From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The three newcomers, seeing so many books, were astounded and exclaimed: “Books, too, in this world! Whence have you parchment and paper? And pen and ink?” To this the elders replied, “We perceive that in the former world you believed that this world, being spiritual, is empty. You believed …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity In the spiritual world there appear all the things which are seen in the natural world. There appear houses and palaces; paradises and gardens, and in them all kinds of trees; fields and fallow lands, also plains and shrubberies, and likewise herds and flocks: all exactly resembling those which …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity In the truth of faith there are theoretical matters and practical ones; and he who regards the theoretical for the sake of the practical, and who sees the former in the latter, and who thus from both conjoined regards the good use of life, and is affected by both for the …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The changes of state of the affections appear to the life in the face of angels. When they are in their own society they are in their own face, but when they come into another society their faces are changed according to the affections of good and truth of …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity That times and spaces in the spiritual world are states of life, and that the all of life is from the Lord, may be seen from the following experience. Every spirit and angel sees the good at the right, and the evil at the left, and this to whatever …
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