outward things shaped according to the states of the interior ones; for in this way the spiritual world presents itself to view there. (Arcana Coelestia 10194) Together with the state of the angels’ interiors which pertain to their love and wisdom, the states …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Heaven is not a place but a state of life. Those who come from the world all bring with them the belief that heaven is on high, thus in a place. For this reason they say they want to be raised into heaven. But they do not know that heaven is not a place, but …
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 …
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