Seeking to make the Lord God Jesus Christ visible in our midst… "Where two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 18:20)
This idea of the proprium being “dressed up” as something spiritual, also connects for me with the false heavens that were/are present when a last judgement or the “close of the age” of the church occurs – as in the end of the Jewish Church and Christian Church and the last judgement of a church in us. Re AC 4535. And we only see that is has been “dressed up” once we allow the angels to look at it.
Janna King
5 years ago
Your phrase ‘proprial investment in spiritual things’ is terrific. That’s a good definition of historical faith at its worst– when it stubbornly refuses to be softened and re-made (I guess replaced is a better term than re-made) by the genuine religion that the Lord wants to give us.
It is noteworthy that when Dinah ventured into the land before the rape, she represented an affection for truth that may have existed in the Ancient Church (prior states of trust in the Lord). I wonder what occurs in us that causes this transition her now representing affection for evil and falsity.
This is another case in point for the removal of person when working with the text. While in the letter its the same person on a more internal level it is two different/ completely separate representations – in this sense the Dinah in the first instance isn’t the same Dinah in the second instance – the affection for truth doesn’t become an affection for evil and falsity – but a person in the Word can represent either depending on the context.
This is also a good example of considering from what position we are trying to view things. Are we looking at the affection for the truth of the church from our hellish proprium, from what is lower with our natural eyes, in the light of the world? Of course then affection for truths will look like evils and falsities like they did for Simeon(falsity) and Levi(evil) and they will cry in outrage and insist on their removal and destruction. But just as evil recognises itself in others, like the evil spirits and genii appearing to each other in normal human… Read more »
This idea of the proprium being “dressed up” as something spiritual, also connects for me with the false heavens that were/are present when a last judgement or the “close of the age” of the church occurs – as in the end of the Jewish Church and Christian Church and the last judgement of a church in us. Re AC 4535. And we only see that is has been “dressed up” once we allow the angels to look at it.
Your phrase ‘proprial investment in spiritual things’ is terrific. That’s a good definition of historical faith at its worst– when it stubbornly refuses to be softened and re-made (I guess replaced is a better term than re-made) by the genuine religion that the Lord wants to give us.
It is noteworthy that when Dinah ventured into the land before the rape, she represented an affection for truth that may have existed in the Ancient Church (prior states of trust in the Lord). I wonder what occurs in us that causes this transition her now representing affection for evil and falsity.
This is another case in point for the removal of person when working with the text. While in the letter its the same person on a more internal level it is two different/ completely separate representations – in this sense the Dinah in the first instance isn’t the same Dinah in the second instance – the affection for truth doesn’t become an affection for evil and falsity – but a person in the Word can represent either depending on the context.
This is also a good example of considering from what position we are trying to view things. Are we looking at the affection for the truth of the church from our hellish proprium, from what is lower with our natural eyes, in the light of the world? Of course then affection for truths will look like evils and falsities like they did for Simeon(falsity) and Levi(evil) and they will cry in outrage and insist on their removal and destruction. But just as evil recognises itself in others, like the evil spirits and genii appearing to each other in normal human… Read more »