Logopraxis

Excerpt from the Logopraxis Workbook : Logopraxis Life Groups are an opportunity to practise spiritual literacy as we speak and listen when we meet. They are a hermetically sealed container within which the material gathered from each individual’s practice can serve as the basis for creating a unique environment. It is where we may learn to be with others in a new way, and where the practise...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 7410 Verses 11-15. And Pharaoh saw that there was breathing, and he made heavy his heart, and heard them not, as Jehovah had spoken. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, and it shall become lice in all the land of Egypt. And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smo...

And seven days were fulfilled after that Jehovah had smitten the river. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold I will smite all thy border with frogs; and the river shall make frogs to creep forth, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber,...

True Christian Religion 11. (4) AS TO THE NATURE OF THIS ONE GOD, NATIONS AND PEOPLES HAVE DIFFERED AND STILL DIFFER, FROM SEVERAL CAUSES. The first cause is that a rational conception of God, and a consequent acknowledgment of Him, are not attainable without revelation. Such a conception, with the consequent acknowledgment that “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,”...

Transcipt: So getting better is not about meeting some ideal of what it is to be a good person. That’s not getting better in this work. What getting better in this work is to be better able to discern what is evil and false. That’s getting better. So the struggle is coming to terms with that because the Lord is omnipresent. What is good and true is omnipresent. The problem is not that...

Arcana Coelestia 7317. And they shall be turned into blood. That this signifies that they shall falsify truths, is evident from the signification of “blood,” as being truth falsified (see  n. 4735 ,  6978 ); for “blood” in the genuine sense denotes the truth proceeding from the Lord, thus the holy of faith; this is signified by “blood” in the Holy Supper; but in the opposite sense “blood...

Third Round posts are short audio clips taken from Round 3 comments offered in the online Logopraxis Life Group meetings. The aim is to keep the focus on understanding the Text in terms of its application to the inner life along with reinforcing any key LP principles that have been highlighted in the exchanges.

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 7366 Exodus 8 THE DOCTRINE OF CHARITY It was said above that the loves of self and of the world make hell with man; and now the quality of these loves is to be told, in order that a man may know whether he is in them, and consequently whether hell or heaven is in him; for in man himself is either hell or heaven. That the kingdom of God is within man,...

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is made heavy, he refuseth to let the people go. Go unto Pharaoh in the morning; behold he goeth out unto the waters; and stand thou to meet him near the bank of the river; and the rod which was turned into a serpent take in thy hand. And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let My people go, that they...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 7345 Verses 25, 26,* 27, 28, 29. And seven days were fulfilled after that Jehovah had smitten the river. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold I will smite all thy border with frogs; and the river shall make frogs to cree...

The following is an excerpt from the The Logopraxis Workbook (Step 3) … The Purpose & Focus of Our Task We set tasks to create opportunities to observe the behaviour of the hellish proprium, and our identification with it. We are not working to change it or make it better; we are working to affirm what the Word teaches concerning it and its nature. It is our acceptance of what the Word t...

Arcana Coelestia 730…anyone undergoing temptation experiences vastation of all things that belong to the proprium and of things that are bodily – for things of the proprium and those that are bodily have to die, doing so indeed through conflict and temptation, before he is reborn a new man, that is, before he becomes spiritual and celestial. AC 5246. And they brought him hastily out of the p...

Arcana Coelestia 7258. The doctrine of celestial good, which is that of love to the Lord, is the most ample and at the same time the most secret; but the doctrine of spiritual good, which is that of charity toward the neighbor, is also ample and secret, but less so than the doctrine of celestial good, which is the doctrine of love to the Lord. That the doctrine of charity is ample can be seen from...

Arcana Coelestia 7296… And from the signification of “sorcerers,” as being those who pervert Divine order, thus who pervert the laws of order. That sorcery and magic are nothing else, can be seen from sorcerers, especially in the other life where they abound. For they who in the life of the body have practiced cunning, and have devised various arts for defrauding others, and at last from the...

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 sta...

Arcana Coelestia 2888. The truth is that the life of everyone, both of man, of spirit, and also of angel, flows in solely from the Lord, who is life itself; and diffuses itself through the whole heaven and also through hell, thus into everyone; and this in an order and series incomprehensible: but the life which flows in is received by each one according to his disposition. Good and truth are rece...

Mediate and immediate influx of truth 7270. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh. That this signifies the reception of the influx of the Divine and its communication, is evident from the representation of Moses, who was to speak, as being Divine truth; and from the representation of Aaron, as being the doctrine thence derived (see  n. 7089 )...

No one, whoever he may be, whether man, spirit, or angel can will and think from himself; but from others; nor can these others will and think from themselves, but all again from others, and so on … Arcana Coelestia 2886. As to man’s affections and thoughts, the case is this: No one, whoever he may be, whether man, spirit, or angel can will and think from himself; but from others; nor can th...

One the “Merit – Guilt Cycle” – 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...

On the Difference between the Spiritual and Natural Arcana Coelestia 141. Innumerable things might be said about man’s Own 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 is his all, he knows of nothing else than his Own, and imagines, as before said, that if he were to lose this Own he wou...

The spiritual church(state) is about warfare Arcana Coelestia 7233. [2] In respect to this matter, be it known further that the doctrine of the spiritual church is not that of truth Divine itself, because those who are of the spiritual church have no perception of truth Divine, as have those who are of the celestial church; but instead of this perception they have conscience, which is formed from...

Arcana Coelestia 7186…But it is according to order that everyone carries with him his life which he had lived in the world, and his state in the other life is according to this, and that the mercy of the Lord flows in with all, but is diversely received, and by those who are in evil, is rejected; and as in the world they have imbued themselves with evil, they also retain it in the other life...

Wanting the liberation from hell(the proprium) to happen all at once Arcana Coelestia 7186[3] That those who are of the spiritual church, and who are in the lower earth, would be gradually liberated from infestations, and not immediately, is because the evils and falsities that cling to them cannot otherwise be removed, and goods and truths be instilled in their place; for this is effected by many...

Arcana Coelestia 7190.  Verses 2-8 . And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah; and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, in God Shaddai; and by My name Jehovah I was not known to them. And I also set up My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. And moreover I have heard the groaning of the son...

Arcana Coelestia 7298… Such dullness is also induced by magicians in the other life, and this by the abuse and perversion of order, for they know how to take away the influx of heaven, and when this is taken away there is dullness in the noticing of truth; and they also know how to induce fallacies, and to present them in a light like the light of truth, and at the same time to obscure the r...