HH 389 No angel however arrogates the dignity to himself but ascribes all to the use; since the use is the good he performs and every good is from the Lord. Therefore, he ascribes all to the Lord. HH 399 How great the delight of heaven is, may appear from this circumstance alone, that it is delightful to all in heaven to communicate their delights and blessings to others. … The love of self withdraws and takes away all delight from others, draws it into itself, for it wishes well to itself alone. AC [4] The historical parts have been… Read more »
Submission: So my reminder phrase here surprisingly changed within a day of me writing the task into me instead hearing “I am nothing” . What was even more surprising is that each time it was heard and reminded to me – which was fairly often and usually in a state of seeing or feeling caught up in sensual thinking– but not always , sometimes it was just in a state of everydayness. But each time it instantly was like everything falling away and this instant peace ruling over everything…. in a feeling of being nothing at all. It was surprising because… Read more »
Michael Lock
March 13, 2023 8:55 am
CHOSEN EXTRACT: HH408 I have talked with spirits who believed heaven and heavenly joy to consist in their being great; but such were told that in heaven he that is least is greatest, since he is called least who has, and wishes to have, no power or wisdom from himself, but only from the Lord, he that is least in that sense having the greatest happiness, and as he has the greatest happiness, it follows that he is greatest; for he has thereby from the Lord all power and excels all in wisdom. What is it to be the greatest… Read more »
Having just written the above, it is no coincidence that today’s thought for the day from http://www.newchurch.com reads, “Heaven is wishing better for others than for ourselves with all our heart and serving others for the sake of their own happiness, not for any selfish goal but for love.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven 452
In fact, the word ‘coincidence’ is becoming redundant in my life!
HH 400: All that are in hell were, while they were living in the world, in the mere delights of the body and of the flesh from the love of self and of the world; while all that are in the heavens were, while they lived in the world, in the delights of the soul and spirit from love to the Lord and love to the neighbor. HH 401: But the obscure delight and almost imperceptible blessedness of those that had been while in the world in love to God and in love to the neighbor are then turned into the… Read more »
So often I have noticed that when I choose a task, the opposite presents. I ask what is the delight of my spirit? And a noisy crowd of negatives floods in. Past mistakes and failures are always front and center, and usually the noisiest. Trying to see through the parade passing across the spiritual landscape is work indeed as the hells throw all they have into the path that I am walking. A while ago a friend had offered the suggestion of observing the war on the spiritual landscape as a movie. Don’t internalize or identify with it, just observe.… Read more »
HH 389 No angel however arrogates the dignity to himself but ascribes all to the use; since the use is the good he performs and every good is from the Lord. Therefore, he ascribes all to the Lord. HH 399 How great the delight of heaven is, may appear from this circumstance alone, that it is delightful to all in heaven to communicate their delights and blessings to others. … The love of self withdraws and takes away all delight from others, draws it into itself, for it wishes well to itself alone. AC [4] The historical parts have been… Read more »
Submission: So my reminder phrase here surprisingly changed within a day of me writing the task into me instead hearing “I am nothing” . What was even more surprising is that each time it was heard and reminded to me – which was fairly often and usually in a state of seeing or feeling caught up in sensual thinking– but not always , sometimes it was just in a state of everydayness. But each time it instantly was like everything falling away and this instant peace ruling over everything…. in a feeling of being nothing at all. It was surprising because… Read more »
CHOSEN EXTRACT: HH408 I have talked with spirits who believed heaven and heavenly joy to consist in their being great; but such were told that in heaven he that is least is greatest, since he is called least who has, and wishes to have, no power or wisdom from himself, but only from the Lord, he that is least in that sense having the greatest happiness, and as he has the greatest happiness, it follows that he is greatest; for he has thereby from the Lord all power and excels all in wisdom. What is it to be the greatest… Read more »
Having just written the above, it is no coincidence that today’s thought for the day from http://www.newchurch.com reads, “Heaven is wishing better for others than for ourselves with all our heart and serving others for the sake of their own happiness, not for any selfish goal but for love.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven 452
In fact, the word ‘coincidence’ is becoming redundant in my life!
HH 400: All that are in hell were, while they were living in the world, in the mere delights of the body and of the flesh from the love of self and of the world; while all that are in the heavens were, while they lived in the world, in the delights of the soul and spirit from love to the Lord and love to the neighbor. HH 401: But the obscure delight and almost imperceptible blessedness of those that had been while in the world in love to God and in love to the neighbor are then turned into the… Read more »
So often I have noticed that when I choose a task, the opposite presents. I ask what is the delight of my spirit? And a noisy crowd of negatives floods in. Past mistakes and failures are always front and center, and usually the noisiest. Trying to see through the parade passing across the spiritual landscape is work indeed as the hells throw all they have into the path that I am walking. A while ago a friend had offered the suggestion of observing the war on the spiritual landscape as a movie. Don’t internalize or identify with it, just observe.… Read more »