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The Third Round: The Good Ground is A Gentile State Prepared Through the Practice of Truths
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From the Gospel of Matthew 13:23 23 “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” From the work, Arcana Coelestia 3310.2 That the "seed" is the Word of the Lord, thus truth, which is said to be …
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The Third Round: When Our Concept of the Lord Becomes the Lord in His Divine Human For Us
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From the work, Divine Providence 254.5 ...there are many who worship idols and graven images, even in the Christian world. This is indeed idolatrous, and yet not with all; as there are some to whom graven images serve as a means of arousing thought concerning God; for it is by virtue of influx from heaven that those who acknowledge God …
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The Third Round: Whatever Your Experience is of The Word Working in Your Life is What is to Be Brought to the Group
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The Third Round: What it Means to Worship a Visible God
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From the work, Arcana Coelestia 3701 ...one cannot speak of a communication between, and the consequent joining together of the Lord's Divine itself and His Divine Human unless at the same time one calls these attributes infinite and eternal, for in the Lord everything is infinite and eternal - infinite so far as Being (Esse) is concerned and eternal so …
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The Third Round: What a Gentile State In Us Might Look Like
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From the work, Arcana Coelestia 932.2 Every good that stems from charity, even among gentiles, is seed obtained from the Lord. Although with gentiles it is not the good of faith as it may be inside the Church, it can nevertheless develop into the good of faith. In fact gentiles who have led charitable lives, as they are accustomed to …
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The Third Round: We Are Learning To Trust in the Processes of Life
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From the work, Arcana Coelestia 5202.4 From his early infancy to the last of his life in the world and thereafter to eternity, the man who is in good is being born again every moment, not only as to interiors, but also as to exteriors, and this by amazing processes. It is these processes that for the most part constitute …
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The Third Round: The Finite Image of the Lord in the Word is the Basis for Seeing Him as a Divine Human
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From the work, Arcana Celestia 4735.2 The Lord's Human, after it was glorified or made Divine, cannot be thought of as human, but as the Divine love in human form; and this so much the more than the angels, who, when they appear (as seen by me), appear as forms of love and charity under the human shape, and this …
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