ACV6S22 Insights from the Second Round

The doing of the Lord’s love radiates out of our heart and expresses itself in use
Divine love is enfolded within the Word and manifests as Divine Truth which is the Lord in His Divine Human
Self love is always present. The Lord’s gift to us is a sense of self and it can bring a sense of joy or a sense of wanting
The proprium pulls us into the business of the natural and the cares of the world with its distractions diverting our attention away from internal work
It can be painful to allow inner work and reflection to occur
Sometimes it can be hard to hear the Word speaking to us, we have to return to it many times to hear what it is saying to us
The literal sense, with all its names of people and places, pulls us away from hearing the Word’s internal message
The Word demonstrates our inner processes. It’s generally about spiritual principles but it can also be very specific to us individually
The hellish proprium needs to die in order for us to experience a new sense of self in which heaven is present
Each death of the hellish proprium is accompanied by the birth of the Word in us
We can experience the merit-guilt cycle when we examine our motivations with a view to trying to change our self from our self
When we just allow the Lord to work through us from the heart it seems so simple
It can be discouraging when we can’t hear the Lord speaking to us
Our affection or love is ignited when we feel or see a new truth from the Word
The Lord is constantly bringing about the conjunction of the internal and external through the good and truth within our own minds – this is the first conjugial that needs to occur within us – this is the Church within us
The internal sense is not a knowledge of correspondence but it is instead the life of the Word unfolding within our mind
Sometimes spiritual things are impossible to put into words
It is through hearing the experience of others in the group that makes the Lord in His Divine Human visible
We can’t change our motivations, we can only give attention to shunning the evils that we are given to see
What we feel as a desire for order can mask the proprium’s need to control others
When we focus on being an instrument of the Divine it can have the effect of reducing states of anxiety
Letting go of outcomes and leaving things to the Lord produces a positive sphere by bringing a sense of peace into our life
An affection for interior truth just doesn’t just happen, we have to engage with the Text if we are to find a place (Bethlehem) where the Lord can be born within
Evil arises when we attribute what is Divine to our self