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The Third Round: Spiritual Work Constantly Challenges Us To Enter into and Trust the Process
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From the Work Arcana Celestia 5554. Very many communities exist which constitute the outer coverings of the body, all differing from one another from the face down to the soles of the feet; for differences exist wherever you choose to look. I have had many conversations with these communities. So far as their spiritual life was concerned they were the …
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The Third Round: A Historical Faith is Something Fixed and Rigid Whereas A Living Faith is Flexible and Better Able to Meet Life
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From the Spiritual Dairy 5778 ...so far as man acts from proprium, that is, without the living faith that all good is from the Lord, what is from the Lord is not able to flow in, nor anything be arranged into order in the external man. Proprium is that which is contrary to the Divine: it appears also as black, …
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The Third Round: Seeing the Lord as the Word Brings His Power to Transform the Mind into the Here and Now
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From the work The Apocalypse Explained 242.5 ...the faith of knowledges before it becomes the faith of life is historical faith, the nature of which is well known, namely, that it is believed because another has said it; until this has been made man's own it is an alien thing, or something with ourself belonging to someone else. Historical faith, …
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The Third Round: To Discount the Text's Authority in Our Life is a Form of Denying that the Lord's Human is Divine
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Arcana Coelestia 9405 That it is the coming and presence of the Lord in the Word which is signified by "they saw the God of Israel," is because by the laws promulgated from Mount Sinai is signified in a wide sense all Divine truth, thus the Word as to each and all things of it (see n. 6752, 9401). That …
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The Third Round: Divine Truth Brings About a Judgement that Separates What Supports the Spiritual Life from what Doesn't
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The Third Round: To Acknowledge that the Word is Divine is to Give It Authority Over Our Life
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