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Arcana Coelestia
1749-1756 /before judgement of 1757
EFaith is the affection of truth which arise from willing the truth because it is true.xpositional, Genesis and a littel bit of exodus
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| New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrines |
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de Nova Hierosolyma et ejus Doctrina CaelestiDate: 1758 (one volume) post LJ
Category: Doctrinal Type |
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| English: Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture |
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Date: 1763
Category: Doctrinal Topic
Organization: Thesis
Content
Scriptural Confirmation
HD references
Illustrations
Personal accounts |
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Date: 1758 (after Last Judgement)
Category: Doctrinal Topic (Afterlife) |
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| English: Divine Love and Wisdom |
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Date: 1763
Category: Doctrinal Topic (Lord-man-creation) |
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| English: Divine Providence |
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Date: 1764
Category: Doctrinal (DP) |
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| How do you know whether your affections are genuine? |
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By examining your delights. Are these good or bad?
By examining the end. Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? |
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| How do you know whether your affections are genuine? |
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By examining your delights. Are these good or bad?
By examining the end. Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? |
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| What quality makes someone a brother? |
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| Similar goods, or similar loves |
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| What are two things that signify the Proprium? |
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| What are two things that signify the Proprium? |
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| In the internal sense, what is the difference between Leah, who is weak eyed, and Rachel, who is beautiful? |
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Leah is the affection for exterior truth
Rachel is the affection for interior truth |
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| What do you have to have to have thinking? |
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| You must have willing or affection |
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| What kind of ideas do the children of Rachel represent? |
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| Goods sprung from the interior affection for truth |
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| What does Reuben represent? |
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Sight,
Faith in the Understanding,
Foresight
Knowledge of Truth |
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| List two related meanings for Simeon? |
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Providence
Hearing
Obedience
Truth in the Will |
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| List two related meanings for Simeon? |
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Providence
Hearing
Obedience
Truth in the Will |
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| List two related meanings for Levi? |
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Charity
Love and Mercy
Affection for Truth |
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| Two related meanings for Judah? |
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The Lord
The Word
The Celestial Kingdom
Celestial form of good or love |
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| According to the Internal sense, do these brothers ascend or descend? |
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| The good in people, and those who practice good |
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| Who do evil people consider to be the neighbor, besides themselves? |
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| People who do good to them and for them |
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| What is Charity (besides an internal affection) according NJHD 104? |
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| Charity is doing good without thought of recompense |
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| Faith is what kind of affection for truth? |
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| Faith is the affection of truth which arise from willing the truth because it is true. |
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| What kind of affection for truth is “Faith by persuasion”? |
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| Faith for Reputation, Honor and Gain (RHG) |
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| Pick any two disciples and say what qualities they represent |
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Peter is faith
John is goods of charity
James is charity
The 12 represent the church in respect to all things of faith and charity |
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| What can be the only source of Doctrine? What is the only thing that can confirm it? |
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The Word is the only source of Doctrine
You can confirm it from reading the Word |
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| What are the “Face and Hands” in the Word? |
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Truths that are right in the letter of the Word
Example the “Thou Shalt Nots” in the commandments |
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| What are the “Face and Hands” in the Word? |
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Truths that are right in the letter of the Word
Example the “Thou Shalt Nots” in the commandments |
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| For whom is the natural sense of the Word? The Spiritual? The Celestial? |
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Natural is for Men on earth
Spiritual is for spiritual angels
Celestial is for celestial angels |
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| The Word is the Word, the truth, the spirit, and life, according to a qualifying condition, The church, is the church according to this same qualifying condition. A person is conjoined to the Lord, by this same qualifying condition. What is it? |
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The Word is the Word according to the way it is understood
According to the understanding of the Word the church is the church…etc…for all. |
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| To what do the “Double Expressions” in the Word refer? |
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| They refer to good and truth, or in the bad sense evil and falsity |
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| What is different about the vowels used by angels in the celestial heaven? |
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| They are rounder and fuller. They do not use the harsh vowels |
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| What must be added to heresy for it to become harmful? |
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If we confirm them and live by them
If it leads to an evil life |
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| List two differences between the Celestial and the Spiritual: |
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Celestial angels are more interior or higher, they hear truth and imediatley start willing and doing it
Spiritual angels are lower and more exterior, and truths enter their understanding first and then they will and do it |
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| Describe the difference between continuous and discreet degrees? |
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Discreet degrees are like Earth and Heaven, no matter how high you go in earth. You won’t reach heaven.
Continuous is like a sliding scale, Cold to Hot |
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| What happens when a higher angel descends to a lower heaven? |
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| Their wisdom is lost, and they do not remember where they are because they are opened up to a higher degree and they do not understand the lower degree that the lower angels live by. |
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| What is the main natural comparison between the will and the intellect? |
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Will = heart
Intellect = lungs |
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| Name one thing that the will would not have if deprived of intellect? |
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| The ability to sense or produce actions |
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| Name one thing that the will would not have if deprived of intellect? |
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| The ability to sense or produce actions |
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| Affection for knowing, affection for truth, affection for perception, affection for understanding, and affection for seeing truth are all steps towards the creation of what? |
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| Steps towards making the intellect. The will creates the intellect. |
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| From the reading which part of you is really you? |
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The will. What you love. What you love
Your ruling love |
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| Why is important that it appears as though our affection, thoughts, actions and speech, come solely from our selves? What does this appearance allow? |
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| Because if we believed everything came from the Lord then we would lose our faculties of liberty and rationality which are our two attributes that separate us from the beasts. |
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| What would happen to our delight if we could see the future? How cool would that be? |
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Our delight would disappear, we would have no life left because there would be no hope or anticipation for any events
It would be soooo not cool |
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| Under what circumstances can a person see Divine Providence? |
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From behind. After the fact
From a spiritual state |
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| Why is important for our salvation, that we bring our external mind into order? |
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| Because everything external has a connection to what is internal and by bringing the external into order, one also brings the internal into order. |
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| If the intellect rises into wisdom, and the will does not become married to it, what happens to the intellect then? |
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It is brought back down and enslaved by the lower will
The intellect comes back down and defiles the will |
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| Under what natural circumstances does a persons thought most accurately reflect his will? |
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| When he is by himself, in private |
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| If the intellect rises into wisdom, and the will does not become married to it, what happens to the intellect then? |
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It is brought back down and enslaved by the lower will
The intellect comes back down and defiles the will |
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| Under what natural circumstances does a persons thought most accurately reflect his will? |
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| When he is by himself, in private |
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| Under what circumstances are freedom and rationality taken away from a person? |
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You can’t take them away from a person
But, if you deny these things, after death they are taken away. Therefore you live in the “freedom” of hell and the insanity of hell. |
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| From the reading, how do you know if you have good motives? |
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If you are refraining from evils.
Even you cannot perceive if you are doing useful things for the sake of yourself or for others, you can still know if you think something is evil. And if you avoid doing something because it’s evil and you believe it’s a sin. Then the services you do, you know are useful. |
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Internal sense of:
Jacob –
Laban –
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Rachel – |
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the natural mind
good from a common stock
affection external truths
affection for internal truths |
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| The first four children of Jacob |
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Reuben – faith in the intellect, and seeing
Simeon – hearing and obeying faith and the will
Levi – charity, love and mercy
Judah – “confess”; he represents is the Lord, Celestial things, or the Word, or the Divinity of Love |
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External people think that the neighbor is everyone, but that is indiscriminate charity (bad)
For internal people the neighbor is good, or good in everyone which is discriminate charity (good)
Lord
Lord’s Kingdom
Church
Country
Society
Other dudes
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Charity is doing good without thought of recompense “I want to help people”
Motives to do charity
Good for good sake
Want for Heaven
Fear of punishment
“Power in Ultimate’s” it matters what you actually do, not what you think or intend |
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Faith is truth, and its affection for truth “I know how to help people”
Affection for truth is willingness to change |
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Believing and loving for the sake of Reputation, Honor and Gain.
This is where you start, but you must move on. |
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| Doctrine vs. letter of the Word vs. sense of the letter of the Word |
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Letter – the is ink and pulp, the document without understanding
Doctrine – what people think it says
Sense of the Letter –
The Word is unintelligible without Doctrine, but you must take Doctrine from the word. |
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| Conjunction of people to angels and the Lord through the Word |
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It comes down from the Lord, through the angels, to us.
The Lord is always present with us when we read the Word.
We are conjoined to heaven, the Lord, and angels through the Word so far as we understand the truth
The Word descends in successive order from the Lord, but at the same time it is simultaneous because all the senses are contained in the Word.
Ink and pulp
Literal sense
Natural
Spiritual
Celestial
Radiant belt 2
Radiant belt 1 |
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| Word vs. understanding of the Word |
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| The Word is not the Word unless we understand it |
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Good and truth
Love and Wisdom
Feminine and Masculine
Affection and thought
Charity and Faith
Will and Intellect
Evil and Falsity
Celestial and Spiritual
Substance and form
…you know the rest… |
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Taking truths out of context
When you let the literal sense confuse the internal sense
When the external sense takes precedence over the internal
Heresies are bad when they lead to an evil life.
Examine yourself to see if they are leading you to an evil life. |
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| Kingdoms and heavens and societies in heaven |
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1 Heaven
2 Celestial, Spiritual
3 Celestial, Spiritual, Natural
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Celestial – No Clothes
Spiritual – Shining White Robes
Natural – Many Vibrant Colors
Garments correspond to intelligence and Divine Truth |
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They are magnificent
Celestial – dwell for the most part in elevated places that look like mountains of soil
Spiritual – Palaces, Mansions, Temples live on hills
Natural – live in houses on ledges of stone, rocks hills and mountains
Interior things correspond to higher things
lower to natural things
The Lord gives houses to us as a gift, they are not built like in life
House corresponds to their goods
The particular things in their homes correspond to the particular things that make up their goods, the things outside are the truths derived from those.
(Goods from the Lord just so you remember that) |
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| “Real Appearance” The way the area around you changes in heaven according to our loves |
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Distance in heaven is determined by how similar your loves are to the other persons.
Space and time are different:
They are changes of state and interiors
Change of place is nothing more then change of state
When you approach a person you are in similar states, when you leave you are in different states.
Space in heaven = love
Time in heaven = wisdom |
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| The will and intellect as they relate to heart and lungs |
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Will = Heart
Intellect = Lungs
The Heart forms the lungs and pumps the blood so that the lungs can be alive, but the lungs purify the heart so that they can both exist. The heart feeds itself. The lungs can’t. Our will can exist without truth |
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| How the intellect is used |
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The intellect purifies the will
Love enters the intellect = first affection for truth |
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The will raises the intellect, and then, the will can “marry itself” to the intellect, or raise itself to that level.
You learn new truths, and the intellect becomes better. When you’ve raised your intellect, you can raise the will by shunning evils and living by the your new truths, so that your will and intellect are now on a higher level and you can start again… WOOOO! |
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