From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity Man does not know that in respect to his mind he is in the midst of spirits, for the reason that the spirits with whom he is in company in the spiritual world, think and speak spiritually, while his own spirit thinks and speaks naturally so long as he …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity …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 called …
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity (Note: In the original Latin in which Swedenborg wrote, the word ‘homo’ in older English translations has been translated as ‘man’. In the more modern translations, this has been substituted with ‘human’ or ‘person’. For the purposes of inner spiritual application, the more accurate translation would be ‘human’, referring …
