Swedenborg Sampler

Чекор 1: Swedenborg Sampler Introduction

Чекор 2: Part 1: True Christian Religion

Чекор 3: What is God's love like?

Чекор 4: Why doesn't God save everyone?

Чекор 5: Why do we need the Lord?

Чекор 6: The power He can give us

Чекор 7: Fatal errors in traditional Christian doctrine

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

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

Чекор 10: The Word's deeper meaning

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

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

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

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

Чекор 15: How do we acquire faith?

Чекор 16: How much do we have to know?

Чекор 17: What is charity?

Чекор 18: What is charity? (continued)

Чекор 19: First remove the beam from your own eye

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

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

Чекор 22: Our freedom exists from our spirit

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

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

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

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

Чекор 27: Seeing good and evil within our own lives

Чекор 28: What is real repentance?

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

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

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

Чекор 32: What is temptation?

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

Чекор 34: There is a current drawing all toward heaven

Чекор 35: Part 2: Arcana Coelestia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 43: Why Christianity has been split into conflicting groups

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 49: The essential importance of self‑compulsion

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

Чекор 51: Prayer regarded in itself is talking with God

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

Чекор 53: Feeling terrible can lead to wisdom

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

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

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

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

Чекор 58: Peace has in it confidence in the Lord

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

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

Чекор 61: Stages of human development

Чекор 62: Part 3: Divine Love and Wisdom

Чекор 63: Love is the life of a person

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 69: What distinguishes humans from animals?

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

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

Чекор 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

Чекор 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 82: Part 4: Divine Providence

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

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

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

Чекор 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].

Чекор 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.

Чекор 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.

Чекор 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.

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

Чекор 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 97: What is fortune or luck?

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

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

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

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

Чекор 102: No one is born to fry

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

Чекор 104: Part 5: Conjugial Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 124: Part 6: Heaven and Hell

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

Чекор 126: The Lord loves variety

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

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

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

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

Чекор 131: Life in heaven does not follow a clock

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 137: What is heavenly joy like?

Чекор 138: What happens to children who die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 145: How big is heaven?

Чекор 146: How big is heaven? (continued)

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

Чекор 148: We are spirits even now

Чекор 149: We are spirits even now (continued)

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

Чекор 151: Intention makes the person

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Чекор 160: Determined evil can be controlled only by punishments

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

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

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