CHOSEN EXTRACT HH 385 EXTRACT: He wanted to quibble about whether this was true or not; but he was told that there is no quibbling about the truth. Quibbling favours whatever pleases us, and therefore supports what is evil and false. He should first think about what he had been told, because it was true. Or again, he could start from the principle widely acknowledged in the world that we should not do anything to others that we do not want them to do to us. PRINCIPLES EMBEDDED IN THE CHOSEN EXTRACT Reasoning can ignore truth and will defend love of… Read more »
Jenn Beiswenger
March 1, 2023 3:42 pm
HH371 (portion): “From Divine love Divine good goes forth, and Divine good is received by angels and men in Divine truths. As truth is the sole receptacle of good nothing can be received from the Lord and from heaven by any one who is not in truths.” In the NCE translation: “Divine good is accepted by angels and by us in divine truths, truth being the only vessel for the good.” Principle: The Lord’s love appears in His truths, which are the only way our minds can perceive them. Task: To meditate on this principle in order to gain a… Read more »
6325. It is an eternal truth that the Lord rules heaven and earth, and also that no one besides the Lord lives of himself, consequently that everything of life flows in-the good of life from the Lord, and the evil of life from hell. This is the faith of the heavens. When a man is in this faith (and he can be in it when he is in good), then evil cannot be fastened and appropriated to him, because he knows that it is not from himself, but from hell. When a man is in this state, he can then… Read more »
Submission: There is no need for marriage in heaven – in the innermost heaven – because there the two are just joined- each the perfect spouse and complement for the other. They are appropriated to each other by the Lord, as if their own, but this own is completely different to the own we are first built-up in. This own is in the peaceful flow of use and hence is also full of varying states of delight. There is even a delight of being in the knowledge that despite how difficult the states are that present to it, the Lord is… Read more »
HH 383: I have also been permitted to see how marriages are contracted in the heavens. As everywhere in heaven those who are alike are united and those who are unlike are separated, so every society in heaven consists of those who are alike. Like are brought to like not by themselves but by the Lord (see above, n. 41, 43, 44, seq.); and equally consort to consort whose minds can be joined into one are drawn together; and consequently at first sight they inmostly love each other, and see themselves to be consorts, and enter into marriage. For this… Read more »
Submission: So, every day during this cycle I got up and read through the selected numbers. What emerged from that was a progression of uncomfortable memories where I had not, over the last 46 years, been kind, thoughtful, tolerant, loving, .. name it, .. I WASN’T that! So I started writing down all the good qualities that are my wife, which, of course, opened up all the accusations from the hells reminding me that I don’t even come close to any of those attributes. And what usually happens is an admission that Yes, I have profaned and broken every single… Read more »
CHOSEN EXTRACT HH 385 EXTRACT: He wanted to quibble about whether this was true or not; but he was told that there is no quibbling about the truth. Quibbling favours whatever pleases us, and therefore supports what is evil and false. He should first think about what he had been told, because it was true. Or again, he could start from the principle widely acknowledged in the world that we should not do anything to others that we do not want them to do to us. PRINCIPLES EMBEDDED IN THE CHOSEN EXTRACT Reasoning can ignore truth and will defend love of… Read more »
HH371 (portion): “From Divine love Divine good goes forth, and Divine good is received by angels and men in Divine truths. As truth is the sole receptacle of good nothing can be received from the Lord and from heaven by any one who is not in truths.” In the NCE translation: “Divine good is accepted by angels and by us in divine truths, truth being the only vessel for the good.” Principle: The Lord’s love appears in His truths, which are the only way our minds can perceive them. Task: To meditate on this principle in order to gain a… Read more »
6325. It is an eternal truth that the Lord rules heaven and earth, and also that no one besides the Lord lives of himself, consequently that everything of life flows in-the good of life from the Lord, and the evil of life from hell. This is the faith of the heavens. When a man is in this faith (and he can be in it when he is in good), then evil cannot be fastened and appropriated to him, because he knows that it is not from himself, but from hell. When a man is in this state, he can then… Read more »
Submission: There is no need for marriage in heaven – in the innermost heaven – because there the two are just joined- each the perfect spouse and complement for the other. They are appropriated to each other by the Lord, as if their own, but this own is completely different to the own we are first built-up in. This own is in the peaceful flow of use and hence is also full of varying states of delight. There is even a delight of being in the knowledge that despite how difficult the states are that present to it, the Lord is… Read more »
HH 383: I have also been permitted to see how marriages are contracted in the heavens. As everywhere in heaven those who are alike are united and those who are unlike are separated, so every society in heaven consists of those who are alike. Like are brought to like not by themselves but by the Lord (see above, n. 41, 43, 44, seq.); and equally consort to consort whose minds can be joined into one are drawn together; and consequently at first sight they inmostly love each other, and see themselves to be consorts, and enter into marriage. For this… Read more »
Submission: So, every day during this cycle I got up and read through the selected numbers. What emerged from that was a progression of uncomfortable memories where I had not, over the last 46 years, been kind, thoughtful, tolerant, loving, .. name it, .. I WASN’T that! So I started writing down all the good qualities that are my wife, which, of course, opened up all the accusations from the hells reminding me that I don’t even come close to any of those attributes. And what usually happens is an admission that Yes, I have profaned and broken every single… Read more »