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The Third Round: Not Identifying with Proprial Chatter in Our Mental Landscape
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From the Spiritual Diary 2099 From manifold and daily experience now for three years it is given me to know that man and spirit is compelled to think and speak that which the Lord permits or allows; for whether I willed or not, I must needs think and speak. It is similar with spirits who are compelled to speak contrary …
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The Third Round: Outer Comparison with Others is the Effect of the Inner Split the Proprium Makes Within
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From the work, Arcana Coelestia 8960 8960. Temptation is induced by evil spirits who dwell with man in his evils and falsities; these spirits excite his evils, and accuse him. But angels from the Lord, who dwell in his goods and truths, call forth the truths of faith which are with him, and defend him. From the work, Arcana Coelestia …
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The Third Round: In Logopraxis We are Asked to Work with What the Text Offers Us
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From the work, Arcana Coelestia 10638.2 When it says that if he observed what Jehovah commanded He would drive out those nations from his face the meaning is, If they carried out the chief commands laid down by eternal truth evils and falsities would be moved or shifted away. Those commands are what come next in the internal sense, the …
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The Third Round: Dealing with the Hard Sayings Through Removing Ideas of Person Place Space and Time
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From the work, Apocalypse Explained 175 "Nations and peoples" are often mentioned in the Word, and those who know nothing of the spiritual or internal sense of the Word, believe that peoples and nations are to be understood. But "peoples" mean those who are in truths, or in the contrary sense those who are in falsities, and "nations" those who …
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