AC 7273 …. The reason why it is said that to those who are in falsities warnings are given of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is that the condemnation of those who are in evils is not effected in a moment when they come into the other life, but after they have first been visited, that is, examined. The examinations are made in order that they themselves may take notice that they cannot but be condemned, because they have not lived differently, and also in order that spirits and angels may know that they have been of such… Read more »
Judy & Len Robinson
November 20, 2024 4:28 pm
ACV9S24-Judy # 7255.” Exodus 7 THE DOCTRINE OF CHARITY Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell, it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is. It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord, and to charity toward the neighbor; and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world. Hence it follows that it is from the loves, and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is.… Read more »
What are the evils that we need to be delivered from?
AC 7272 inform us they are the evils of self-love and love of the world and the evils of falsity. Task1: Using the principle that self-love and love of the world give rise to hellish conditions, discern examples operating in my personal world and the outside world. Task2: The processes of relaxation, visualisation and enthusiastic optimismenable people to recover from pathogens invading the body. Review what resources you have to consolidate a toolkit to promote recovery from illness.
Hal Rosner
November 15, 2024 1:05 am
AC – 7255-7286 PRINCIPLE (from 7273) But the order which is the good who are being saved is of truth Divine, conjoined with the Divine good, thus with mercy; because they have received the Divine good, thus the mercy of the Lord. The work and process of regeneration brings with it the Lord’s mercy. *Also, some work with vastation and its three degrees: ~when mere fallacies are being retained as part of a belief system ~a rigid adherence resulting in an evolution of truth becoming falsity and falsity becoming truth ~false ideologies are used to reason against truth. *And, @7268:… Read more »
7270… there is but one substance which is substance, and all other things are formations from it; and in the formations this one only substance rules, not only as form, but even as not form, as in its origin. If this were not the case, what is formed could in nowise subsist and act. 7258… one is not the neighbor the same as another. 7268… that which is properly called “heaven” is nothing else than the Divine formed there, because the angels who are in heaven are human forms recipient of the Divine, and constituting a common form, which is that… Read more »
The understanding is not quick to shift, it is slow and plodding. The new will is received in the silent work of the renunciation of the native will. When combined together – their weaknesses become strengths. What has also been a “prodigy(wonder) or sign” this cycle was the expression of goods and truths that were offered in previous states which at the time seemed as though they had not been heard or received .Which is interesting in light of the state in the Text that describes Pharaoh as not being able to hear… states change… Many things happen in secret,… Read more »
Principle: AC 7268 From Divine Good proceeds Divine Truth and makes heaven. Heaven is from Divine Truth there. Angels are human forms recipient of the Divine. Task: Obey known truths and see how these impact spiritual conditions of the mind depicted in AC 7260
7256. All things in the universe which are according to Divine order have relation to good and truth; and all things in the universe which are contrary to Divine order have relation to evil and falsity. The reason is that the good and truth which proceed from the Divine make order, insomuch that they are order. 7280 For fear is a common bond, both for those who are upright, and for those who are evil; but for those who are upright the fear is internal, which is fear for the sake of salvation, namely, lest they should perish as to… Read more »
In my physical life I am extremely busy, and have had to just keep chipping away at an endless list. In a way this is bringing my outer life into more order but it looks like a lot of disorder in the process. As for my spiritual life I have felt more order here. I have had it confirmed and reconfirmed that the only way I can get any change and order happening in my life is to keep examining my thoughts and actions and asking the Lord to save me from a deluge of negative emotions and thoughts, mostly… Read more »
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Denyse Daurat
November 12, 2024 8:11 am
7280 But with the upright it is an inward fear, that is, fear for their salvation, or fear lest they should lose their own souls, to be exact, and on that account lest they should do anything contrary to conscience, that is, contrary to the truth and goodness which compose conscience. Consequently, they fear lest they should do anything contrary to what is just and fair, thus contrary to their neighbor. But this fear becomes holy fear to the extent that it is wedded to love to the Lord. Task: Observe if my conscience alerts me to the fear of… Read more »
AC 7255: Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell, it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is. It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord, and to charity toward the neighbor; and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world. Hence it follows that it is from the loves, and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is. AC 7273: Warnings are given of every… Read more »
7273. And I will multiply my signs and My wonders. That this signifies warnings of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is evident from the signification of “signs and wonders,” as being confirmations of the truth (see n. 3900, 6870, 7012), and also means of Divine power (n. 6910); here warnings; for thereby they both saw that they were in falsities, and saw the Divine power, and in this way were warned. The reason why it is said that to those who are in falsities warnings are given of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is that the… Read more »
Liz Coggins
November 8, 2024 7:13 am
7265: ….The second degree of vastation is that truths themselves became falsities with them, and that falsities became truths.
Task:
What does this look like in person, place, and time? How does this manifest in me, what truths in me become falsities, and falsities truths? Can I protect against it?
Submission: Definitely a way I turn truth into falsity is by claiming virtue to myself, and this in so many ways that can escape notice. I need to establish a clear sense of difference between living from self and living from as of self…...as a lived experience. And turning falsity into (apparent) truth happens when I assume that judgements made from self are true, and become established in me when I believe them as truth….which happens when I judge a person or situation on appearance, based on my own limited fallacious understanding. I am trying to learn how judgement differs from discernment; and the… Read more »
AC 7273 …. The reason why it is said that to those who are in falsities warnings are given of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is that the condemnation of those who are in evils is not effected in a moment when they come into the other life, but after they have first been visited, that is, examined. The examinations are made in order that they themselves may take notice that they cannot but be condemned, because they have not lived differently, and also in order that spirits and angels may know that they have been of such… Read more »
ACV9S24-Judy # 7255.” Exodus 7 THE DOCTRINE OF CHARITY Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell, it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is. It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord, and to charity toward the neighbor; and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world. Hence it follows that it is from the loves, and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is.… Read more »
Thank you for bringing this teaching forward.
What are the evils that we need to be delivered from?
AC 7272 inform us they are the evils of self-love and love of the world and the evils of falsity.
Task1: Using the principle that self-love and love of the world give rise to hellish conditions, discern examples operating in my personal world and the outside world.
Task2: The processes of relaxation, visualisation and enthusiastic optimism enable people to recover from pathogens invading the body. Review what resources you have to consolidate a toolkit to promote recovery from illness.
AC – 7255-7286 PRINCIPLE (from 7273) But the order which is the good who are being saved is of truth Divine, conjoined with the Divine good, thus with mercy; because they have received the Divine good, thus the mercy of the Lord. The work and process of regeneration brings with it the Lord’s mercy. *Also, some work with vastation and its three degrees: ~when mere fallacies are being retained as part of a belief system ~a rigid adherence resulting in an evolution of truth becoming falsity and falsity becoming truth ~false ideologies are used to reason against truth. *And, @7268:… Read more »
7270… there is but one substance which is substance, and all other things are formations from it; and in the formations this one only substance rules, not only as form, but even as not form, as in its origin. If this were not the case, what is formed could in nowise subsist and act. 7258… one is not the neighbor the same as another. 7268… that which is properly called “heaven” is nothing else than the Divine formed there, because the angels who are in heaven are human forms recipient of the Divine, and constituting a common form, which is that… Read more »
The understanding is not quick to shift, it is slow and plodding. The new will is received in the silent work of the renunciation of the native will. When combined together – their weaknesses become strengths. What has also been a “prodigy(wonder) or sign” this cycle was the expression of goods and truths that were offered in previous states which at the time seemed as though they had not been heard or received .Which is interesting in light of the state in the Text that describes Pharaoh as not being able to hear… states change… Many things happen in secret,… Read more »
Principle: AC 7268 From Divine Good proceeds Divine Truth and makes heaven. Heaven is from Divine Truth there. Angels are human forms recipient of the Divine.
Task: Obey known truths and see how these impact spiritual conditions of the mind depicted in AC 7260
7256. All things in the universe which are according to Divine order have relation to good and truth; and all things in the universe which are contrary to Divine order have relation to evil and falsity. The reason is that the good and truth which proceed from the Divine make order, insomuch that they are order. 7280 For fear is a common bond, both for those who are upright, and for those who are evil; but for those who are upright the fear is internal, which is fear for the sake of salvation, namely, lest they should perish as to… Read more »
In my physical life I am extremely busy, and have had to just keep chipping away at an endless list. In a way this is bringing my outer life into more order but it looks like a lot of disorder in the process. As for my spiritual life I have felt more order here. I have had it confirmed and reconfirmed that the only way I can get any change and order happening in my life is to keep examining my thoughts and actions and asking the Lord to save me from a deluge of negative emotions and thoughts, mostly… Read more »
7280 But with the upright it is an inward fear, that is, fear for their salvation, or fear lest they should lose their own souls, to be exact, and on that account lest they should do anything contrary to conscience, that is, contrary to the truth and goodness which compose conscience. Consequently, they fear lest they should do anything contrary to what is just and fair, thus contrary to their neighbor. But this fear becomes holy fear to the extent that it is wedded to love to the Lord. Task: Observe if my conscience alerts me to the fear of… Read more »
AC 7255: Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell, it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is. It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord, and to charity toward the neighbor; and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world. Hence it follows that it is from the loves, and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is. AC 7273: Warnings are given of every… Read more »
i must decrease, He must Increase.
7273. And I will multiply my signs and My wonders. That this signifies warnings of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is evident from the signification of “signs and wonders,” as being confirmations of the truth (see n. 3900, 6870, 7012), and also means of Divine power (n. 6910); here warnings; for thereby they both saw that they were in falsities, and saw the Divine power, and in this way were warned. The reason why it is said that to those who are in falsities warnings are given of every kind, nor shall anything be wanting, is that the… Read more »
7265: ….The second degree of vastation is that truths themselves became falsities with them, and that falsities became truths.
Task:
What does this look like in person, place, and time? How does this manifest in me, what truths in me become falsities, and falsities truths? Can I protect against it?
Submission: Definitely a way I turn truth into falsity is by claiming virtue to myself, and this in so many ways that can escape notice. I need to establish a clear sense of difference between living from self and living from as of self…...as a lived experience. And turning falsity into (apparent) truth happens when I assume that judgements made from self are true, and become established in me when I believe them as truth….which happens when I judge a person or situation on appearance, based on my own limited fallacious understanding. I am trying to learn how judgement differs from discernment; and the… Read more »