ACV6S21 The Third Round: Heavenly Light is Possible when we Remove Ideas of Space and Time from Our Thought when Reading the Word

Divine Providence 306

306. From the idea of heaven and hell just presented, the nature of the human mind can be seen, for as we said, a person’s mind or spirit is in miniature form either a heaven or a hell. One can see namely that a person’s interior constituents are simply affections and the accompanying thoughts, differentiated into classes and types as though into larger and smaller associations and so conjoined as to act in concert. Moreover, one can see that the Lord governs those affections and thoughts in the same way that He governs heaven or hell.
(The fact that a person is in miniature form either a heaven or a hell may be seen in the book Heaven and Hell, published in 1758 in London, nos. 51-102.)

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Margit Irwin
Margit Irwin
5 years ago

I am having trouble seeing how in heaven person does not exist. It that case where does love of the neighbor go when performing uses there?

Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
Reply to  Margit Irwin
5 years ago

Hi Margit. I’ve thought about this too. The Lord gives us a heavenly proprium and a sense of self so that we are able to enjoy spiritual delights and the delights of being in use. I imagine in heaven that most of the states we move through are specific to use. When we are actively engaged in use and in the joy of it – we lose our sense of self, time falls away and we don’t notice the space we are in- we are just in the Lord’s delight of that use – of the conjunction of that good… Read more »