Swedenborg Sampler

步骤 1: Swedenborg Sampler Introduction

步骤 2: Part 1: True Christian Religion

步骤 3: What is God's love like?

步骤 4: Why doesn't God save everyone?

步骤 5: Why do we need the Lord?

步骤 6: The power He can give us

步骤 7: Fatal errors in traditional Christian doctrine

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

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

步骤 10: The Word's deeper meaning

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

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

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

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

步骤 15: How do we acquire faith?

步骤 16: How much do we have to know?

步骤 17: What is charity?

步骤 18: What is charity? (continued)

步骤 19: First remove the beam from your own eye

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

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

步骤 22: Our freedom exists from our spirit

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

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

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

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

步骤 27: Seeing good and evil within our own lives

步骤 28: What is real repentance?

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

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

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

步骤 32: What is temptation?

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

步骤 34: There is a current drawing all toward heaven

步骤 35: Part 2: Arcana Coelestia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 43: Why Christianity has been split into conflicting groups

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 49: The essential importance of self‑compulsion

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

步骤 51: Prayer regarded in itself is talking with God

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

步骤 53: Feeling terrible can lead to wisdom

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

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

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

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

步骤 58: Peace has in it confidence in the Lord

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

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

步骤 61: Stages of human development

步骤 62: Part 3: Divine Love and Wisdom

步骤 63: Love is the life of a person

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 69: What distinguishes humans from animals?

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

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

步骤 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

步骤 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 82: Part 4: Divine Providence

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

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

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

步骤 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].

步骤 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.

步骤 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.

步骤 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.

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

步骤 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.

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 97: What is fortune or luck?

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

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

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

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

步骤 102: No one is born to fry

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

步骤 104: Part 5: Conjugial Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 124: Part 6: Heaven and Hell

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

步骤 126: The Lord loves variety

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

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

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

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

步骤 131: Life in heaven does not follow a clock

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 137: What is heavenly joy like?

步骤 138: What happens to children who die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 145: How big is heaven?

步骤 146: How big is heaven? (continued)

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

步骤 148: We are spirits even now

步骤 149: We are spirits even now (continued)

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

步骤 151: Intention makes the person

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

步骤 160: Determined evil can be controlled only by punishments

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

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

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