Logopraxis

Click to Print Reading 6598. Continuation about influx, and about the interaction of the soul and the body. It is known that one man excels another in the capacity to understand and perceive what is honorable in moral life, what is just in civil life, and what is good in spiritual life. The cause of this consists in the elevation of the thought to the things that pertain to heaven, whereby the tho...

He rules as order in all things Arcana Coelestia 6469. I have also been allowed through influx to experience the sweetness of the angels, which is the feeling they gain from thinking and willing not from themselves but from the Lord – a feeling which brings them tranquillity, peace, and happiness. 6473. That the Lord rules the last things of man equally as his first, can be seen from the fac...

Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 9. 2. No one can see what these things signify except from the spiritual sense of the Word, and no one can see the spiritual sense except from a knowledge of correspondences; for all the words are correspondences and not one word is without meaning. Arcana Coelestia 10325. The books of the Word are all those which have an internal sense; and those which have not an int...

Click Here to Print Reading 589. THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL. For any thing to have existence there must be an equilibrium of all things. Without equilibrium is no action and reaction; for equilibrium is between two forces, one acting and the other reacting, and the state of rest resulting from like action and reaction is called equilibrium. In the natural world there is an equilibrium...

From the Logopraxis Workbook The Life Group as a Human Form or Collective Person The human form is the Divine form, and is that which comes into being as the only possible expression of the Lord’s life within those He is creating. This means that on the largest or smallest scale of creation all is organised or strives towards a more complete and thereby perfect, human form. In Heaven and Hell 73 i...

The atonement and appearances of a vengeful God Doctrine of the Lord 18. It is believed in the church that the Lord was sent by the Father to make an atonement for the human race, and that this was effected by His fulfilling the law, and by the passion of the cross; and that in this way He took away condemnation, and made satisfaction; and that without this expiation, satisfaction, and propitiatio...

Click to Print Reading 6579. Verses 22, 23. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw Ephraim’s sons of the third generation: the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees. “And Joseph dwelt in Egypt,” signifies the life of the memory-knowledges of the church from the inte...

The Three States of Awakening Heaven and Hell 491. There are three states that man passes through after death before he enters either heaven or hell. The first state is the state of his exteriors, the second state the state of his interiors, and the third his state of preparation. These states man passes through in the world of spirits. (HH 491).   The exteriors are projections of the interio...

Click Here to Print Reading 566. WHAT HELL FIRE IS AND WHAT THE GNASHING OF TEETH IS. What eternal fire is, and what the gnashing of teeth is, which are mentioned in the Word in reference to those who are in hell, scarcely any one as yet has known, because the contents of the Word have been thought about only in a material way, and nothing has been known about its spiritual sense. So fire has been...

Spiritual Experiences 5163. Man, from infancy even to adult age, is in the world of spirits as to his spirit, because he is successively in different states, and is then in freedom, so that he can be reformed. Heaven and Hell 487… All these things have been said to the intent that man may examine himself and may recognize his love by his delights; and thus, so far as he can make it out from...

Arcana Coelestia 6465(2)… He who conceives of exterior and interior things as being continually more and more pure, and thus cohering by continuity, thus without distinction by formations of posterior things from prior ones, cannot apprehend otherwise than that when the external dies, the internal dies also; for he thinks that they cohere, and by reason of their coherence and continuity, whe...

Click to Print Reading 6544. Verses 12, 13. And his sons did unto him as he had commanded them; 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 his sons did unto him as he had commanded them,” signifies the ef...

This Is The Way The Logopraxis approach has been built on a single principle – that the Lord is the Word.  This is its common use or good and all else flows forth from that. This is its heart, and the lived life of the Word in its practitioners are like its lungs, breathing life into the rest of the body, willing each area to thrive and function in its own unique use. Through the exchange of...

Spiritual Literacy Skills Working to give the Word authority in our life through a conscious effort to apply its spiritual principles to the life of our mind, leads to the development of what, in Logopraxis work, are called “ spiritual literacy skills” . Spiritual literacy involves using truths from the Word as a basis for examining the quality of the thoughts and affections that make up our state...

Each Has A Unique Use That Serves The Common Good The Lord provides that everyone should love the uses suited to his peculiar disposition and that love is exalted by the hope of becoming an angel…. All uses of heaven have reference to the common use which is for the Lord’s kingdom, … since all particular and individual uses are excellent in proportion as they relate more nearly and more fully to t...

Click Here to Print Reading 551. ALL WHO ARE IN THE HELLS ARE IN EVILS AND IN FALSITIES THEREFROM DERIVED FROM THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD. All who are in the hells are in evils and in falsities therefrom, and no one there is in evils and at the same time in truths. In the world evil men for the most part have some knowledge of spiritual truths, which are the truths of the church, having be...

The Third State: The State of Instruction (HH 512-520) As we have seen, the initial stages of spiritual awakening involve two states: the state of exteriors and the state of interiors. These first two general states serve the purpose of familiarising spirits with their inner and outer levels of consciousness. The intention behind this is to encourage them to contemplate their thoughts and affectio...

Doctrine of Sacred Scripture 18. iii. From the spiritual sense it is that the Word is Divinely inspired, and is holy in every word. It is said in the church that the Word is holy, and this because Jehovah God spoke it; but as its holiness is not apparent from the letter alone, he who on this account once doubts its holiness, afterwards confirms his doubt when reading the Word by many things in it,...

Click to Print Reading 6521. Verses 7-9. 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, 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. And there went up with him both chariots...

A short guided meditation to support the work of conscious practice. Psalm 113: Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord! Blessed be the name of the Lord. From this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its going down. The Lord’s name is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our G...

The Second Class of Interiors in which the Lord is Acknowledged Heavenly states of life are grounded in the loves of heaven and hence form the basis for an acknowledgement of the Lord. This acknowledgement is not something of the lips alone but is expressed from the very life and so constitutes genuine worship of the Lord.  Good is the focus in these states where one lives according to one’s consc...

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...