From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Those who ascribe everything to nature can indeed observe such facts, but they think of them merely as facts and say that nature produces them. They say this because they have set their minds against thinking about the Divine; and those who do this, on seeing the wonders of nature, cannot …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity It is the Divine truth that goes forth from the Lord that has all power in the heavens, for the Lord in heaven is Divine truth united to Divine good. To the extent that angels are receptions of this truth they are powers. Moreover each one is his own truth and his …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Interiorly the human being is divided into separate degrees, and each degree has its own termination that serves to separate it from the degree beneath it. This is so with every degree from the inmost one to the outermost. The interior rational constitutes the first degree, the degree in …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity When the whole heaven is presented before the sight as one man, the inmost or third heaven answers to the head, the middle or second heaven to the body, and the lowest or first to the feet. The inmost or third heaven answers to the head because it is celestial, and …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The reason why the angels are not superior to men but are equal to them, and that therefore they are equally the Lord’s servants as men are, is because all the angels have been men born in the world, and none of them directly created, as can be established …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Because the peace of heaven is the Divine inmostly affecting with blessedness the veriest good in angels, it can be clearly perceived by them only in the delight of their hearts when they are in the good of their life, in the pleasure with which they hear truth that …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Everyone in the heavens knows, believes and even perceives that he wills and does nothing good from himself; and that he thinks and believes nothing of truth from himself; but from the Divine, thus from the Lord, and that the good and truth which are from himself are not …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity I have talked much with angels about innocence, and have been told that innocence is the being (esse) of all good, and that good is therefore good to the extent that it has innocence in it, consequently that wisdom is wisdom to the extent that it partakes of innocence. …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity By changes of state of the angels are meant their changes as to love and faith, and wisdom and intelligence therefrom, thus their changes as to states of life. States are predicated of life and of the things that are of life; and as angelic life is a life of love and faith, and of …
