From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity All constituents of the three kingdoms exist [in the spiritual world as in the natural] and in the midst of them stands the angel. He sees these things about him, and also knows that they are representations of him. Indeed, when the inmost plane of his intellect is opened, …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Although there is a succession and a progression of all things in heaven, as in the world, yet angels have no notion or idea of time and space; and this so completely that they do not even know at all what time and space are. (Heaven and Hell 162) …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Angels do not know what time is, although with them there is a successive progression of all things, as there is in the world, and this so completely that there is no difference whatever and the reason is that in heaven instead of years and days there are changes …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The Divine omnipresence may be illustrated by the wonderful way in which angels and spirits become present to each other in the spiritual world. Because there is no space in that world, but only an appearance of space, an angel or spirit may instantly become present with another whenever …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity The spaces and distances, and thence the progressions in the natural world, are, in their origin and first cause, changes of the state of the interiors, and with angels and spirits appear according to these changes; and that thus they can by these changes be apparently transferred from one …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity God, since the world was created, is in space apart from space, and in time apart from time. That God, and the Divine which proceeds immediately from Him, is not in space, although He is omnipresent, and with every man in the world, with every angel in heaven, and with every spirit under heaven, cannot …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity By changes of state of angels their changes in respect to love and faith, and wisdom and intelligence therefrom, are meant, thus their changes in respect to states of life. (Heaven and Hell 154) This can be very clearly seen from the representatives in the other life. Representatives are …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity There are two things which while man lives in the world appear to be essential, because they are proper to nature, namely, space and time. Hence to live in space and time is to live in the world or in nature. But in the other life these two things are of no consequence. In the world …
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From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity If the minds of men did not form the idea that God is prime substance and form, and that His form is the very form of man, they would easily fall into fantastic, ghost-like, ideas about God Himself, the origin of man and the creation of the world. They …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Sensory impressions are said to be cast aside when the things that are first and foremost in explanations place no reliance on them; for they are indeed sensory impressions, and impressions received by the mind directly through the senses are illusions. The senses are the source of all the …
