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Arcana Coelestia
5929. And he kissed all his brethren. That this signifies adjunction from grace, is evident from the signification of “to kiss,” as being conjunction from affection (see n. 3573, 3574, 4353), here adjunction from grace, because the truths of the church in the natural, which are represented by the sons of Jacob, are more remote from internal good, which is Joseph; and things more remote are indeed conjoined through the intermediate with internal good, but yet long retain such things as do not correspond with internal good; and therefore by “kissing his brethren” is signified adjunction from grace.
It is said from grace, not from mercy, because things more remote and not fully correspondent are not in such humiliation that they can implore mercy; from the heart they cannot even mention mercy, but instead thereof grace; and this because the non-correspondent things which adhere are from the love of self, and he who loves himself cannot possibly humble himself from the heart; for he sets himself up, because he regards himself in everything, and makes small account of what is outside of himself.
5946 …The will, in order to see or know anything, must do it through the understanding: there is its sight or eye.
5949 …if essential and not instrumental things are cared for, they shall have instrumental things in abundance. For example: if truths are cared for, they shall have memory-knowledges in abundance, which are the “good of the land of Egypt.” In like manner if good is cared for, they shall have truths in abundance. Memory-knowledges, and also truths, must be cared for, but men must regard good as the end. If the eye is upon good as in the end, the man is then in full view of the consequent things, or in the perception of such as are derived from it, which perception is never possible unless good is the end, that is, unless it reigns universally in each and all things.
Third Round posts are short audio clips taken from Round 3 comments offered in the online Logopraxis Life Group meetings. The aim is to keep the focus on understanding the Text in terms of its application to the inner life along with reinforcing any key LP principles that have been highlighted in the exchanges.
“When those moments come, rejoice! And when they don’t, work!”
I’ve been observing what the proprium does when it senses the ‘rejoice’ moment: It tries immediately to claim the moment as its own victory. It stirs up fears that it can’t last. It derails the appropriate sense of gratitude to the Lord, and replaces it with a demand for yet more ‘joy’. What ‘joy’? It’s own variety…
Yes I’ve also noticed this. It’s almost like it’s how we move down off the peak of the mountain or out of the beauty of the morning state…. doubt of the experience of what we’ve just been given creeps in. Like a wavering in our solid trust in the Lord…. and its just enough for the mocking voices to create doubt. And yet ironically its that coming back into a sense of self and identifying with that moment that leads us to shake our head and try to turn back to a first principle – a solid truth in the… Read more »
Hi Janna – what your observations remind me of is that the infernal proprium constantly seeks to affirm its existence as something autonomous and independent from the Lord through appropriating to itself, life. In those moments when what is of the Lord is seen before its appropriation by the proprium we are provided with a gift from which reflection becomes possible.