Logopraxis

Heaven and Hell (Dole) 89. First, I need to state what correspondence is. The whole natural world is responsive to the spiritual world — the natural world not just in general, but in detail. So whatever arises in the natural world out of the spiritual one is called “something that corresponds.” It needs to be realized that the natural world arises from and is sustained in being by the...

Heaven and Hell 276. What innocence is and its nature, few in the world know, and those who are in evil know nothing at all about it. It is, indeed, visible to the eyes, as seen in the face, speech and movements, particularly of little children. Yet it is not known what innocence is, and still less that it is that in which heaven is stored up in man.  Arcana Ceolestia 7210… in the spiritual ...

The Word is what opens the spiritual mind/ sense of being Apocalypse Explained (Whitehead) 790 {3-4}. Every man has two minds, one natural and the other spiritual; and as it is the mind that wills and thinks, every man has also natural will and thought and spiritual will and thought. The natural mind wills and thinks like a man in the world, and the spiritual mind wills and thinks like an angel in...

AC 561. To explain what a remnant is: It is not just the good and true things that we learn out of the Lord’s Word from the time we are small and that become stamped on our memory. It is also all the states that rise out of those things, such as a state of innocence from babyhood, a state of love for our parents, siblings, teachers, and friends, a state of charity toward our neighbor and com...

Excerpts from The Logopraxis Workbook… The Structure of a Logopraxis Life Group Meeting A Logopraxis meeting is minimalist in its form, offering a basic structure that consists of three rounds that are marked by some form of contemplative exercise. This structure serves as a framework for the practise of spiritual literacy skills. A brief description of each of the rounds follows. In Round O...

Innocence is a willingness to be led by the Lord Heaven and Hell (Dole) 280. Since innocence is being led by the Lord and not by ourselves, all the people who are in heaven are in innocence, since all the people who are there love to be led by the Lord. They know that to be led by oneself is to be led by one’s self-centeredness, and self-centeredness is loving oneself. People who are in love...

3927. And Rachel said, With the wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. That this signifies in the supreme sense own power; in the internal sense, temptation in which there is victory; and in the external sense, resistance by the natural man, is evident from the signification of the “wrestlings of God” and of “wrestling,” as being temptations; for temptations are no...

Arcana Coelestia 3218. When angels are stirred by affections and at the same time are discussing these, such things manifest themselves among spirits in the lower sphere as representative types of animals. When the discussion concerns good affections, beautiful, gentle, and useful animals emerge such as those used in sacrifices in the Divine representative worship within the Jewish Church — such a...

Divine Truth versus our finite understanding of truth True Christian Religion 350. [a] The truths of faith can be multiplied to infinity. This is clear from the wisdom of the angels of heaven, which grows forever. In fact, the angels say that there is never an end to wisdom. Wisdom has no other source except divine truths that have been analytically divided into forms by means of light flowing in...

AC 7977. With those who are of the spiritual church all good is acquired by means of truth , because without the truth which is of faith they do not know what spiritual truth is, nor what spiritual good is. They are indeed capable of knowing civil truth, also moral truth, and their goods, because they are concordant with things which are in the world, whence also they have a perception of these tr...

Arcana Coelestia 3394[2]  Settling  or dwelling means existing and living, so it means a state, and many passages in the Word clarify this. In David, for instance: I will dwell in Jehovah’s house  to a great length of days. ( Psalms 23:6 ) One thing have I asked of Jehovah; this I will seek:  May I dwell in Jehovah’s house  all the days of m...

Arcana Coelestia 7914… the good of innocence, which is the good of love to the Lord, is not received by the man of the spiritual church unless he compels himself; because it can with difficulty be believed by him that the Lord is the only God, and also that His Human is Divine; and therefore as he is not in faith, neither can be in love to Him, consequently not in the good of innocence, unle...

Arcana Coelestia 7914. ‘Draw out’ means that they should compel themselves. This is clear from the meaning of ‘drawing out’, when used in reference to the good of innocence which those belonging to the spiritual Church are to receive, as compelling themselves. The good of innocence, which is the good of love to the Lord, is not received by one who belongs to the spiritual C...

And I will pass through the land of Egypt in that night, and I will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man and even unto beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments; I am Jehovah.  Exodus 12:12 Arcana Coelestia 7873 And on all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments. That this signifies their falsities, which are to be damned, is evident from the signification of “gods,”...

And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover; no son of an alien shall eat of it. And every man’s servant that is bought with silver, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. A lodger and a hireling shall not eat of it. In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring out of the flesh abroad from the house; and ye shall not break a bone thereof. Al...

And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover; no son of an alien shall eat of it. And every man’s servant that is bought with silver, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. A lodger and a hireling shall not eat of it. In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring out of the flesh abroad from the house; and ye shall not break a bone thereof. Al...

Transcript So it’s about the liberation of the mind from the conclusions that the love of self and the love of the world have drawn from the appearance of the senses. Like you’ll see, whenever we engage in trying to control the process or look to rationalise things so that we don’t have to face what’s really arising within and those sorts of patterns of thought and what hav...

Arcana Coelestia 2661. The Lord did not come into the world to save the celestial, but the spiritual.  On Freedom The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine 148: All freedom belongs to the love or affection; for what a man loves, he does freely,  Arcana Coelestia 2870 ,  3158 ,  8987 ,  8990 ,  9585 ,  9591 . Since freedombelongs to the love, it is the life of every one,  Arcana Coelestia 2873 ....

Divine Love and Widsom 307. ALL USES WHICH ARE THE ENDS OF CREATION ARE IN FORMS, AND THEY TAKE FORMS FROM SUCH SUBSTANCES AND MATTERS AS ARE ON THE EARTH All the things treated of hitherto, such as the Sun, atmospheres and earths, are simply means to the ends. The ends of creation are those things which are produced by the Lord as a Sun through the atmospheres, out of the earth, and these ends ar...

And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh about to sit upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the house of the pit, and all the firstborn of beast. And Pharaoh rose up in that night, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; because there was not a hou...

Transcript: So the group task was to practice two-way attention and to listen to what is arising within as we listen to what is coming from without. And it’s more about, what are the thoughts and affectional states that are arising as I listen, and giving attention to what’s arising as primary, rather than to what’s being said, the words that are being spoken – the person w...

Conjugial Love 132(5,6)… man is man from this, that man is able to will good and to understand truth wholly as if from oneself, and still to know and to believe that this knowing and believing are from God. For just as man knows and believes this, God establishes His Own image in man. It would be otherwise if man would believe that one’s knowing and believing were from oneself and not from G...

Arcana Coelestia 7902. Innocence consists in acknowledging that in oneself there is nothing but evil, and that all good is from the Lord; and also in believing that man does not know or perceive anything from himself, but from the Lord, thus also the truth which is of faith. When man is in this state, then falsity can be removed from him, and truth can be instilled by the Lord. This state is what...

CLICK TO PRINT READING CLICK TO GO TO COMMENTS 7993 Verses 43-49. And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover; no son of an alien shall eat of it. And every man’s servant that is bought with silver, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. A lodger and a hireling shall not eat of it. In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring out of th...

And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw ye forth, and take you an animal of the flock according to your families, and kill ye the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in, the blood that is in the basin, and ye shall touch the lintel and the two posts with the blood that is in the basin; and no one of you shall go out of the door of his house until t...