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An except from Logopraxis : Awakening to Spiritual Life : Heaven and Hell 491-520 (click on this link to read the full article)

Removal of Exteriorly Held Images of the Self

The main function involved in this first state is to create a plane in the exterior mind that can faithfully express what is more interior.  This is achieved through a process involving the stripping away of the exteriors of the spirit and then reforming them so that they are responsive to interiors (HH 498).  This process of stripping and ordering is necessary…

For man is accustomed from childhood to maintain a semblance of friendship, benevolence, and sincerity, and to conceal the thoughts of his own will, thereby living from habit a moral and civil life in externals, whatever he may be internally. As a result of this habit man scarcely knows what his interiors are, and gives little thought to them. (HH 492)

A spirit’s introduction to the spiritual world involves coming to terms with a few home truths concerning their sense of self and what the quality of the “thoughts of [their] own will” actually are.  This process involves the removal of any self-deceptive images a spirit carries of themselves and the false thinking that supports this. As we can see in HH 498 the length of time (reflective of states) a newly arrived spirit undergoes of being processed in the world of spirits, is related to the depth of attachment they have to these false images they carry of themselves. This is described as a difficult and even a painful experience. It needs to be remembered that it is a spiritual law that exteriors must match interiors and that it is not permitted for a spirit to have an exterior that doesn’t align with their interiors.

For Logopraxis practitioners, the awakening to the spiritual or interior life of the mind through the practice of the Word, produces the same experience described here of having the exterior self-image one carries, exposed for what it is. When we begin to seek to live by truths from the Word through a practice of self-examination and repentance, our sense of self starts to experience varying degrees of disruption. The process involves coming to see that we are not in fact who we thought we were. This is often a painful experience and because of this there exists a strong cultural tendency to avoid the kind of introspective work required for developing a spiritual life.

Logopraxis looks to support its members so that they can engage in spiritual work but it doesn’t look to offer ways to help people escape from spiritual struggles or avoid passing through genuine spiritual processes.  The core teaching in Logopraxis, that the Word is the Lord, applies here. If we are looking to the Lord as the Word to direct and guide our work, then it follows that no matter how difficult things may appear in the present, He has it all in hand and is able to carry us through. The Lord alone sees what the eternal ends for every life are.  He alone as the Word, is the only one able to manage the incredible level of complexity involved in the regeneration of the individual and collective human mind.

Arcana Colesita

10048 (2). With those who are being regenerated the interior and exterior things are set in order by the Lord for all the following states, insomuch that things present involve things future, and when things future become present they do the same, and this to eternity; for the Lord foresees all, and provides all, and His foresight and providence are to eternity, thus are eternal. For the Divine, which alone is His, in itself is infinite, and the infinite relatively to duration is eternal. Hence whatsoever the Lord disposes and sets in order is eternal. This is the case with those whom the Lord regenerates.

The regeneration of man begins in the world and continues to eternity, for when a man becomes an angel he is always being perfected. There are in man things external, internal, and inmost; all these are disposed and set in order together and successively for the reception to eternity of the things that follow.

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.