Swedenborg Sampler

ნაბიჯი 1: Swedenborg Sampler Introduction

ნაბიჯი 2: Part 1: True Christian Religion

ნაბიჯი 3: What is God's love like?

ნაბიჯი 4: Why doesn't God save everyone?

ნაბიჯი 5: Why do we need the Lord?

ნაბიჯი 6: The power He can give us

ნაბიჯი 7: Fatal errors in traditional Christian doctrine

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

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

ნაბიჯი 10: The Word's deeper meaning

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 15: How do we acquire faith?

ნაბიჯი 16: How much do we have to know?

ნაბიჯი 17: What is charity?

ნაბიჯი 18: What is charity? (continued)

ნაბიჯი 19: First remove the beam from your own eye

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

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

ნაბიჯი 22: Our freedom exists from our spirit

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 27: Seeing good and evil within our own lives

ნაბიჯი 28: What is real repentance?

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 32: What is temptation?

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

ნაბიჯი 34: There is a current drawing all toward heaven

ნაბიჯი 35: Part 2: Arcana Coelestia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 43: Why Christianity has been split into conflicting groups

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 49: The essential importance of self‑compulsion

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

ნაბიჯი 51: Prayer regarded in itself is talking with God

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

ნაბიჯი 53: Feeling terrible can lead to wisdom

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 58: Peace has in it confidence in the Lord

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

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

ნაბიჯი 61: Stages of human development

ნაბიჯი 62: Part 3: Divine Love and Wisdom

ნაბიჯი 63: Love is the life of a person

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 69: What distinguishes humans from animals?

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

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

ნაბიჯი 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

ნაბიჯი 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 82: Part 4: Divine Providence

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 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].

ნაბიჯი 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.

ნაბიჯი 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.

ნაბიჯი 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.

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

ნაბიჯი 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.

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 97: What is fortune or luck?

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 102: No one is born to fry

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

ნაბიჯი 104: Part 5: Conjugial Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 124: Part 6: Heaven and Hell

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

ნაბიჯი 126: The Lord loves variety

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 131: Life in heaven does not follow a clock

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 137: What is heavenly joy like?

ნაბიჯი 138: What happens to children who die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 145: How big is heaven?

ნაბიჯი 146: How big is heaven? (continued)

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

ნაბიჯი 148: We are spirits even now

ნაბიჯი 149: We are spirits even now (continued)

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

ნაბიჯი 151: Intention makes the person

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ნაბიჯი 160: Determined evil can be controlled only by punishments

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

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

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