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The Third Round: You Can't Shun What You Can't See - How the Word Saves Us
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From the work, Divine Love and Wisdom 246 246. This spiritual heat is obtained only by shunning evils as sins, and at the same time looking to the Lord. For so long as a man is in evils he is also in the love of them, because he lusts after them, and the love of evil or lust is a …
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The Third Round: How LP Connects Outer and Inner Life
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From the work, Heaven and Hell 360 Man can be formed for heaven only by means of the world. In the world are the outmost effects in which everyone's affection must be terminated; for unless affection puts itself forth or flows out into acts, which is done in association with others, it is suffocated to such a degree finally that …
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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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