Logopraxis

The Doctrine of Reflection Spiritual Experiences 733-741 733. About reflection. I was just conversing with spirits and angels about reflection, to which I do not know whether people have given enough attention; and it was said that if they give it some thought, they will discover more secrets in the doctrine of reflection than in any other. What reflection achieves can be quite clear to everyone f...

Continuation on Influx and the Intercourse of the Soul and Body : Arcana Coelestia 6598-6626 6608 …The light of understanding has been given to me, taken away, lessened, and moderated when I have been thinking, speaking, and writing. 6604…They are closer at one time to one community, at another time to another community, and when they are in among one community, all the other communiti...

We see what we know Arcana Coelestia 6598… they who are able to think above the things of sense, provided the things in the memory have been set in order, possess a greater capacity than others to understand and perceive, and this according to the degree in which they view things from what is interior. AC 6599…thought diffuses itself into the societies of spirits and of angels round ab...

Click to Print Reading 6728. Verses 5-9. And Pharaoh’s daughter came down to wash at the river; and her girls were going at the side of the river; and she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid, and took it. And she opened it and saw him, the child; and behold the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. And his sist...

And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrew women, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; and if it be a daughter, then she shall live. And the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt spoke to them,...

Spiritual work is not about blocking negative thoughts or not having them but is instead about observing them. For when we can observe them and see firsthand for ourselves that what the Word teaches about the nature of the hellish self is true, then this allows the Text to confirm Itself to us.  It confirms that it is actually what it claims it is – Divine Truth given to save us from hell. B...

What is the neighbour? Arcana Coelestia 6819. But not only is man in the singular the neighbor, but also man in the plural. For a society, smaller or greater, is the neighbor; our country is the neighbor; the church is the neighbor; the Lord ’s kingdom is the neighbor; and so above all is the  Lord . All these are the neighbor who is to be benefited from charity. These also are ascending degrees o...

Bones and Flesh AC 156. Verse 23  And the man said, By this change, it is bone from my  bones  and  flesh  from my  flesh ; for this she will be called Wife, because she was taken out of man (vir). ‘Bone from  bones  and  flesh  from  flesh ‘ means the proprium belonging to the external man, ‘bone’ the proprium that has been given not much life, ‘ flesh ‘ the pr...

The Story Arcana Coelestia 6497 .  GENESIS 50 1. And Joseph fell upon the faces of his father, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of the embalmed; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. 4. And the days of weeping...

Click to Print Reading 6695. On the inhabitants of other earths. As of the Lord’s Divine mercy the interiors of my spirit have been opened, and it has thus been granted me to speak with those who are in the other life, not only with those from this earth, but also with those from other earths, therefore, as it was my desire to know about these latter, and as the things that have been given m...

And there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and numerous more than we. Come, let us use prudence with it; peradventure it will be multiplied, and it will be that wars will happen, and it will also join itself to our enemies, and fight against us, and go up out of the land. And they set over it princes of...

What are the things that we possess that are held in common with spirits and angels? Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 70 . VII. THE WORD IS IN ALL THE HEAVENS, AND IS THE SOURCE OF ANGELIC WISDOM. Hitherto it has not been known that the Word is in the heavens, nor could it be made known so long as the church was ignorant that angels and spirits are men like the men in this world, and that they possess...

The Word is the Lord Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 47… Where the Lord is meant, there also is meant the Word, for the Lord is the Word. Apocalypse Explained 797 Moreover, the Word is the Lord because it is from the Lord, for the reason that the Word is the Divine truth, and the Divine truth proceeds from the Lord as a sun, and what proceeds belongs to Him from whom it proceeds, yea, is Himself; Doc...

On reformation and regeneration True Christian Religion 571. CHAPTER 1. REFORMATION AND REGENERATION . After treating of Repentance,  Reformation and Regeneration  come next in order, because they follow repentance, and by means of it advance step by step. There are two states that man must enter upon and pass through, when from being natural he is becoming spiritual. The first state is called  Re...

Click to Print Reading 6672. Verses 15-21. And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrew women, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; and if it be a daughter, then she shall live. And the midwives feared God, and d...

The Wordly, Spiritual and Celestial man’s Own(Proprium) AC 141 . Innumerable things might be said about man’s Own(Proprium) in describing its nature with the corporeal and worldly man, with the spiritual man, and with the celestial man. With the corporeal and worldly man, his Own(Proprium) is his all, he knows of nothing else than his Own(Proprium), and imagines, as before said, that if he w...

Here is a Round 3 recording of a general overview of the transition from Genesis to Exodus, along with some definitions of terms like: church, charity and the ‘good of …’.   The Contents Summaries Here also are two documents which contain the extracted portions of the text from the Arcana Coelesita titled “The Contents”.  This may be something that you find usefu...

The natural mind cannot come up with anything on its own  Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 115 . But as there are those who maintain, and have confirmed themselves in the opinion, that without a Word it is possible for a man to know of the existence of God, and of heaven and hell, and of all the other things taught by the Word, and as they thereby weaken the authority and holiness of the Word, if not...

Arcana Coelestia Genesis Chapter 50:13-22. And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a sepulcher, from Ephron the Hittite, upon the faces of Mamre. And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father....

Arcana Coelestia 6497.Genesis: CH 50 7-11. And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8. And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their babes, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9. And there went up with him both chariot...

Click to Print Reading 6650. Verses 8-14. And there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and numerous more than we. Come, let us use prudence with it;* peradventure it will be multiplied, and it will be that wars will happen, and it will also join itself to our enemies, and fight against us, and go up out o...

Arcana Coelestia 6497.Genesis: CH 50 7-11. And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8. And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their babes, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9. And there went up with him both chariot...

The Word allows the seeing that we are withheld from the evil of the proprium (of what is ‘own’). Arcana Coelestia 1661.[3] Every man combats first of all from the goods and truths he has received through knowledges; and from them and by them he judges about evils and falsities. Every man also, when he first begins to combat, supposes that the goods and truths from which he combats are...

On Enlightenment Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 57 . iii. The genuine truth which must be of doctrine appears in the sense of the letter to none but those who are in enlightenment from the Lord. Enlightenment is from the Lord alone, and exists with those who love truths because they are truths and make them of use for life. With others there is no enlightenment in the Word. The reason why enlightenm...

Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 50 . V. The Doctrine of the church is to be drawn from the sense of the letter of he Word, and is to be confirmed thereby. It has been shown in the preceding chapter that the Word in the sense of the letter is in its fullness, in its holiness, and in its power; and as the Lord is the Word (for He is the all of the Word), it follows that He is most of all present in the...