Logopraxis Talking Points: Ballarat LP Workshop

The following list of points formed the basis for a discussion in the latter part of a one-day exploration of Logopraxis ideas and experience in Ballarat Victoria on the 3rd of June 2017. Click on “Read More” to access related doctrinal references under each point.

1. There is a Divine Being whose very essence is Divine Love and Wisdom

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2. That being has manifested itself in its fullness in the form of a Divine Human, this being Jesus Christ

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3. Jesus Christ or the Lord is the Word and as the Word the Divine is fully present, this presence being with us in all its fullness as the Sacred Scripture

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4. The sacred Scripture is the Lord in his Divine Human. This has an external and an internal. The external is the letter or literal meaning, while its internal is the spiritual meaning, the literal meaning serves as a body that contains the spirit and thereby serves as a gateway to the interior things of the human spirit or mind

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5. The spiritual sense of the Word relates to the states of life belonging to the mind while the literal sense of the Word relates to natural things in the world

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6. The mind or spirit of a person is in the spiritual world, in fact on a personal level the spiritual world is the mind and this becomes clearly evident upon the death of the natural body, or through undertaking a spiritual practice

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7. Human beings as to their spirit are created to live forever

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8. The conditions or quality of eternal life are a direct reflection of the state of our love. Where the natural self is loved above all else a state of life/mind called hell is induced, but where the natural self is made subordinate to the spiritual self and is loved for the sake of what benefits it can convey to others a state of life/mind called heaven is induced

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9. All are born into a natural self, which has as its base the hereditary and environmental component-the sense of self/identity acquired from this base gives rise to the illusion that the feeling of life we possess originates within us

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10. Life becomes an effort to constantly affirm this illusion or fallacy so as to convince ourselves that we are an independent and autonomous being or self. This delusion is the source of every evil that plagues humanity

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11. The sense of an autonomous and independent self-sense is an appearance of the senses, and as such has no reality to it from a spiritual perspective

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12. This natural sense of self or person is the product of being identified with the flow of mental life or thoughts and affections that we experience as or self or self-consciousness

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13. To identify oneself with the influx of mental life leads to attributing what is good and what is evil to oneself, thus we take what is of the Lord and what is of hell to ourselves. This reinforces the illusion that we are independent beings separate, or separated from, the Divine Love.

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14. The Lord came into the world to remedy this delusion through presenting the truth of the situation, that God is not far off, but is in fact in our very midst in what is truly human, that He is our very life, and there is nothing that can separate us from that love-but our own wish to remain in the delusion

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15. The Gospels constantly present the theme that if we are to become whole spiritually the quality of our faith is paramount

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16. Faith is our understanding of reality and the underlying beliefs as to how it all works

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17. That understanding is grounded in our experience and is very much reliant on the framework that interprets that experience and because all we have access to, to frame our experience is our senses our faith or understanding will be littered with many fallacies, this forms our natural sense of self as opposed to a spiritual sense of self

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18. The Word and Heavenly Doctrine provides of view of reality that runs counter to what our natural self is in and therefore serves as the basis for developing a new understanding or faith as to the nature of reality that can form the basis for a new sense of self

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19. It teaches that the self we believe ourselves to be, has no reality in itself, that we must give this up if we are to be given a real, or spiritual self

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20. A new framework of interpretation must be acquired from which we can test how what is taught is true in our own experience, this then can form the basis for a new faith

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21. Logopraxis provides a framework by which we can actually do that

 

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