Swedenborg Sampler

Шаг 1: Swedenborg Sampler Introduction

Шаг 2: Part 1: True Christian Religion

Шаг 3: What is God's love like?

Шаг 4: Why doesn't God save everyone?

Шаг 5: Why do we need the Lord?

Шаг 6: The power He can give us

Шаг 7: Fatal errors in traditional Christian doctrine

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

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

Шаг 10: The Word's deeper meaning

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

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

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

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

Шаг 15: How do we acquire faith?

Шаг 16: How much do we have to know?

Шаг 17: What is charity?

Шаг 18: What is charity? (continued)

Шаг 19: First remove the beam from your own eye

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

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

Шаг 22: Our freedom exists from our spirit

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

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

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

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

Шаг 27: Seeing good and evil within our own lives

Шаг 28: What is real repentance?

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

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

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

Шаг 32: What is temptation?

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

Шаг 34: There is a current drawing all toward heaven

Шаг 35: Part 2: Arcana Coelestia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 43: Why Christianity has been split into conflicting groups

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 49: The essential importance of self‑compulsion

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

Шаг 51: Prayer regarded in itself is talking with God

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

Шаг 53: Feeling terrible can lead to wisdom

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

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

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

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

Шаг 58: Peace has in it confidence in the Lord

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

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

Шаг 61: Stages of human development

Шаг 62: Part 3: Divine Love and Wisdom

Шаг 63: Love is the life of a person

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 69: What distinguishes humans from animals?

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

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

Шаг 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

Шаг 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 82: Part 4: Divine Providence

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

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

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

Шаг 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].

Шаг 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.

Шаг 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.

Шаг 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.

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

Шаг 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 97: What is fortune or luck?

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

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

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

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

Шаг 102: No one is born to fry

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

Шаг 104: Part 5: Conjugial Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 124: Part 6: Heaven and Hell

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

Шаг 126: The Lord loves variety

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

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

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

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

Шаг 131: Life in heaven does not follow a clock

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 137: What is heavenly joy like?

Шаг 138: What happens to children who die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 145: How big is heaven?

Шаг 146: How big is heaven? (continued)

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

Шаг 148: We are spirits even now

Шаг 149: We are spirits even now (continued)

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

Шаг 151: Intention makes the person

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Шаг 160: Determined evil can be controlled only by punishments

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

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

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