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)
Val Rogers AC4760 (4) ” It is as is well known a common thing for the learned to have less belief in a life after death than the simple, and in general to see Divine truths less clearly than the simple. The reason of this is that they consult memory-knowledges (of which they possess a greater abundance than others) from a negative standpoint, and thereby destroy in themselves insight from what is higher or interiior; and when this is destroyed, they no longer see anything from the light of heaven, but only from the light of the world, and if… Read more »
Gray Glenn
4 years ago
This helps me tie down something in #4766.2 “Let anyone ask himself, when he says that he acknowledges and believes in one God, whether or not he has thoughts of three.” Taking the 3 essentials stated in DP 259, I can see how separately I see each, and how that allows me to dwell in my sense of self as the source of something.
Val Rogers AC4760 (4) ” It is as is well known a common thing for the learned to have less belief in a life after death than the simple, and in general to see Divine truths less clearly than the simple. The reason of this is that they consult memory-knowledges (of which they possess a greater abundance than others) from a negative standpoint, and thereby destroy in themselves insight from what is higher or interiior; and when this is destroyed, they no longer see anything from the light of heaven, but only from the light of the world, and if… Read more »
This helps me tie down something in #4766.2 “Let anyone ask himself, when he says that he acknowledges and believes in one God, whether or not he has thoughts of three.” Taking the 3 essentials stated in DP 259, I can see how separately I see each, and how that allows me to dwell in my sense of self as the source of something.