Swedenborg Sampler

Стъпка 1: Swedenborg Sampler Introduction

Стъпка 2: Part 1: True Christian Religion

Стъпка 3: What is God's love like?

Стъпка 4: Why doesn't God save everyone?

Стъпка 5: Why do we need the Lord?

Стъпка 6: The power He can give us

Стъпка 7: Fatal errors in traditional Christian doctrine

Стъпка 8: Why is a notion of God such a remote part of Western culture?

Стъпка 9: What do people see when they look at the Word of God?

Стъпка 10: The Word's deeper meaning

Стъпка 11: The Word's deeper meaning (continued)

Стъпка 12: Levels of meaning in the Ten Commandments (from the section on "You shall not steal")

Стъпка 13: Levels of meaning in the Ten Commandments (from the section on "You shall not steal") (continued)

Стъпка 14: Levels of meaning in the Ten Commandments (from the section on "You shall not steal") (continued)

Стъпка 15: How do we acquire faith?

Стъпка 16: How much do we have to know?

Стъпка 17: What is charity?

Стъпка 18: What is charity? (continued)

Стъпка 19: First remove the beam from your own eye

Стъпка 20: True expressions of charity are God working through us

Стъпка 21: Doesn't everyone believe that people have freedom of choice in spiritual things?

Стъпка 22: Our freedom exists from our spirit

Стъпка 23: What seems like freedom isn't necessarily so

Стъпка 24: Repentance is the first thing of the church with a person

Стъпка 25: Repentance is not just a matter of saying the right words

Стъпка 26: A person is not born evil, but is born with inclinations to love things that are evil

Стъпка 27: Seeing good and evil within our own lives

Стъпка 28: What is real repentance?

Стъпка 29: It's easier to see sin in another than in oneself

Стъпка 30: Two advancing states of mind for those on the path to heaven

Стъпка 31: The Lord brings about spiritual rebirth with our cooperation

Стъпка 32: What is temptation?

Стъпка 33: Why do some people think that God doesn't care what choices we make in our daily life?

Стъпка 34: There is a current drawing all toward heaven

Стъпка 35: Part 2: Arcana Coelestia

Стъпка 36: People don't see the Lord's presence in the Word

Стъпка 37: People don't see the Lord's presence in the Word (continued)

Стъпка 38: The state of mind of a person before his regeneration

Стъпка 39: The evil of every church that ever was and is. . . .

Стъпка 40: The evil of every church that ever was and is. . . . (continued)

Стъпка 41: Seeing the evil in others versus seeing the good in them

Стъпка 42: How the love of self blinds a person to reality

Стъпка 43: Why Christianity has been split into conflicting groups

Стъпка 44: What motivates a person's efforts in difficult times?

Стъпка 45: Without charity in our hearts we cannot live together as brethren

Стъпка 46: The Lord never compels anyone because it doesn't work; each person needs to compel himself

Стъпка 47: The quality of a person who knows the truth but doesn't care about what is good

Стъпка 48: True wisdom of life is gentle and yet also conquers all

Стъпка 49: The essential importance of self‑compulsion

Стъпка 50: The Lord's willingness to adapt to where a person is

Стъпка 51: Prayer regarded in itself is talking with God

Стъпка 52: An affirmative or negative approach to God's Word

Стъпка 53: Feeling terrible can lead to wisdom

Стъпка 54: The Lord cares for the very tiniest details of our lives

Стъпка 55: If a person believed as the case really is. . .he could not become guilty of any evil

Стъпка 56: If a person believed as the case really is. . .he could not become guilty of any evil (continued)

Стъпка 57: The Lord does not allow the evil which accompanies doubt and temptation unless some good can come of it

Стъпка 58: Peace has in it confidence in the Lord

Стъпка 59: Care for the morrow and trusting in the Lord

Стъпка 60: The Lord looks after the details as well as the big picture

Стъпка 61: Stages of human development

Стъпка 62: Part 3: Divine Love and Wisdom

Стъпка 63: Love is the life of a person

Стъпка 64: Feeling the joy of another as joy in oneself, that is loving

Стъпка 65: If a person thinks from ideas of space and time, he can never understand God or anything spiritual

Стъпка 66: Without a knowledge of discrete degrees [spiritual levels] nothing of cause can be known

Стъпка 67: There are three degrees of spiritual life potential in each person

Стъпка 68: There are three degrees of spiritual life potential in each person (continued)

Стъпка 69: What distinguishes humans from animals?

Стъпка 70: In the human mind the will and understanding work together, but the will leads

Стъпка 71: The quality life of a person who is natural but with whom the spiritual degree of his mind is opened

Стъпка 72: The quality of life of a person who is natural and in whom the spiritual degree of his mind is not opened, yet not closed

Стъпка 73: The quality of life of a person life who is natural and in whom the spiritual degree of his mind is not entirely closed.

Стъпка 74: A bad person as well as a good one who has both freedom and rationality

Стъпка 75: In a state of evil, goodness seems like slavery and evil like freedom

Стъпка 76: True love has use for an end and intends it

Стъпка 77: All things created by the Lord are uses -- Uses for sustaining the body

Стъпка 78: All things created by the Lord are uses -- Uses for perfecting the rational

Стъпка 79: All things created by the Lord are uses -- Uses for receiving the spiritual from the Lord

Стъпка 80: Reasons why it is excusable for some people to see nature as a source of life

Стъпка 81: Love of self and the world were by creation heavenly loves

Стъпка 82: Part 4: Divine Providence

Стъпка 83: A person can see the Lord's hand in all of creation if he wishes

Стъпка 84: The Divine Providence of the Lord has as its goal a heaven from the human race

Стъпка 85: The more someone recognizes what he gets from the Lord, the more free he is

Стъпка 86: It is a law of the Divine Providence that people should act from freedom according to reason [that is, according their best understanding of what is true].

Стъпка 87: It is a law of the Divine Providence that a person should, apparently by their own power, remove evil [thoughts and deeds] as sins in the external person.

Стъпка 88: It is a law of the Divine Providence that a person should not be compelled by external means to think and will, and therefore to believe and love, the things of religion, but should persuade and at times compel himself to do so.

Стъпка 89: It is a law of the Divine Providence that a person should be led and taught by the Lord from heaven by means of Word, and doctrine and preaching from the Word, and this to all appearance as of himself.

Стъпка 90: The Word taught by means of people, but still directly by the Lord

Стъпка 91: It is a law of the Divine Providence that a person should not perceive and feel anything of the operation of the Divine Providence, but still that he should know and acknowledge it.

Стъпка 92: Why doesn't the Lord allow us to gain a specific knowledge of future events?

Стъпка 93: Why doesn't the Lord allow us to gain a specific knowledge of future events? (continued)

Стъпка 94: How would we tend to behave if we were able to clearly see the direction the Lord is leading us?

Стъпка 95: God is the master architect of our eternal lives

Стъпка 96: If therefore, you wish to be led by the Divine Providence. . . .

Стъпка 97: What is fortune or luck?

Стъпка 98: Images of the Divine Providence operating in our lives

Стъпка 99: The Lord never wills that an evil [event] should happen, but He does permit it to occur

Стъпка 100: Reasons why people doubt or deny that there is such a thing as the Divine Providence

Стъпка 101: Evil [loves] cannot be removed unless they appear

Стъпка 102: No one is born to fry

Стъпка 103: The operation of the Divine Providence from birth to the end of life

Стъпка 104: Part 5: Conjugial Love

Стъпка 105: Very few people know the true source of joy in heaven

Стъпка 106: What happened to people who arrived in the life after death thinking that heavenly happiness comes from endless opportunities for wonderful conversations?

Стъпка 107: What happened to people who arrived at the life after death thinking that heavenly happiness comes from mere admission to heaven?

Стъпка 108: In the life after death a male is still very much a male and a female very much a female

Стъпка 109: What about the Lord's statement from the New Testament that there is no marriage after death?

Стъпка 110: What is a male angel's reaction to the opposite sex?

Стъпка 111: What happens when married partners meet after death?

Стъпка 112: Why some marriages formed on earth do not continue to eternity?

Стъпка 113: All joys and all delights are gathered within a true love of marriage

Стъпка 114: A true love of marriage requires a person to approach the Lord directly

Стъпка 115: The arguments of a polygamist (in the life after death) on why his approach to marriage is best

Стъпка 116: Contrary to some people's ideas, the husband is not the head of the wife

Стъпка 117: Love of marriage is closely related to a person's outlook on religion

Стъпка 118: The states of mind that accompany a true love of marriage

Стъпка 119: Will my marriage get better or worse as time goes by?

Стъпка 120: What happens when a relationship is a power struggle?

Стъпка 121: A temporal or non-eternal focus is contradictory to a true love of marriage

Стъпка 122: The first meeting of a future husband and wife in heaven

Стъпка 123: Spiritual intimacy is the real basis for a true love of marriage

Стъпка 124: Part 6: Heaven and Hell

Стъпка 125: Why did Swedenborg have the experiences that he did, and why was this book written?

Стъпка 126: The Lord loves variety

Стъпка 127: Everything of this world springs from and has permanent existence from the spiritual world

Стъпка 128: The Lord's presence in heaven is like the light and warmth of the sun

Стъпка 129: The Lord's presence in heaven is like the light and warmth of the sun (continued)

Стъпка 130: The ups and downs in the life of an angel

Стъпка 131: Life in heaven does not follow a clock

Стъпка 132: Life in heaven does not follow a clock (continued)

Стъпка 133: Life in heaven does not follow a clock (continued)

Стъпка 134: In heaven when you want to be somewhere, distance doesn't get in the way

Стъпка 135: In heaven when you want to be somewhere, distance doesn't get in the way (continued)

Стъпка 136: What is the innocence of a wise person?

Стъпка 137: What is heavenly joy like?

Стъпка 138: What happens to children who die?

Стъпка 139: What happens to children who die? (continued)

Стъпка 140: Children in heaven need to learn how to resist the pressure to follow others

Стъпка 141: The Lord doesn't expect us to choose a poor and rough life to earn heaven

Стъпка 142: The Lord doesn't expect us to choose a poor and rough life to earn heaven (continued)

Стъпка 143: What happens after death to someone who intentionally chose a deprived life to earn a heavenly reward?

Стъпка 144: Being poor can lead one away from heaven just as much as being rich

Стъпка 145: How big is heaven?

Стъпка 146: How big is heaven? (continued)

Стъпка 147: Angels live at the peak of youthful life forever

Стъпка 148: We are spirits even now

Стъпка 149: We are spirits even now (continued)

Стъпка 150: The end of natural life is but a passing

Стъпка 151: Intention makes the person

Стъпка 152: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death?

Стъпка 153: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death? (continued)

Стъпка 154: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death? (continued)

Стъпка 155: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death? (continued)

Стъпка 156: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death? (continued)

Стъпка 157: What happens to a person when he wakes up in the life after death? (continued)

Стъпка 158: It is not so difficult to lead the life that leads to heaven

Стъпка 159: How is there a balance between the power of heaven and that of hell?

Стъпка 160: Determined evil can be controlled only by punishments

Стъпка 161: How does anyone end up in hell if the Lord sends no one there?

Стъпка 162: What is it like to arrive in a community in hell?

Стъпка 163: How does the equilibrium between heaven and hell affect our lives?