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The Third Round: The transformative changes to the structures of our mind occur slowly and incrementally
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Arcana Coelestia 6138... By receptacles are meant the very forms of men; for men are nothing else than forms receptive of life from the Lord, and these forms are such by inheritance and by actual life that they refuse to admit the spiritual life which is from the Lord. But when these receptacles have been so far renounced that they …
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Learning To Read The Text With Conscious Attention
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The Text Is The Means Given For Our Regeneration For anyone who enters this work there is a level of acknowledgement that the Heavenly Doctrines are the texts that have been provided by the Lord to support the regeneration of the human mind. With this as our starting principle we can then surmise that the Text is what is given …
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The Third Round: Why is despair and desolation part of the process?
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Arcana Coelestia 6144 . . . Despair causes those who feel it to acknowledge in an effectual and feeling manner that there is nothing of truth and good from themselves, and that from themselves they are condemned; but that they are delivered from condemnation by the Lord; and that salvation flows in by means of truth and good. Despair also …
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The Third Round: Truths appear to fail as the Text seeks to offer illustrations in our life of what it's describing
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Arcana Coelestia 6115... In regard to true and adaptable memory-knowledges being brought into relation to what is general, be it known that in order to be anything, all memory-knowledges and also all truths whatsoever, must be brought into relation to their generals, and must be placed and contained in and under a general, as otherwise they are at once dissipated. …
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Click Here to Print Reading 346. XXXVIII. THE WISE AND THE SIMPLE IN HEAVEN. It is believed that in heaven the wise will have more glory and eminence than the simple, because it is said in Daniel: They that are intelligent shall shine as with the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars …
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The Third Round: Outcomes - A weapon for the proprium and a gift of being in the 'now' from the Lord
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Arcana Coelestia 6138. And we shall live, and our ground, servants to Pharaoh. That this signifies total submission, is evident from the signification of “we and our ground,” as being the receptacles of good and of truth (as just above, see n. 6135-6137); and from the signification of “servants,” as being to be without freedom from man’s own (see n. …
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Click to Print Reading 6248. Verses 8, 9. And Israel saw the sons of Joseph, and said, Whose are these? And Joseph said unto his father, These are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Take them I pray unto me, and I will bless them. "And Israel saw the sons of Joseph," signifies a perception …
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The Third Round: The Word teaches that alternations of state are an eternal process. When we accept this then hope and tranquility arises to be received
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Arcana Coelestia 6112... A memory-knowledge is said to be true and adaptable that has not been darkened by fallacies, which, so long as they cannot be dispelled, render the memory-knowledge unadaptable; and so also is a memory-knowledge which has not become perverted by applications to falsities and to evils by others or by oneself, for when these have once been …
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The Third Round: A consolidation and return of things to the Lord
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Arcana Coelestia 6088. Verses 7-10. And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been …
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