HHS11 258-275

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Michael Lock
Michael Lock
September 26, 2022 6:54 am

LOGOPRAXIS 10: HH 258-275 CHOSEN EXTRACT HH 268 ‘… the very nature of heavenly love is to want what is one’s own to belong to another; so no one in heaven regards his or her good as authentically good unless it is someone else’s as well. This is also the basis of heaven’s happiness …’ [George F Dole translation] HH 268 ‘… heavenly love is such that it wills what is its own to be another’s. Consequently, no one in heaven perceives his own good in himself to be good unless it is also in another; and this is the source… Read more »

Michael Lock
Michael Lock
September 26, 2022 6:56 am
Reply to  Michael Lock

Sorry, that should say Logopraxis 11!!

I’m not sure how to edit once a comment has been posted.

Michael Lock
Michael Lock
October 3, 2022 8:03 pm
Reply to  Michael Lock

HH 11 259-275 – REVIEW OF TASK What this exercise has done is to show me the fallibility of my obsessive-compulsive ways.  The perfectionist inside me, that has organised this particular task in the way that I have defined above has, under pressure, tried to create too much structure.  This is where I typically go when the chips are down: I get more organised!  In fact, this is my derailer – it is what becomes far ‘too much of a good thing’ for me, for I try to use something that has historically served the proprium well, so I use it in… Read more »

Ian Keal
September 22, 2022 3:06 am

HH 268:  In the heavens there is a communication of all things; intelligence and wisdom are communicated from one to another, and heaven is a communion of all goods; and this for the reason that heavenly love is such that it wishes what is its own to be another’s; consequently no one in heaven perceives his own good in himself to be good unless it is also in another; and this is the source of the happiness of heaven. This the angels derive from the Lord, for such is His Divine love. 269:  The interior angels are able to perceive… Read more »

Ian Keal
October 6, 2022 11:41 am
Reply to  Ian Keal

The two things that I heard while mulling over the numbers that jumped out in this session were “Heaven is a communion” and “the way of hearing is the way of wisdom” I think that there is a vast difference between listening, and Hearing. I am listening to all kinds of sounds all day long. But what am I Hearing? And where am I hearing? In my head, or in my heart? I had an experience where I had an opportunity (for want of a better word) to allow my proprium to take control of a conversation by ranting and… Read more »