AC 6532 [3] In Zechariah: In that day I will smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness, and I will open Mine eye upon the house of Judah; but will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness (Zech. 12:4); where “horse” denotes the intellectual; and “rider,” the intellect. Who does not see that “horse” here does not mean horse, nor “rider” rider; but that something is signified which can be smitten with amazement and madness, also with blindness? That this pertains to the understanding is obvious. HH552[2] For in the spiritual world there is a universal… Read more »
Michael Lock
August 14, 2023 5:20 am
LP 30: N551 – N565 Chosen extract from N557 ‘Heavenly love is loving uses for the sake of uses, or goods for the sake of goods … for this is loving God, and loving the neighbour, since all uses and all goods are from God, and are the neighbour who is to be loved.’ Commentary on N557 As I was mulling over this, I came across to the thinking of Saint Thomas Aquinas who suggests that to love God is to love what God loves, which is, of course, the neighbour. Thus, to love the neighbour as oneself, is to… Read more »
HH 551: ALL WHO ARE IN THE HELLS ARE IN EVILS AND IN FALSITIES THEREFROM DERIVED FROM THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD. All who are in the hells are in evils and in falsities therefrom, and no one there is in evils and at the same time in truths. In the world evil men for the most part have some knowledge of spiritual truths, which are the truths of the church, having been taught them from childhood and later by preaching and by reading the Word; and afterwards they have talked about them. Some have even led… Read more »
AC 6532 [3] In Zechariah: In that day I will smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness, and I will open Mine eye upon the house of Judah; but will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness (Zech. 12:4); where “horse” denotes the intellectual; and “rider,” the intellect. Who does not see that “horse” here does not mean horse, nor “rider” rider; but that something is signified which can be smitten with amazement and madness, also with blindness? That this pertains to the understanding is obvious. HH552[2] For in the spiritual world there is a universal… Read more »
LP 30: N551 – N565 Chosen extract from N557 ‘Heavenly love is loving uses for the sake of uses, or goods for the sake of goods … for this is loving God, and loving the neighbour, since all uses and all goods are from God, and are the neighbour who is to be loved.’ Commentary on N557 As I was mulling over this, I came across to the thinking of Saint Thomas Aquinas who suggests that to love God is to love what God loves, which is, of course, the neighbour. Thus, to love the neighbour as oneself, is to… Read more »
HH 551: ALL WHO ARE IN THE HELLS ARE IN EVILS AND IN FALSITIES THEREFROM DERIVED FROM THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD. All who are in the hells are in evils and in falsities therefrom, and no one there is in evils and at the same time in truths. In the world evil men for the most part have some knowledge of spiritual truths, which are the truths of the church, having been taught them from childhood and later by preaching and by reading the Word; and afterwards they have talked about them. Some have even led… Read more »