Logopraxis

Letting Go of Ownership Over Our States We are told that those entering the second state of awakening who are evil, or those states of exteriors that project what is “good” to conceal hellish interiors, are permitted to move back and forth between their exterior and interior states of mind.  This process of back and forth movement provides the contrast needed to bring about the necessary acknowled...

Click Here to Print Reading 536. THE LORD RULES THE HELLS. Above, in treating of heaven it has been everywhere shown (especially in n. 2-6) that the God of heaven is the Lord, thus that the whole government of the heavens is the Lord’s government. And as the relation of heaven to hell and of hell to heaven is like the relation between two opposites which mutually act contrary to each other,...

The Second State: The State of Interiors (HH 499-511) The second state of awakening builds on the first. The first state is introductory and provides us with a framework for thinking about the spiritual life, as it unfolds within the human mind.  It moves through a process of stripping away those exterior aspects of our sense of self that does not align with interior aspects.  This then creates co...

Working with Spiritual ‘Friends’ The state of man’s spirit that immediately follows his life in the world being such, he is then recognized by his friends and by those he had known in the world; for this is something that spirits perceive not only from one’s face and speech but also from the sphere of his life when they draw near. (HH 494) Because the exterior affections and memory of...

The First State: The State of Exteriors (HH 491-498) The first state of awakening to life in the spiritual world is called “a state of exteriors”.  It is the first state a spirit awakens to on their entry into the spiritual world and, as is suggested in the name given to it, it is largely concerned with the more external aspects of one’s inner or mental life. This first state of man after death co...

In the work Heaven and Hell 491-520 the reader is offered a description of the experience of awakening from death into the World of Spirits. The premise that underpins the Logopraxis approach is that what’s described in these numbers can provide insights into our own awakening to spiritual life through the practice of the Word while still in the natural world. That the same principles that govern...

Click Here to Print Reading 528. IT IS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO LIVE THE LIFE THAT LEADS TO HEAVEN AS IS BELIEVED. There are some who believe that to live the life that leads to heaven, which is called the spiritual life, is difficult, because they have been told that man must renounce the world, must divest himself of the lusts called the lusts of the body and the flesh, and must live spiritually; and...

A short guided meditation to support the work of conscious practice. Psalm 127: Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb...

The human form is love, wisdom and use Conjugial Love 183. After this, the angels said, “Let us have an exchange of speech by questions and answers; for when a subject is taken in solely from hearing, the perception of that subject does indeed flow in, but unless the hearer think of it from himself and ask questions, it does not remain.” [3] Some among that conjugial gathering then sai...

Esse and Existere Apocalypse Explained 1069.2-3 [2] Since the Word is the Divine truth, and this proceeds from the Lord’s Divine Being [Esse] as light proceeds from the sun, it follows as a consequence that the Lord is the Word because He is the Divine truth. The Lord is the Word, because He is the Divine truth, and this proceeds from His Divine Being [Esse], which is the Divine love, becaus...

The literal Text offers an object that can be taken into the mind Arcana Coelestia 10126. The Word in the letter consists of representatives of celestial and spiritual things, which are of heaven and the church, and therefore in the internal sense these are signified. Hence the Word of the Lord may be called as it were heaven in ultimates, for in the ultimates of heaven all things which are seen a...

Click Here to Print Reading 512. LIII. THIRD STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH, WHICH IS A STATE OF INSTRUCTION FOR THOSE WHO ENTER HEAVEN. The third state of man after death, that is, of his spirit, is a state of instruction. This state is for those who enter heaven and become angels. It is not for those who enter hell, because such are incapable of being taught, and therefore their second state is also t...

On the Merit-Guilt cycle Click here for a post On the Merit Guilt Cycle : An excerpt from “Awakening to Spiritual Life Heaven and Hell 491-520 – Part 2” All life flows in Arcana Coelestia 4151 …But that few, nay, very few, believe it to be so, may be seen from the fact that they suppose all life to be in themselves, and scarcely any think that life flows in. All man’s life consists in the fa...

A short guided meditation to support the work of conscious practice. Psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion. We hung our harps Upon the willows in the midst of it. For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song, And those who plundered us requested mirth, Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion! How shall we sing the Lor...

Arcana Coelestia 6405 [2] But who they are that are here signified by “Gad,” shall be told. They are such as fall into illusion with respect to truth, and yet do works from this; thus works not of truth, still less of good. By such works they are driven away from truth, for as soon as a man who is in truth and not yet in good brings anything into act from his religiosity, he afterward defends it a...

Click to Print Reading 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 for him pas...

That by “time” is signified state, and hence by its “coming to pass in this time,” the state of the things that follow, cannot but appear strange; for the reason that it cannot be comprehended how the notion of time can be changed into the notion of state, or that when “time” occurs in the Word, something relating to state is to be understood. But be it known that the thoughts of angels do not der...

Click Here to Print Reading 499. THE SECOND STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH. The second state of man after death is called the state of his interiors, because he is then let into the interiors of his mind, that is, of his will and thought; while his exteriors, which he has been in during his first state, are laid asleep. Whoever gives any thought to man’s life and speech and action can see that eve...

A short guided meditation to support the work of conscious practice. Psalm 3 : Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah. But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head. I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. Se...

Spiritual Experiences 1710. But now [it is to be affirmed] that the life of the  Lord  flows in into all in the universe, for they constitute the  Grand  Body [corpus maximum] and heaven, with the heaven of spirits, which is His body, because it lives from Him, as a  man  lives from his  soul ; i.e. from the  Lord  through the  soul , wherefore all the members, and the parts of the members, cannot...

Not yet, not yet … Arcana Coelestia 6397 . Shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. That this signifies that he is one of the truths in general which the tribes of Israel represent, is evident from the signification of “judging,” as being truth in its office (of which below); from the signification of “people,” as being those who are in truth ( n. 1259 ,  1260 ,  2928 ,  3295 ,...

Click to Print Reading 6466. Continuation about influx, and about the interaction of the soul and the body. At the end of the preceding chapters it was shown that each life with man, namely, the life of his thought and the life of his will, flows in from heaven, and this through the angels and spirits who are with him; but by flowing in from heaven is meant that it flows in through heaven from the...

A short guided meditation to support the work of conscious practice. Psalm 97 : The Lord reigns; Let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad! Clouds and darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. A fire goes before Him, And burns up His enemies round about. His lightnings light the world; The earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax...

The World of Spirits Heaven and Hell 421. The world of spirits is not heaven, nor is it hell, but it is the intermediate place or state between the two, for it is the place into which man comes after death; and from which, after a certain time, according to his life in the world, he is either elevated into heaven, or cast into hell. On good appearing when evil is removed  CL 444… “Do you not...

Click Here to Print Reading 485. THE DELIGHTS OF EVERY ONE’S LIFE ARE CHANGED AFTER DEATH INTO THINGS THAT CORRESPOND. It has been shown in the preceding chapter that the ruling affection or dominant love in everyone continues to eternity. It shall now be explained how the delights of that affection or love are changed into things that correspond. Being changed into corresponding things mean...