From the work, Charity 11 11. It is clear then, from these considerations, that the first of charity is to shun evils as sins; which is done by repentance. Who does not see that an impenitent man is evil? And who does not see that an evil man has not charity? And who does not…
From the work, Heaven and Hell 532 532. Everyone may know that thoughts are led or tend in accord with the intentions, that is, in the directions that one intends; for thought is man’s internal sight, and resembles the external sight in this, that to whatever point it is directed or aimed, thither it turns…
From the work, Arcana Coelestia 5854.2 [2] The Lord could through angels lead man into good ends by omnipotent force; but this would be to take away the man’s life, for his life consists in entirely contrary loves. Therefore the Divine law is inviolable, that man shall be in freedom, and that good and truth,…
For the work, Arcana Coelestia 4677 And he made him a tunic* of various colors. That this signifies the appearances of truth thence, whereby the spiritual of the natural is known and distinguished, is evident from the signification of a “tunic,” as being the truth of the natural, of which hereafter; and from the signification…
From the Gospel of Matthew 13:23 23 “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” From the work, Arcana Coelestia 3310.2 That the “seed” is the Word of the Lord, thus truth,…
http://logopraxis.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ACV6S31R3-When-Our-Concept-of-the-Lord-Becomes-the-Lord-in-His-Divine-Human-For-Us.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:37 — 665.1KB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS From the work, Divine Providence 254.5 …there are many who worship idols and graven images, even in the Christian world. This is indeed idolatrous, and yet not with all; as there are some to whom graven images serve…
From the work, Arcana Coelestia 3701 …one cannot speak of a communication between, and the consequent joining together of the Lord’s Divine itself and His Divine Human unless at the same time one calls these attributes infinite and eternal, for in the Lord everything is infinite and eternal – infinite so far as Being (Esse)…
http://logopraxis.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ACV6S31R3-What-a-Gentile-State-In-Us-Might-Look-Like.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:36 — 1.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS From the work, Arcana Coelestia 932.2 Every good that stems from charity, even among gentiles, is seed obtained from the Lord. Although with gentiles it is not the good of faith as it may be inside the Church,…
From the work, Arcana Coelestia 5202.4 From his early infancy to the last of his life in the world and thereafter to eternity, the man who is in good is being born again every moment, not only as to interiors, but also as to exteriors, and this by amazing processes. It is these processes that…