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Natural vs Spiritual temptations Arcana Coelestia 8164. There are spiritual temptations, and there are natural temptations. Spiritual temptations belong to the internal man, but natural ones to the external man. Spiritual temptations sometimes arise without natural temptations, sometimes with them. Natural temptations exist when a man suffers as to the body, as to honors, as to wealth, in a word,...

Arcana Coelestia 8137. And I will be glorified. That this signifies that they should see a Divine effect from the Divine Human of the Lord in the dissipation of falsity, is evident from the signification of “to be glorified,” when said of Jehovah or the Lord, as being a Divine effect, here from His Divine Human, because by coming into the world and assuming the Human and making it Divi...

Arcana Coelestia 8128. “To speak” denotes influx, because in the internal representative sense … Divine truth comes into perception and thought by influx. Thought from perception is internal speech, to which external speech corresponds; and therefore in the internal sense the former is meant by the latter.  Last Judgement 232.The knowledges of truth are inscribed on the affe...

And Pharaoh drew nigh, and the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold the Egyptian marching after them, and they were sore afraid; and the sons of Israel cried unto Jehovah. And they said unto Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt, that thou hast taken us to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou done this to us, to lead us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 8207 Verses 23-25. And the Egyptians pursued, and came after them, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea. And it was in the morning watch, and Jehovah looked forth to the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud, and troubled the camp of the Egyptians. And He took off the wheel of his cha...

Arcana Coelestia 9587. The Lord maintains a person in the freedom to think; and to the extent that external restraints — fear of the law, fear for one’s life, and fear of the loss of reputation, position, or gain — do not hold the person back, He maintains him in the freedom to act. But by means of that freedom He can steer the person away from what is bad, and by means of that freedom steer...

Divine Providence 316. The reason our own prudence convinces and assures us that everything good and true comes from us and is within us is that our own prudence is simply our cognitive sense of identity, flowing from our self-love, which is our emotional sense of identity. Our sense of autonomy inevitably lays claim to everything. It cannot rise above this. Whenever we are being led by the Lord&#...

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such...

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea. And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I wil...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 8177 Verses 15-18. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Why criest thou unto Me? speak unto the sons of Israel, that they set forward. And thou, lift up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and cleave it asunder; and the sons of Israel shall come into the midst of the sea on the dry. And I, behold I harden the heart of the Egyptians, and they shall...

Arcana Coelestia 8118. I have been told by the angels that the most ancient people on this earth dwelt in like manner, that is, distinguished into nations, families and houses; that they were all content with their own goods; and that to grow rich from the goods of others, and to exercise dominion, were then quite unknown. On this account, the ancient times, and especially the most ancient, were m...

Spirits of Jupiter (states of mind) Arcana Coelestia 8111. By long continued interaction with the spirits of the earth Jupiter, it became evident that they are better disposed than the spirits of some other earths. Their approach when they came, their stay, and their influx at the time, were inexpressibly gentle and sweet. In the other life goodness manifests itself by gentleness and sweetness. Th...

AC 8039. In the latter portion of the chapter, and thereafter, the subject treated of is the further preparation of those who were of the spiritual church and who before the coming of the Lord were detained in the lower earth until they could be introduced into heaven, and that for the sake of this end they were first sent through the midst of damnation in safety, and after this underwent temptati...

Transcript So the method and the structure is there as a guide. It’s not sacrosanct as such. So what’s important really has to do with what’s actually arising for us. So as we engage with the Text, things happen and no one has any control over what happens. So whatever your experience is as you engage, that’s what’s being given to you for the group. That’s the t...

Arcana Colestia 8081. And it shall be when thy son asketh thee. That this signifies perception from the truth which is of conscience, is evident from the signification of “to ask,” as being knowledge from perception (see n. 5597 , 5800 , 6250 ); and from the signification of “son,” as being truth ( n. 489 , 491 , 533 , 1147 , 2623 , 3373 ); that it denotes perception from the truth which is of con...

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for swearing he had called the sons of Israel to swear, saying, Visiting God will visit you; and ye shall bring up my bones with you from hence. And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, at the end of the wilderness. And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 8158 Verses 10-14. And Pharaoh drew nigh, and the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold the Egyptian marching after them, and they were sore afraid; and the sons of Israel cried unto Jehovah. And they said unto Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt, that thou hast taken us to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou done this to us, to lead us fo...

Arcana Coelestia 8096. Perchance the people will repent when they see war. That this signifies that they will turn aside from truth by reason of assaults, is evident from the signification of “to repent,” as being to turn aside from truth (of which in what follows); and from the signification of “war,” as being spiritual combats (see n. 1664 , 1788 , 2686 ), thus assaults. That “to repent” denotes...

Arcana Coelestia 8095. For God said. That this signifies the Divine foresight, is evident from the signification of “God said,” when of things future, as being the Divine foresight (see n. 5361 , 6946 ). AC 8094 (Potts). Because that was near. That this signifies that it first comes up, is evident from the signification of “near,” when said of faith separate, as being that it first comes up. How i...

And it shall be when Jehovah shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He sware to thee and to thy fathers, and shall have given it thee, that thou shalt cause to pass over to Jehovah all that openeth the womb; and all that openeth of the offspring of a beast, which shall be to thee males, shall be for Jehovah. And all that openeth of an ass thou shalt redeem with one of the flock...

For a deeper dive into the spiritual and natural world being our spiritual and natural mind – WATCH the video and READ the associated passages from the doctrines for Spiritual Christianity readings here – https://logopraxis-institute.online/2-the-spiritual-and-natural-minds-world/ HH 304… These outward things that are in the natural world are all the contents of our natural or ou...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 8127 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying. That this signifies instruction by the Divine by means of Divine truth, is evident from the signification of "Jehovah spake and said," when concerning those things which shall be done and come to pass, as being instruction by the Divine (see n. 7186, 7241, 7267, 7304, 7380, 7517); and from the representation...

The church is .... Arcana Coelesita 10761. The term 'Church' is appropriate wherever the Lord is acknowledged and the Word exists; for the essential constituents of the Church are love to the Lord and faith in the Lord, received from the Lord, and the Word teaches how a person must live in order to receive love and faith from the Lord. ( this is footnote 1 in HH 308 below) Heaven and Hell 308... T...

AC 8037. They who have the love of self or the love of the world as the end in view, cannot possibly be in charity and faith. They who are in these loves do not even know what charity is, and what faith is, and do not at all comprehend that to will good to the neighbor without any reward is heaven in man, and that in this affection there is happiness as great as is that of the angels, which is unu...

Heaven and earth and levels of heaven Arcana Coelestia 8043[3] ... also, as in Isaiah: Thus said Jehovah thy Redeemer, and thy Former from the womb: I am Jehovah, that doeth all things; that spreadeth out the heavens alone; and that stretcheth out the earth by Myself (Isa. 44:24); by "the heavens and the earth" is meant in the general sense the church internal and external (n. 82, 1411, 1733, 1850...