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
The emphasis that NO person in the Word, including Jesus (anything pertaining to the Mary human) ascends to angelic consciousness, is a wonderful and absolutely essential principle for approaching the Word effectively, and allowing the Word to BE the manifestation of the Lord’s Divine Human in our lives.
Merry Christmas, David, and blessings for all of us in the Lord’s providing.
Thanks Janna – He provides much. This is a little something provided when thinking about the Christmas story… How the Christmas story in the Synoptic Gospels aligns with the opening of John’s Gospel – that Mary and Joseph – i.e. the will and understanding can’t be united until after the Lord is born, births represent acknowledgement, so the birth of the Lord into the world represents the acknowledgement that the Lord’s Human is Divine. From a Logopraxis perspective this speaks to the process of how the goods and truths of the Word within the mind are only united once the… Read more »
“That the Word is the Lord seems to me to be the Gospel the New Church is called to proclaim.”
Can it equally be said “that the Lord is the Word”? I feel I have heard both these ideas asserted as part of New Church doctrine, but often, I think people mean it more as a figure of speech than a fact, which really isn’t the same thing. Perhaps it is a figure of speech until the Word is risen in our lives.
Yes – both forms are used, the “Lord is the Word” is more frequent. Different subject/object emphasis. Came across this again this morning… DP 172 [3] Second: The Lord is the Word because it is the Divine Truth of the Divine Good. That the Lord is the Word He teaches in John in these words: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. John i. 1, 14. As this passage has hitherto been understood to mean only that God taught… Read more »
Christmas blessings to my LP Friends and Neighbors!
This has been a terrific recording to wrap up the year. So many beautiful summations contained. References to the Divine Human continue to assist my understanding, and most importantly expeditious movement to useful acts and behaviors.
Thank you David!
When you have a moment, could you send along the number that is contained there in?
Peace + Love
Hi Hal Blessing to you too 🙂 Here is the number read in this Round 3 audio. Elliot 5225. ‘And there was no one to interpret them for Pharaoh’ means that no knowledge existed of what was going to happen. This is clear from the meaning of ‘interpreting’ as knowing what was going to happen, dealt with in 5141, and therefore ‘no one to interpret’ means no knowledge of it since ‘no one’ in the internal sense means the absence and so non-existence of some reality. For the idea of a person is converted in the internal sense into that… Read more »