AC 6585. We were born upon Joseph’s knees. * Being cared for in child-like innocence- knees, a place of conjunction AC 6587… a shell without a kernel *Turns out this imagery is used multiple times, over many texts. Each adding another depth to it. CL 312. XVI. THAT CONJUGIAL LOVE, PRECIPITATED WITHOUT ORDER AND ITS MODES, BURNS OUT THE MARROWS AND IS CONSUMED. This is so stated by some in heaven; and by the marrows they mean the interiors of the mind and body. The reason why these are burned out, that is, are consumed, when conjugial love is precipitated,… Read more »
Submission: I can see the dry bones, the shell and yet the life that I experience feels anything but. It feels nurturing and soft and full of the Lord’s love. It’s been a state of feeling a revisiting or returning or unfolding of innocence that has always been there, from states before I could speak or even walk. That innocence of child-like, unquestioning trust, feeling completely provided for but with an awake understanding. This continues to bring with it an increasing turning to the inner voice within and an increasing trust in this inner perception and a likewise going against… Read more »
Michael Lock
September 11, 2023 4:37 am
LP32 HH 589-603 N598 Extract The reason we cannot be reformed unless we have some freedom is that we are born into evils of all kinds, evils that need to be taken away if we are to be saved. They cannot be taken away unless we see them within ourselves, admit that they are there, then refuse them and ultimately turn away from them. Only then are they taken away. This cannot happen unless we are exposed to both good and evil, since it is from good that we can see evils, though we cannot see what is good from… Read more »
HH 588 In regard to the number of the hells, there are as many of them as there are angelic societies in the heavens, since there is for every heavenly society a corresponding infernal society as its opposite. That the heavenly societies are numberless, and are all distinguished in accordance with the goods of love, charity, and faith, may be seen in the chapter that treats of the societies of which the heavens consist (n. 41-50), and in the chapter on the immensity of heaven (n. 415-420). The like is true, therefore, of the infernal societies, which are distinguished in… Read more »
I was blown away by how much connection I was given to see between this HH session and the final two sessions in AC. Both spoke of, and pointed to, the presence of Societies, Levels, Ways, Journeying, going, or Raising Up, Preservation from evils, holding them in aversion, vastations, and Embalming and Deliverance. All of which are States. When in negative states I was given to see from the Word what was presenting as evil or falsity, which seeing and subsequent fleeing IS a preservation, embalming, or deliverance from the contagion of evil, which Raises up, or offers Refreshment to… Read more »
AC 6585. We were born upon Joseph’s knees. * Being cared for in child-like innocence- knees, a place of conjunction AC 6587… a shell without a kernel *Turns out this imagery is used multiple times, over many texts. Each adding another depth to it. CL 312. XVI. THAT CONJUGIAL LOVE, PRECIPITATED WITHOUT ORDER AND ITS MODES, BURNS OUT THE MARROWS AND IS CONSUMED. This is so stated by some in heaven; and by the marrows they mean the interiors of the mind and body. The reason why these are burned out, that is, are consumed, when conjugial love is precipitated,… Read more »
Submission: I can see the dry bones, the shell and yet the life that I experience feels anything but. It feels nurturing and soft and full of the Lord’s love. It’s been a state of feeling a revisiting or returning or unfolding of innocence that has always been there, from states before I could speak or even walk. That innocence of child-like, unquestioning trust, feeling completely provided for but with an awake understanding. This continues to bring with it an increasing turning to the inner voice within and an increasing trust in this inner perception and a likewise going against… Read more »
LP32 HH 589-603 N598 Extract The reason we cannot be reformed unless we have some freedom is that we are born into evils of all kinds, evils that need to be taken away if we are to be saved. They cannot be taken away unless we see them within ourselves, admit that they are there, then refuse them and ultimately turn away from them. Only then are they taken away. This cannot happen unless we are exposed to both good and evil, since it is from good that we can see evils, though we cannot see what is good from… Read more »
HH 588 In regard to the number of the hells, there are as many of them as there are angelic societies in the heavens, since there is for every heavenly society a corresponding infernal society as its opposite. That the heavenly societies are numberless, and are all distinguished in accordance with the goods of love, charity, and faith, may be seen in the chapter that treats of the societies of which the heavens consist (n. 41-50), and in the chapter on the immensity of heaven (n. 415-420). The like is true, therefore, of the infernal societies, which are distinguished in… Read more »
I was blown away by how much connection I was given to see between this HH session and the final two sessions in AC. Both spoke of, and pointed to, the presence of Societies, Levels, Ways, Journeying, going, or Raising Up, Preservation from evils, holding them in aversion, vastations, and Embalming and Deliverance. All of which are States. When in negative states I was given to see from the Word what was presenting as evil or falsity, which seeing and subsequent fleeing IS a preservation, embalming, or deliverance from the contagion of evil, which Raises up, or offers Refreshment to… Read more »