HH363 (portion): After death, our ruling affection or love awaits each one of us. This is never rooted out to eternity because our spirit is exactly like our love; and the body of every spirit and angel is an outward form of her or his love that is completely responsive to the inner form that is the character and mind of that spirit or angel. Principle: My ruling love will endure forever, through all changes of mental state, because my love is the expression of my deepest truth. Task: To observe the workings of my deepest truth as it shows… Read more »
Michael Lock
February 13, 2023 12:40 am
LP 17: HH357-365 CHOSEN PASSAGE 358: ‘… we may note that it is all right to acquire wealth and accumulate any amount of assets if it is not done by fraud or evil devices. It is all right to eat and drink with elegance if we do not invest our lives in such things. It is all right to be housed as graciously as befits one’s station, to chat with others like ourselves, to go to games, to consult about worldly affairs. There is no need to walk around looking pious with a sad, tearful face and a bowed head.… Read more »
AC 6290 For it was an error for him to account truth as being in the first place and good in the second
HH 360(3) For to the extent that a man loves self and the world and looks to self and the world in everything, he alienates himself from the Divine and separates himself from heaven.
Task: Good must be placed first before truth. When this is done then truth flows forth from this. To use this principle as a reminder when I am in states of uncertainty.
To do the will of the Word. The celestial heart knows , the spiritual heart questions it and the natural heart just plain old fights it. But it’s the innermost heart in which peace resides in. And real freedom. Wisdom once reminded itself to me that we do the work that the Word asks of us and then accepts what unfolds from that. That’s love in motion. I think this add on is more of a R3 offering …but it came to me this morning. What makes something true is the source of its good. If it’s good is of… Read more »
HH 358, .. For a man is such as his affection and thought are, or such as his love and faith are, and from these all his outward acts derive their life; since acting is willing, and speaking is thinking, acting being from the will, and speaking from the thought. So where it is said in the Word that man will be judged according to his deeds, and will be rewarded according to his works, it is meant that he will be judged and rewarded in accordance with his thought and affection, which are the source of his deeds, or… Read more »
HH363 (portion): After death, our ruling affection or love awaits each one of us. This is never rooted out to eternity because our spirit is exactly like our love; and the body of every spirit and angel is an outward form of her or his love that is completely responsive to the inner form that is the character and mind of that spirit or angel. Principle: My ruling love will endure forever, through all changes of mental state, because my love is the expression of my deepest truth. Task: To observe the workings of my deepest truth as it shows… Read more »
LP 17: HH357-365 CHOSEN PASSAGE 358: ‘… we may note that it is all right to acquire wealth and accumulate any amount of assets if it is not done by fraud or evil devices. It is all right to eat and drink with elegance if we do not invest our lives in such things. It is all right to be housed as graciously as befits one’s station, to chat with others like ourselves, to go to games, to consult about worldly affairs. There is no need to walk around looking pious with a sad, tearful face and a bowed head.… Read more »
AC 6290 For it was an error for him to account truth as being in the first place and good in the second
HH 360(3) For to the extent that a man loves self and the world and looks to self and the world in everything, he alienates himself from the Divine and separates himself from heaven.
Task: Good must be placed first before truth. When this is done then truth flows forth from this. To use this principle as a reminder when I am in states of uncertainty.
To do the will of the Word. The celestial heart knows , the spiritual heart questions it and the natural heart just plain old fights it. But it’s the innermost heart in which peace resides in. And real freedom. Wisdom once reminded itself to me that we do the work that the Word asks of us and then accepts what unfolds from that. That’s love in motion. I think this add on is more of a R3 offering …but it came to me this morning. What makes something true is the source of its good. If it’s good is of… Read more »
HH 358, .. For a man is such as his affection and thought are, or such as his love and faith are, and from these all his outward acts derive their life; since acting is willing, and speaking is thinking, acting being from the will, and speaking from the thought. So where it is said in the Word that man will be judged according to his deeds, and will be rewarded according to his works, it is meant that he will be judged and rewarded in accordance with his thought and affection, which are the source of his deeds, or… Read more »