tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57462761368255981442024-03-12T19:23:02.149-07:00Divine Providence ProverbsA simplification of citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg interpreting sentences into proverbs.Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-88107513124990489652015-06-18T12:18:00.000-07:002015-06-18T12:18:59.292-07:00Faith that Moves Mountains<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Faith that Moves
Mountains”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of us in a group were discussing a challenge in figuring out
how to use some technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a
question about additional hookups being needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So the group decided against trying to “force the issue” and just skip
the project elements requiring additional hookups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, a week later I figured out (or, as I
would say in faith that the Lord Provided) a simpler possible solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I advocated for that but we as a group
voted against that new idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
concurred.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, the next morning it occurred to me that, really, this is a
“teachable moment” where I can tell something about myself and my life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This reminds me of an old joke by Steve Martin I believe, “I was
born a poor Black child.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This line
typically refers to humble begins after achieving more laudable levels of
success in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my case, from humble
beginnings I have years been a high fashion executive and learned standard
English, French, Spanish and some Japanese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I could mention computer geeky skills, music performance, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this isn’t a paper about me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith like everything else good comes from
the Lord, God, Divine Providence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll throw in some citations from <u>Regeneration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual Growth and How it Works</u> by Emanuel
Swedenborg and some Bible citations on faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><u>Regeneration</u> doesn’t seem to list the particular books and
numbers in the particular books by Swedenborg so I just list the Kindle
location numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
main theme for this paper that “came to me” was this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can trust that the Lord will make a way for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or to slice up a Scripture “</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and if I have a <b>faith</b> that can move <b>mountains</b>,...”
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1 Corinthians 13:2<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In other words, as usual in my personal experience time and time
again I could have had faith that the Lord will Provide solutions to challenges
before me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here
today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe
you—you of little <b>faith</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew
6:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Perhaps this above Scripture could refer to clothes or any other
perceived need of the faithful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
not to say that the simple solution given to me after a week of reflection
works for the group in question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
saying that as was the case in actually learning some advanced technical skills
I had read about, also a workable solution at least in my eyes I could have had
faith would arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this pattern has
accompanied me throughout my life’s journey from ignorance and poverty to
intelligence and wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe even to
wisdom above intelligence as Swedenborg would say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually I used to scoff at material wealth
as back in the <u>haute couture</u> days I was engaged with “filthy riches”
type greed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These days I can think of
good purposes for wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did anyone see
“The Sting” movie back when?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it
was about a couple “con men” (poor example here I know) who always proceeded to
get the required “whatever” in order to succeed with the con job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, me and the fashion designer, Melanie,
back in the day always had to figure out how to get whatever the business and
lifestyle required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Failure was not an
option” as is said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to learn or
successful financial negotiations had to be done in order to get whatever was
actually required for the business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those
following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such
great <b>faith</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew 8:10<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I can look back over a full lifetime and last week and see that
“great faith” is appropriate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I
like to think that the whole Black experience in America is another example I
follow and we African Americans can follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Few there are that without great faith could imagine that a Black man
would be Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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afraid?” Matthew 8:26<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m not talking about anyone else, but as for me I would not be
called to be “afraid” that somehow quite good technology capabilities and
performance would happen by hard work, practice and miracle of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said,
“your <b>faith</b> has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9:22&version=NIV"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Matthew
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By analogy perhaps, the tricky technical issues that were initially
perceived were eventually in my mind “healed” by the idea of not using extra
technical hookups but just using the provided microphone and the laptop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not saying that this solution befits the
group’s circumstances, just that this is just another example of how the Lord
works with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord may not provide
a Rolls Royce to ride to the Corporate Board Meeting, just a Bentley was
provided back in the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack
of <b>faith</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13:58&version=NIV"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Matthew 13:58</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be unloving
to apply this Bible quote to the specific group situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you’re a Black guy from Chicago and
you want to be President of the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or if you are a young civil rights activist minister with a “Dream” like
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or if
you were a humble Black guy from the Midwest, you’re going to need many
miracles so don’t hang around a bunch of people who lack mountain-moving
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here Jesus is juxtaposing faith and doubt I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, faith in Him or doubts about Who He
really is and, hence, what He can do in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my friends reminded me that I didn’t
earn my first computer or musical keyboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I learned on those given to me as I watched Japanese programming on
satellite TV when the disks were huge, HUGE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I should mention that my university education was also more miracle
than parental-funded education plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
received a “low income” grant to the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And continued studies at U. Vermont and U.
San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You
of little <b>faith</b>,” he said, “why did you doubt?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14:31&version=NIV"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Matthew
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course Jesus as God knew
everything but the question to Peter here was for Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think, as God, Jesus is asking seriously
why doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just not the logical
thing to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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online church I attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the New
Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is associated with the
writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772, Sweden).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following are some citations from one of his
many books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swedenborg (ES for
short).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was a top scientist in the age
of Enlightenment, struggled to understand the world of spirit, was a member of
Queen Ulrika Eleonora’s Royal Court, Scientific writer (in Latin), Christian
mystic recording in writing decades of spiritual experiences in Heaven teaching
true Christianity, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is also one
of the few clairvoyants with, well, what we would call today a professional
reputation and, thus, not shady or eccentric reputation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span>Spiritual Growth and How it Works </u>by Swedenborg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This volume didn’t have the paragraph numbers
and names of particular books by ES so I list the Kindle book location
numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Faith is not faith for us until it becomes spiritual, and it does
not become spiritual unless it becomes a matter of love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It becomes a matter of love when we love to
live out what is true and good--that is, to live by what we are commanded in
the word.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location 363<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our “belief” as “Swedenborgians” is that “belief” is not the
important thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fact it is
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What matters is what is
real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, what we actually put into
effect, into our life, into our actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What ES is talking about as “what we are commanded” is to love God and
one another in fact and through our actual actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this paper I’m writing about last week’s
technical challenge which didn’t seem very doable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as for me, I could have had faith that
as did happen the Lord Our Provider would come up with a way to make it
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, if I were going to be
using the technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m trying to
explain that while the group decision the previous week was to skip it, too
much hassle trying to figure out whether or not technical equipment would be
available at the venue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for me, I could
have had faith that the Lord Jesus Christ would inspire a solution to the
challenge, if it were all up to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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goodwill and our words come from faith; we develop a sense of the goodness that
comes from goodwill and a perception of the truth that is related to faith; and
we are in the Lord and in a state of peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In brief, we are reborn.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, before we are reborn,
perhaps, it would occur to me to as an act of goodwill spend days writing a Bible
Scriptures and ES citations paper explaining my faith-based thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my imagining that I can perceive the
truth that is related to an experienced consistent reality of daily miracles in
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I can be at peace knowing
that if it were my presentation, it could happen with the entire vision
regardless of the misperceived technology challenges at the venue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a quintessential Swedenborgian concept about the importance
of not imagining that any good comes from we ourselves ultimately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whom but the Lord gave us life, a good mind,
the will to do good, the ability to perceive right from wrong, etc.? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We can take action together with the Lord and by doing so,
form a partnership with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Married people or people with life partners know the value
of having a good partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And for
Swedenborg when he says marriage he doesn’t mean a couple people with a piece
of paper saying that they are married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he means a couple who are one in spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ES says that such a couple is in fact
viewed from have as only being one person.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But what if the action I take (or you take) is taken together with
partnership of the Lord God Creator of the Universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good reason to have faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, if true, one could definitely see in their
life a pattern of let’s call it “success” worthy of keeping the faith
absolutely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The more we are reborn, that is, the more the process of
regeneration is perfected in us, the less we attribute anything of goodness and
truth, or goodwill and faith, to ourselves; we attribute it all to the
Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are taught this very clearly by
the truths that we keep drinking in.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a clear Swedenborgian citation detailing how little
our human effort is valued in the mind of the reborn Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swedenborg was a SERIOUS scholar and I guess
he assumed we Christians would keep “drinking in” truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, be Bible and for Swedenborgians,
doctrine books and literature readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Just as all the elements of wisdom and love dwell within
service, all the elements of thought and desire dwell within act, and all the
elements of faith and goodwill dwell within deeds, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means all the elements that are of the
same kind; that is, they are harmonious.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here we can see how important not “belief” but service,
action and deeds are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So wisdom and
love, thought and desire, faith and goodwill are nothing unless the result in
service, action and deeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which are
also called charity, good works, at the job site doing a good job, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“People have not yet recognized that the last member of each
sequence--service, act, deed, and practice--is the composite and vessel of all
the earlier members.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location 1528<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think I just said that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I can point of one of the aspects of reading Swedenborg’s writings
that I find fascinating. I like the Christian mystic element.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the “People have not yet recognized…”
part of the sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So upon reflection
one can see that for ES he feels like he has been given a mission to reveal
things that “People have not yet recognized” regarding being a true Christian
in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cool stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, a two volume big book is called <u>True
Christianity</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“All this makes it clear that people who have love also have
faith and consequently heavenly life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location
2207<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The scholar Swedenborg wrote in his Works things like, “If
you were to sit down and think about it for an hour or two”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That citation is worthy of considerable
thought I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not bad to
restrict one’s writing to what we know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this case, writing about my reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One friend said among some of us elders, “We’re all getting older.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An old friend of mind said, “Not Elbert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He still looks like he did 40 years ago!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which reminds me, ES wrote that even old women
that go to Heaven return to the “flower of their youth” in appearance in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mentioned the youth era poverty (and
ignorance) above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My imagining that I
have Love (from the Lord) and reason to have faith (again from Him) I have to
look back a say that I have had and do have a heavenly life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still today having a salad and a dessert
seems odd to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We certainly didn’t
have such things “back in the day”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
by Grace I have enjoyed rapping in French, Spanish or Japanese after dinner
over a beverage while sketching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yea, I’ve
been lauded for a bluesy jazz performance on keyboards abroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beats working!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“From the doctrine taught by faith, anyone can see that we
cannot so much as think a good thought or will a good result or consequently do
a good deed except through the Lord’s power.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">ES, the scientist, stays focused on cause and effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Age of Enlightenment was a reaction to
the former age of Roman Catholic Church doctrinal authority in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Doctrine” for ES is a big word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often when he uses it he is referring to a
large volume of written concepts and ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ES goes into great detail also about how one first needs to have an
idea, then build up a will before doing a deed, good deed in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I think, ES would say and has written
that you and I can upon reflection see that we would need the Lord’s great help
all along the way in order to receive a good thought, build up the will to do
the good thought-out deed and to effectuate the good deed in fact by
Grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m into the Power of Positive
Thinking but ES spent a good half of his writing time delineating the whys and
wherefores of the vain, self-centered, worldly folks and their ways and
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“When we are regenerate, on the other hand, the angels are
in charge, inspiring us with all kinds of goodness and truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Location 2454<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">ES prefaced this idea with a long list of reasons for why,
in fact, anyone not well along the Path, hence the unregenerate or
pre-regenerate cannot be helped hardly at all by said angels, alas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In sum, ES wrote that they are like people
holding a mirror over their heads to reflect back the light (of Truth) and heat
(of Love) being showered down upon us from above by the Lord Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May you, the reader, accept and enjoy the Faith that Moves
Mountains that is continually offered you and me on a daily basis in our
personal lives even in these times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-79565716009270376982014-02-20T18:57:00.000-08:002014-02-20T18:57:24.454-08:00104 Types of Prayer from the Bible<h2 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0e3d4d; font-family: "Lucida Grande", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">104 Types of Biblical
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Secret prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matt 6:6</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Family prayer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Acts 10:2, 30</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Group prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Matt
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Public prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1
Cor. <st1:time hour="14" minute="14">14:14</st1:time>-17</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kneeling<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ezra 9:5</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bowing<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ex 34:8</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hands uplifted<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1 Tim. 2:8</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer against strife<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Gen
13:8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let thre be no strike, I
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be sent<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ex4:13<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>O my Lord, send, I pray thee…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer entreating the Lord<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ex
10:17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Entreat the Lord your God</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that the Lord goes among us<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ex 34:9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Lord, I pray thee, go among us</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for deliverance<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Judg
<st1:time hour="10" minute="15">10:15</st1:time><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…deliver
us only, we pray thee</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for remembrance <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Judg
16:28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…God, remember me, I pray</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that the Lord not leave us<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Num 10:31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leave
us not, I pray</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that a
fire be quenched<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Num 11:2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…when
Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to not see
your wretchedness<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Num <st1:time hour="11" minute="15">11:15</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
pray thee,…let me not see my wretchedness</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that the Lord take away serpents<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Num 21:7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pray
unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for the people<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Num
21:7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And Moses prayed for the
people</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that the Lord
comes<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Num 22:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Come now therefore, I pray thee,</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that one
might see something<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Deut
3:25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I pray thee, let me go over,
and see the good land</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for someone<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Deut
<st1:time hour="9" minute="20">9:20</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
prayed for Aaron </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be remembered<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Judg
16:28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O Lord God, remember me</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for
strength<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Judg <st1:time hour="16" minute="28">16:28</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O
Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to God for counsel<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Judg
18:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ask counsel, we pray thee, of
God</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for the
prosperous direction<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Judg 18:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God,
...whether our way…shall be prosperous</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that the
Lord look on one’s affliction<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 sam <st1:time hour="13" minute="10">1:10</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O
Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Continuing prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Sam <st1:time hour="13" minute="12">1:12</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>as she continued praying before the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer with heart
rejoicing in the Lord<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Sam 2:1<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And Hannah prayed, and said, my heart
rejoiceth in the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for people
gathered<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Sam 7:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gather all Israel
…and I will pray for you unto the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for one’s servants<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1
Sam <st1:time hour="12" minute="19">12:19</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pray for thy servants</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God’s
word be verified<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings 8:26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O God of Israel,
let thy word, …be verified</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer of supplication<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1
Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="28">8:28</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that the Lord hearken<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1
Kings 8:28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O Lord my God, to hearken</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer today<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>1
Kings 8:28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prayeth before the today</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for one’s
house<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings 8:29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to hear God<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1
Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="30">8:30</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and hear thu in heaven thy dwelling place</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for rain<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="35">8:35</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, …pray</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be taught by God<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1
Kings 8:36<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…that thou teach them the
good way</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer against pestilence, mildew, locust, caterpillars and
enemies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="37">8:37</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…prayer
and supplication (1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="38">8:38</st1:time>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer against the plague of one’s own heart<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1 Kings 8:38<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be
given accordingly<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings 8:39<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place, and forgive, and do and give to every man according to his ways.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer God knowing your heart<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings 8:39<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>whose
heart thou knowest (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the
children of men;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer concerning
a stranger<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="41">8:41</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moreover
concerning a stranger … (who) cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer hearing of
God’s strong hand<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="42">8:42</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
they shall heart of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, …when he shall come
and pray</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
does all that the stranger asks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Kings
8:43<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and
do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
maintains the cause<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="45">8:45</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that
people be forgiven<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="50">8:50</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that people be given compassion<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="50">8:50</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…and give
them compassion</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer kneeling<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="54">8:54</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He arose from before the altar of the Lord,
from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer with a
loud voice<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="55">8:55</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel
with a loud voice</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer of thanks
for God’s word<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings 8:56<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>there hath not failed one word of all his
good promise</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
not forsake us<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="57">8:57</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let him not leave us, nor forsake us</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
incline our hearts<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="8" minute="58">8:58</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That
he may incline our hearts unto him</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and God’s
eyes and heart in the church<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1Kings 9:3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the Lord said …and mine eyes and
mine heart shall be there perpetually.</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for
someone’s hand<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1 Kings
13:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the man of God besought the
Lord, and the king’s hand was restored him again, </span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to revive
someone<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Kings <st1:time hour="17" minute="22">17:22</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him
again, and he revived.</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to heal
blindness<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Kings <st1:time hour="18" minute="17">6:17</st1:time><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray
thee, open his eyes.</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer facing the
wall<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>2 Kings 20:2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then he turned his face to the wall, and
prayed unto the Lord</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be
healed<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>2 kings 20:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will heal thee</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for you
and your home<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Chronicles <st1:time hour="21" minute="17">21:17</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let
thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer on
righteousness<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles <st1:time hour="18" minute="23">6:23</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Hearken
therefore unto the supplications…[2 Chronicles <st1:time hour="18" minute="21">6:21</st1:time>]
…justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and being
taught the good way<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles <st1:time hour="18" minute="27">6:27</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…when
thou hast taught them the good way</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for the
priests and saints<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles <st1:time hour="18" minute="41">6:41</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>let
thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice
in goodness.</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer faces on
the ground<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles 7:3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>they bowed themselves with their
faces to the ground upon the pavement,</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and land
healing<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles 7:14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>my people shall humble themselves, and pray,…then will I …heal their
land</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer healing
the people<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles 30:20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and
healed the people</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer ascending
to heaven<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles 30:27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>their prayer came up to his holy dwelling
place, even unto heaven</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Praying and
crying<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Chronicles 32:20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz,
prayed and cried to heaven</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Praying for
someone’s life<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ezra <st1:time hour="18" minute="10">6:10</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and
pray for the life of the king, and of his sons</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer casting
oneself down<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ezra 10:1<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ezra had prayed, and when he had
confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer, fasting,
mourning, and weeping<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Neh 1:4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sat down and wept, and mourned
certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for mercy<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Neh 1:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven,…mercy for them that
love him…</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
see and hear our prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Neh 1:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let thine ear now be attentive, and
thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray
before thee now day and night</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and
confession<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Neh 1:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…and confess the sins</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to begin
the thanksgiving in prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Neh <st1:time hour="11" minute="17">11:17</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to
begin the thanksgiving in prayer</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Pure prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Job <st1:time hour="16" minute="17">16:17</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>also my prayer is pure</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Tearful prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Job <st1:time hour="16" minute="20">16:20</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>mine
eye poureth out tears unto God</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and vows<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Job <st1:time hour="22" minute="27">22:27</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him,
and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer standing
in for others<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Job 42:8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My servant Job shall pray for
you:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for him will I accept</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for your
friends<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Job 42:10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for
his friends</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Morning prayers<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 5:3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Timely prayers<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 32:6 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>pray
unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer against
floods<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ps 32:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>…surely in the floods of great
waters they shall not come nigh unto him.</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Yo-yo prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ps 35:13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and my prayer returned into mine own bosom</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer that God
not hold His peace<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 39:12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>hold not thy peace at my tears:</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer and
singing<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 42:8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>his song shall be with me, and my
prayer unto the God of my life</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to be led<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 61:1-2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…attend unto my prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>…lead me…</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer in an
acceptable time<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ps 69:13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an
acceptable time</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Continuous prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 72:15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prayer
also shall be made for him continually</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Praying your face
to be looked upon<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ps 84:9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Behold, O God our shield, and look
upon the face of thine anointed.</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for a
speedy answer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 102:2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>when I call answer me speedily</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Destitute prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 102:17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
their prayer</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Giving yourself
unto prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Ps 109:4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I give myself unto prayer</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer for peace<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 122:6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
</span></div>
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</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Incense-like
prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 141:2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let my prayer be set forth before
thee as incense</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer seeking an
answer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ps 143:1<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hear my prayer, O Lord, …in thy
faithfulness answer me</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Upright prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Prov 15:8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the prayer of the upright is his delight</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Many prayers<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Is <st1:time hour="13" minute="15">1:15</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>when ye make many prayers</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Sanctuary prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Is <st1:time hour="16" minute="12">16:12</st1:time><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He shall come to his sanctuary to
pray</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Pouring out
prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Is 26:16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…they poured out a prayer…</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Lifted up prayer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Is 37:4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>lift up thy prayer</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Prayer to inform
the world<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Is 37:20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>O Lord our God, …that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know</span></div>
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Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-20005583635609489802012-05-26T11:09:00.000-07:002012-05-26T11:09:16.586-07:00You haven't heard of Emanuel Swedenborg? The following link is to an article about Emanuel Swedenborg posted in the Huffington Post.
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-lachman/why-you-should-know-emanu_b_1424489.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-lachman/why-you-should-know-emanu_b_1424489.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Please check it out. You'll become quite enlightened in spiritual terms and I've found that my general intelligence improves. Something about seeing things in a "Swedenborgian" way (18th Century Christian mystic) these days is helpful. Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-19044911301262114502011-09-17T00:47:00.001-07:002011-09-17T00:48:05.957-07:00Links to Other Blogs
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<a href="http://divineprovidenceproverbs.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://divineprovidenceproverbs.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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This is my simpler modern English re-write of half of the Christian mystic
Emmanuel Swedenborg's book <u>Divine Providence</u>. His complicated older
English style paragraphs are condensed into a moreso proverbs-like expression.<br />
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<a href="http://many-social-networking-tips.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://many-social-networking-tips.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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These are some tips on how to use several social networking websites.<br />
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<a href="http://socialmediaaction.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://socialmediaaction.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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This is an action plan for promoting business websites to make sales in
three social networking community websites: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. <br />
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<a href="http://googlehowtoskills.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://googlehowtoskills.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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This is a larger blog teaching quite a few detailed Google
skills:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little-known details skills,
Google Chrome web browser, Google Maps, Google Earth Free, Google News, Picasa
photos utility, Gmail, Google Notebook, Blogger.com, Google Documents, etc. <o:p></o:p></div>
Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-87173956737371430522011-02-04T23:40:00.002-08:002011-02-04T23:40:51.086-08:0013 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There is a correspondential relationship between everything mental and everything physical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 181<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord arranges the inner forms and workings the way we arrange the outer ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 181<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Spiritually-minded people acknowledge God and divine providence, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 182<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Strict materialists cannot raise their minds above the material world and see the signs of divine providence in its outward appearances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 182<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If you think that was is dead can give you life, you are out of your mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life must come from life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 182<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">From our own inherited evil we are constantly hungering for the deepest hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord through divine providence is constantly leading us away from hell and drawing us out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">By heredity, we want to become powerful and rich to the extent that these loves are not held in check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Divine providence quietly and gradually takes away this excessive love of wealth and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Divine providence uses various rational, civil, and moral means to lead us away from excessive love of wealth and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord never leads us away from striving for high positions or from gaining wealth, only from an obsession with striving for high position simply for the sake of eminence, or for self-seeking reasons, solely for display or for its own sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Achievement becomes something we seek for service primarily and for ourselves secondarily, and not for ourselves primarily and for service secondarily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord always humbles the proud and raises up the humble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.</span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">183<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We have these evils by heredity and more:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fraud, vengeance, blasphemy, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 184<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many people who became powerful and wealthy in the physical world focused solely on themselves in the next life at first talk ab out God and divine providence as though they sincerely believed in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when the see it clearly and therefore see their eventual lot in hell, they join demons there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 185<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord uses divine providence to subtly lead us away from our love of pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 186<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Everyone who accepts inflow from heaven and recognizes divine providence (especially spiritually reformed people) upon seeing events in their amazing kind of sequence, virtually sees providence from a deep recognition and confesses it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.187<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We cannot see divine providence from this world, only from heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 187<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People who have convinced themselves of the supreme value of the physical world and human prudence would not acknowledge providence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 187<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-82618644860901087302011-02-04T23:40:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:40:02.376-08:0012 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal">What makes us human is the goodness of our love and the truths of our wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Being taught from the Word is being taught by the Lord himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What we learn in the Word in this world is small compared to what we’ll learn as angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The wisdom of angels is present throughout the Word, in every detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The only ways the Word can be taught is through parents, teachers, preachers, books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these are not our teachers, the Lord is, He’s using them as means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Divine truth and divine love is given to evil people and good people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 173</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We cannot be inwardly organized by the Lord except to the extent that outward matters are set in order through our own efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 174</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We cannot sense or feel anything of the working of Divine Providence but spiritual people still can know about it and acknowledge it. D.P. 175</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Superficial views and consequent illusions blind our discernment and our discernment cannot gain any sight unless the illusions that lblind it and the distortions that becloud it are dispelled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 175</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">To have a sense of self and be human we must have a sense of worth so our choices of evil or good will matter to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 176</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We all think because we are free and we all think freely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 176</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The evil that is ours does not instantly accept the goodness that the Lord is giving, and the goodness from the Lord does not rid us of our evil instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 177</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are not granted foreknowledge of events so we can keep our ability to act in freedom and to act rationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 178</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If an outcome were foreknown we would have no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hope</i> as we see or await a result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 178</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our human mind is constantly engaged with purposes, means, and results:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The impulse of our volition is the originating purpose; 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the thinking of our discernment is the effectual means; 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the action of the body, the speech of the mouth, or our physical sensation, is the result of the purpose that is achieved through thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 178</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one is allowed to know the future but we can draw conclusion about the future on the basis of reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 179</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A desire to know the future is innate in many people, but since this desire originates in a love for what is evil, it is taken away from people who believe in divine providence, and they are given a trust that the Lord will take care of their fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 179</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Because we mismanage outward matters like eating and drinking we must not be given control of inner matters which are infinite like the two hemisphere of our brains, nerve fibers, organs, and our blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 180</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-5968089120207602552011-02-04T23:38:00.001-08:002011-02-04T23:38:32.522-08:0011 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Simple and wise people talk similarly but think differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both talk as though the sun rises and sets; but the wise know that it stands relatively immobile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 162<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the spiritual world space and distance is an appearance but reflect differences in feelings and in thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>162<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The reality of heaven to angels has not to do with themselves per se but with their level of acceptance of divine love and wisdom from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>163<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord himself governs heaven the way a soul governs its body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>163<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How much are we and the angels united with the Lord and vice versa, the Lord united to us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the extent that we accept love and wisdom from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>164<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In fact, each of us is assignbed a place in the Lord—that is, in heaven—according to the quality of that union or acceptance of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>164<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In our uniqueness we are given a specific livelihood, (yes, we work in heaven until </span><st1:time hour="12" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">noon</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Swedenborg said), responsibilities and needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>164<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are not deprived of our freedom, so we are led and taught within the limits of our personal acceptance of the Lord, love and wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>164<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People who do not accept divine love and wisdom are separated from us rather like feces and urine are excreted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>164<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are led b y the Lord through an inflow and taught by being enlightened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>165<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The reasons we are taught by the Lord by being enlightened is that being enlightened is connected with our wisdom and discernment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>165<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our discernment, the sight of our inner self, is enlightened by spiritual light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our eyes, the sight of our outer self, is enlightened by physical light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>165<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Physical light comes from the sun of the physical world and is dead, while spiritual light comes from the spiritual world’s sun and is alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>166<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are three levels of light in the spiritual world:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavenly( rich and flame-like in the third heaven), 2. spiritual (Brilliantly clear in the middle heaven), 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spiritual-earthly (In the lowest heaven which is like daylight in our world; it like our summer light for good people and like winter light for evil ones).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>166<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The light of the spiritual world has nothing in common with the light of the physical world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are as different as life and death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>166<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There is light in the three levels of hell, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the deepest hell it’s like of glowing coals, 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the middle hell it’s like that of a fireplace, 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the uppermost hell it’s like that of candles or moonlight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>167<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All the people in the spiritual world see just as clearly in their own light as we do in our own daylight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 167<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When angels of heaven look into hell, they see nothing but pure darkness there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When spirit of hell look into heaven, they see nothing but darkness there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavenly wisdom is like darkness to people in hell; and conversely, hellish insanity is like darkness to people in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 167<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Each one of us will come into our own light after death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have no sight in any other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 167<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the spiritual world, we are all spiritual even in respect to our bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 167<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are not many people who know anything ab out the enlightenment that envelops the discernment of people who are being led by the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There is inner and outer enlightenment from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, there is inner and outer enlightenment from ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The inner enlightenment from the Lord is our sensing on first hearing whether what someone is telling us is true or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The outer enlightenment occurs in the thinking we do on that basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The inner enlightenment from ourselves comes strictly from our own convictions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The outer enlightenment from ourselves comes simply from the information we possess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-18388611348726656172011-02-04T23:37:00.001-08:002011-02-04T23:37:15.883-08:0010 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People who are rational from enlightenment hear truthfulness instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The enlightened know that love is the life of faith and faith gets its life from love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The enlightened sense that they do what they intend and love to do; so loving is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The enlightened know that what we love, and do and intend is because of our beliefs so faith is also doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Irreverent people cannot have a love for God or faith in God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">God is omnipotent, hence everything good comes from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The light of heaven enlightens inner rationality from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Knowing what is good and true from experience comes from outer enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Outer enlightenment sees the reasons that support it and dismisses seen illusions that undermine it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Inner enlightenment from ourselves sees things from not good and not true views like bribed judges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bribed judges rationalize their decisions by laws and arguments to look fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bribed judges can see some unfairness, but they don’t want to see it, so they veil it over and even blind themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People construct their own ideas and confirm it by people in authority, or famous people, friends, or family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These are blind reasons or confirmations because they are based on distortions which close sight, while truth opens it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some only see from the feeble light of their own convictions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cannot see truth nor fairness from a love of fairness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Outer enlightenment from ourselves is thinking and talking solely from memorized things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One cannot come to any conclusions on one’s own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 168<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The light from spiritual enlightenment can be seen in the spiritual world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 169<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t live in faith alone and not in charity nor be impressed with your own intelligence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 170<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Deeper levels of your rationality would be opened if you were brought into a community where there is real faith and real intelligence and wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 170<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Being taught through the Word, and teaching and preaching from the Word is being taught directly by the Lord alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 171<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All the teachings of the church should be based on the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Word comes from the Lord and is about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Word is not reduced by being taught indirectly in sermons from the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Word is actually divine and is able to communicate something divine and instill it into our hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thinking from the Lord is thinking from the Word and even thinking by means of the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Union</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> with the Lord is abiding in him and his words in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All parts of the Word touches some part of heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The Word” means divine wisdom coming from divine love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 172<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-69939964304549179092011-02-04T23:36:00.001-08:002011-02-04T23:36:31.793-08:009 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal">The Lord is the only source of our life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 156</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is the intentions of our life that are led by the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the intelligence of our life that is taught by the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 156</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are not deprived of our sense of living on our own, because that is what makes us human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 156</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It can be proved that our life comes from the Lord alone and not from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Every thing in us that has to do with love and wisdom comes from the Lord as the source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This single, essential reality is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Can anyone fail to see and admit on rational grounds that there is only one essence that is the source of all essence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sun of the angelic heaven is the one substance and form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In created things (and created living beings) that essence, substance and form comes out variously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything about us that seems to be alive involves our volition and our discernment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone sees this on rational grounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We intend what we love and think about what we discern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All our volition has to do with love and all of our discernment has to do with wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nothing that is good and true can come from any other source than from the one who is goodness itself and truth itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything that moves us or occupies our thoughts comes from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything good and true within us that originates in us is not really good or true, only what comes from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">All think that God is present wherever we happen to be which is why we pray to God as present with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everyone who prays to God is asking at heart for guidance—because God is able to guide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">God is one in essence and in person. This God is the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The essential Deity called Jehovah the Father is the Lord from eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The son conceived by Deity from eternity and born into the world is the Divine-Human One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit is the Deity emanating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Lord created everything from his own self and not from nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 157</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Angels of the third heaven know that their life comes from the Lord and not from themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 158</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The more closely we are united to the Lord, the more clearly we seem to have our own identity, and yet the more obvious it is that we belong to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 158</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For some years Swedenborg had been granted the same kind of sense of being closely united to the Lord, and the same appearance of having his own identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he was convinced that he didn’t intend of think anything on his own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 158</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The life of good people and evil people come from the same source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both warmth and light flow from the sun of our world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They flow into poisonous and good fruit trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The forms into which the warmth flows make the difference, not the warmth itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 160</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is the same with the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light is diversified into colors depending on the forms into which it flows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are beautiful and cheerful colors, and ugly and depressing ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the light is the same in either case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 160</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The inflow from the spiritual world’s sun is spiritual warmth that is essentially love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spiritual light is essentially wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The forms into which they flow make the difference (our minds).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 160</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The life of animals is a life of merely physical impulses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 161</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Lord is in the whole angelic heaven the way our soul is in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is in every community of heaven and likewise in every individual angel there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, our soul is not just the soul of our whole being but the soul of every part of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 162</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-13060194813148707782011-02-04T23:35:00.001-08:002011-02-04T23:35:41.797-08:008 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal">Our inner and outer thought processes can act separately as well as together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Dishonest people talk and act on the basis of their outer thought in ways that differ from their deeper thought and intent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Honest people’s inner and outer thoughts act together as they say and do what they think and intend inwardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When we think of evils as sins and therefore try to refrain from them the inner thoughts fight against the outer thoughts and forcibly make them consent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The “pleasures in what is good” are the benefits that arise from our caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are slaves when we are in our sins and liberated by the Lord when we accept truth from him through the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 145</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The inner self is full of desire for honesty, while the outer self enjoys cheating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 146</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Once the battle is won, the outer self delights in honest that is true caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gradually thereafter our pleasure in cheating becomes distasteful to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 146</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sins include adultery, promiscuity, vengefulness, hatred, blasphemy and deceit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love of being in control due to our sense of self-importance is the head of them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.146</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are locked in our earthly mind when we are locked in our compulsions to evil and their pleasures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 147</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As soon as we realize that our evils are sins against God and divine laws, and try to refrain from them, the Lord opens our spiritual mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 147</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Every young person who intends to have a job, go into business, or hold some office wants to be set free throughout their apprenticeship so they can make their own decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is compelling themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 148</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Christian religion has closed the door on intelligence, and the theology of faith alone has sealed it shut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 149</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The dogma that theological matters are beyond our grasp and that we should therefore not use our rationality in our approach to them is the iron wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 149</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Not many people look into themselves and see their sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 149</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our outer self has to be reformed by means of our inner self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 150</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Whatever the Lord teaches, he enables us to perceive rationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 150</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The two ways to perceive the Lord’s teachings:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. seeing its truth within ourselves as soon as we hear it, 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>through rational analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 150</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Seeing the Lord’s teachings in ourselves happens in our inner self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing them rationally happens in our outer self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 150</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is our intelligence that is seeing through our eyes and hearing through our ears, not the reverse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things seen do not enter into our eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things heard do not enter our ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 150<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The inner self is not reformed simply by gaining knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, not, that is, simply by thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 151</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are reformed inwardly by intending to do what our knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom tell us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 151</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1<sup>st</sup> step of reformation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not intend evil because it is from hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And intend good instead because it is from heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 151</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">2<sup>nd</sup> step of reformation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intend to stop doing wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 151</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Unless we do what we intend, there is a lack of real intention inside that eventually becomes unwillingness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 151</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The only way to look into our spirits is to see what we are thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially see what we are striving for which is our intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 152</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thinking on the basis of our intentions is both intending and doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(If anyone has looked at someone else’s wife so as to ust for her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Matthew 5:28])</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Evils are to be avoided as sins, otherwise they are not forgiven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if sins are not forgiven there is no salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 153</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most people only think about faith and about (false) salvation because of their faith alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 153</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The idea of salvation by faith alone closes the eyes so completely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that people read the Word without seeing love, caring and doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 153</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We should b e led and taught by the Lord, from heaven, by means of the Word, and teaching and preaching from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">To all appearances, we are leading and teaching ourselves, while actually its by the Lord alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If we convince ourselves of the appearance and not of the truth along with it, we cannot get rid of our evils as sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">People who convince themselves of both the appearance and the truth worship the Lord because He is raising them above their illusory sense of self-importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are given a profound sense that we are being led and taught not by ourselves but by the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rational processes of individuals who entertain both the appearance and the truth are spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rational processes of people who entertain the appearance but not the truth are bound by the material world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are led by the Lord and taught by being enlightened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 154</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-28519906179012830232011-02-04T23:34:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:34:25.194-08:007 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal">What is inside resists compulsion from the outside so definitely that it turns the other way. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our inner nature wants to be in freedom and loves its freedom. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When something free feels that it is being controlled, it withdraws into itself, so to speak, and turns in the opposite direction. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If we think that we are not in control of ourselves, we think therefore we are not living our own life. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We should act in freedom in accordance with reason. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is harmful to compel people to worship God by threats and punishments. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ones whose worship has no inner substance is all on the surface. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship pens in our evils, so that they lie hidden like fire in bits of wood buried in ashes that keep smoldering and spreading until they break out in flame. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Worship that is not compulsory but completely voluntary does not pen in our evils. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What is inside is like a master and what is outside is like a servant. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything that makes up our discernment and volition is first given form by things that come in through our physical senses, especially sight and hearing. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Self-compulsion is not contrary to our freedom and rationality. D.P. 136</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship is physical, lifeless, dark, and depressing. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship is physical because it engages the body but not the mind. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship is lifeless because our life is not in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship is dark because our discernment is not in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Compulsory worship is depressing because the joy of heaven is not in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When voluntary worship is sincere it is spiritual, living, bright, and joyful. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Voluntary worship is spiritual because there is a spirit from the Lord in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Voluntary worship is living because there is life from the Lord in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Voluntary worship is bright because there is wisdom from the Lord in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Voluntary worship is joyful because theree is heaven from the Lord in it. D.P. 137</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nothing becomes part of us except what we do in freedom and in accord with reason. D.P. 138</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Whatever is done by our own volition by means of our own discernment becomes part of us. D.P. 138</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one is reformed in states that lack freedom and rationality. D.P. 138</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The states that lack freedom and rationality include: states of fear, emergency, mental illness, serious physical illness, ignorance, and intellectual blindness. D.P. 138</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fear takes away our freedom and rationality, or our “freeness” and our “reasonableness.” D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fear closes the inner reaches of the mind; but love opens it. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When our inner mind is closed we do very little actual thinking. D.P. 139 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Being fearful we only are conscious of what is impinging on our feelings or our senses. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fear can never occupy our inner thought processes. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Often the fear that occupies our outer thought processes is primarily a fear of losing rank and losing wealth. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Outward civil and ecclesiastical penalties regard the laws that prescribe penalties only for people who speak and act contrary to the civil principles of the state and the spiritual principles of the church. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These penalties do not refer to thinking contrary to those principles. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Inner thinking is closed when it is wholly identified with the outer thinking. Then it is not functioning on its own, but is governed by the outer. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">People can be on fire for the salvation of souls even though the fire is a hellish one. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">People can create their own religion which confers their own sense of eminence and splendor, and being revered as demigods and as rulers. D.P. 139</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one is reformed by thinking of God and pleading for help in a state of emergency. D.P. 140 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Fearing God” means fearing to offend him, and sinning is offending. D.P. 140</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Without fearing God our love is insipid, only skin deep. It occupies our thoughts only, and not our intentions. D.P. 140</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“States of emergency” means states when hope is threatened by danger, as happens in battles, duels, shipwrecks, falls, and fires; the sudden, threatened loss of wealth or of employment and its prestige. D.P. 140</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The reason no one is reformed in a state of mental illness is that mental illness deprives us of rationality. D.P. 141</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A healthy mind is rational, a sick one is not. D.P. 141</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Mental illness” refers to things like depression, imagined or illusory guilt, hallucinations, mental anguish, mental anxiety and pay brought on by physical disorders. D.P. 141</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When the mind focuses on these earthly issues, it goes mad. D.P. 141</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When we are seriously ill and thinking about death and the state of our souls after death, if we had been reformed before we fell sick it can strengthen us. D.P. 142</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When we are completely withdrawn from the world, we cannot be reformed. This holds true for people who renounce the world and all its dealings and devaote themselves totally to thoughts of God and heaven and salvation. D.P. 142</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is pointless to think that we can repent or accept any faith while we are seriously ill. Our repentance then and our faith are all talk and no heart. D.P. 142</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The reason no one is reformed in a state of ignorance is that our reformation takes place by means of truths and by means of our living by them. D.P. 143</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If people do not know what is true, they cannot be reformed. However, if they long for truths because they are drawn to them, then they are reformed in the spiritual world after death. D.P. 143</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When our discernment is blind, our volition is blocked. D.P. 144</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If religion teaches a blind faith, it blinds our discernment just the way ignorance does. D.P. 144</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When our discernment is blinded by compulsions to evil it justifies the evils. D.P. 144</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Don’t let your discernment become stupid because of its debauchery. D.P. 144</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-23169314354429820412011-02-04T23:32:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:32:32.389-08:006 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proberbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Three kinds of visions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. Divine visions are portrayals in heaven, 2. Demonic visions are magical events in hell, 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imaginary visions are illusions of a lost mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Visions are not in the body but in the spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not while we are physically awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">John was in the vision of the spirit when he wrote the Book of Revelation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Visions are visible from heaven to the sight of your spirit and not to your physical sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was foretold in Daniel 9:24 that visions would stop when the Lord came into the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Demonic visions are by spirits who inspire deceptive passions and visions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Conversations with the dead may end up releasing pent-up evils erupting in blasphemy and profanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 134b<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When we are allowed to talk with spirits (rarely with angels of heaven), they talk with us in our own everyday language and use only a few words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 135<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Good spirits never take away our freedom to think rationally; and they do not teach, either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 135<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Only the Lord teaches us and through the Word, (when we are enlightened).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 135<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Swedenborg had been talking with spirits and angels for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 135<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord was constantly before Swedenborg’s eyes as the sun in which he dwells, just as he is for angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 135<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are many things that we sense to be true upon hearing them, simply because they are true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Truths not supported by rational considerations can be undermined by arguments bassed on deceptive appearances and eventually denied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Can anyone be forced to believe and to love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Nor can we be forced to think what we do not think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We can be forced not to speak maliciously against earthly authority, everyday customs, the holy values of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These are compelled by threats and punishments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This inner level can be called our animal inner nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our human inner nature dwells on a higher level and cannot be thus compelled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 136<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-13867055024420610252011-02-04T23:31:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:31:12.035-08:005 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When we are about to repent we need to turn to the Lord alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 122<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There is only one God, and the Lord is that God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 122<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord instituted the Holy Supper, assuring forgiveness of sins to those who repent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 122<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">During the (Holy) Supper or Communion, each participant is kept focused on the Lord alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 122<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It is the unceasing effort of the Lord’s divine providence to unite us to himself and himself to us in order to give us the joys of eternal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Since (the) threefold nature in a single Being exists only in the Lord, it follows that any union must be a union with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord, heaven, and eternal life are real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord gives us the bliss of eternal life, since this is the nature of divine love. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We cannot be united to the Lord and thus reformed, regenerated, and saved until we are allowed to act freely and rationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Anything that is in accord with the Lord’s divine wisdom is also in accord with his divine providence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 123<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Two secrets of angelic wisdom:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord never acts in any detail of our being by itself unless he acts in all the details at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord acts from the center and the boundaries at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our spirit, the mind that is in our body, has a complete human form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After death we are people just as much as we are in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only difference is that we have cast off the skin that made up our body in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The whole angelic heaven is like a single person in the Lord’s sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord acts on each of us most directly on our minds, and through them on everything in our bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No one could have been saved unless the Lord had come into the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord from eternity or Jehovah came into the world and put on the clothing of a human nature (there in outermost form) in order to be present in first and last things at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This enabled him to save those people whom he could save.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 124<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our center is our life’s love, and our boundaries are the contents of our outward thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 125<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord cannot work … unless he works with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 125<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This means that in those matters where we make (good) choices the Lord is working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 125<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We should abstain from evils as sins and turn to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the only way the Lord can set aside our life’s love, (which is hellish from our birth,) and transplant a love for heavenly life in its place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 125<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Once the Lord has transplanted a love for heavenly life in place of a love for hellish life,… (we have) eventually genuine care in place of cleverness, and wise thought processes in place of malicious ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 126<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Teachings about Life for the New Jerusalem</span></u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> tells which good qualities take the place of evil ones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 126<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We come to love truths of wisdom to the extent that we abstain from evils as sins and dislike them; we have faith and become spiritual to the same extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 126<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What is repentance, the forgiveness of sins and consequently salvation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. explore ourselves, 2. see our sins, 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>admit them, 4. confess them to God, 5. stop committing them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 127<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Open the Word and read it and you will see this clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 128<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We should not be compelled think and intend and so to believe and love in matters of our religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should guide ourselves and sometimes compel ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our spirit or mind has complete freedom to think, intend, believe, and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We can be compelled to say that we think and intend something or that we believe and love something. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless this is or becomes a matter of our own desire and our consequent reasoning, it is not something that we really think, intend, believe and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We can be compelled to speak in favor of religion and to act according to religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we cannot be compelled to think in its favor as a matter of our own faith and to intend it as a matter of our own love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Everyone is obliged not to speak against religion or to violate it in action, but still no one can be compelled to think and intend in its favor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No one is reformed by:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. Miracles and signs, 2. visions or by conversations with the dead, 3. by threats or by punishment, D.P. 129<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord leave(s) us to convince ourselves by rational means of the truth of anything that has become a matter of faith for us because of the (a) miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 130<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If what we are looking at is something true, we could compare it to a good-looking, vibrant young woman or young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 130<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(A) kind of blindness and deafness is imposed on our minds by miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same holds true for any conviction that is not looked at rationally before it becomes a conviction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 130<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A faith caused by miracles is not real faith but only second-hand belief. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has no rational content, let alone spiritual content. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 130<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t have faith which is actually an outer shell with nothing inside it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 131<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When the only thing that prompts the acknowledgment, the worship, and the devotion is some miracle, then we are acting from the earthly level … not from the spiritual level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 131<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord only enters us from the inside, that is, by means of the Word and by lessons and sermons based on the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 131<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord did miracles in our presence when he was in the world:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even so, we crucified him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 132<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Good people have no desire for miracles but they believe the miracles in the Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 132<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Good people base their thinking on the Word and therefore on the Lord and not on miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 133<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Evil people can actually be constrained and compelled to faith and even to worship and devotion by miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lasts only a short while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 133<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Evil people wind up calling miracles a sham, a trick, or a natural event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This enables them to return to their evil ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>133<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People who go back to their evil ways after being worshipful profane what is good and true in worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 133<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If miracles happen for people who do not believe in the miracles in the Word, they would be happening constantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 133<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-2324479607678489962011-02-04T23:29:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:29:13.945-08:004 Citations from Divine Providence book by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proberbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t refrain from evil deeds just being afraid of the laws and for your reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do so because they are sins against God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the spiritual world where we all arrive after death, no one asks what our faith has been or what our beliefs have been, only what our life has been, whether we are one kind of person or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Life constructs a belief system for itself and constructs a faith for itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It is the unceasing effort of the Lord to united us to himself and himself to us and give us the joys of eternal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 102<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t trivialize your neighbor having no fear of God yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t in your inner thinking argue against: 1. our civil laws, 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against the virtues of moral living, 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against the theological issues of spiritual life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t be driven by your compulsions to evil but want to seem to the world that you are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Have your private thoughts be the same as the thoughts you are expressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s flatterers and hypocrites that have two levels of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can control themselves and prevent their inner thinking from being seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We can reflect on our outer thought from the vantage point of our inner thought and decide whether it is evil or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how we can see anything evil in ourselves and be reformed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 104<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are two kinds of ruling love:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavenly love versus Hellish love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavenly love is love for the Lord and for our neighbor, and hellish love is love for ourselves and for the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 106<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When we just love ourselves and the world we intend good to no one but ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 106<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When we love the Lord and our neighbor we intend good to everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 106<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Heavenly love we love good people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hellish love we love evil-oriented people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 106<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hellish love attracts us to what is evil and false (compulsions); whereas Heavenly love attracts us to what is good and true (predilections).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 106<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If you in your spirit regard evils as permissible you will have cravings for evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 108<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are hypocrite priests who, while preaching love to the neighbor, trivialize the neighbor having no fear of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 109<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are judges who make decisions on the basis of bribes and friendships while pretending to be advocates of justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 109<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are business people who are dishonest and deceptive at heart while they act honestly for the sake of their profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 109<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Even adulterers talk about the chastity of marriage sounding rationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 109<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One can see in the smallest details of the hypocrite’s façade the self-centeredness, love for the world and wiles aimed at getting a reputation for decency with profits in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 109<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With heavenly love people their inner and outer thinking act in unison when the talk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 110<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Good people act thoughtfully, “clothed with robes of passion” for both theological truth and good deeds of daily life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 110<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Evil compulsions combine with deviousness and intrigues to make up their own thought processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 111<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Once evil deeds are considered permissible, then the pleasures of the evil deeds unite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 111<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Consent is the same as action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 111 (Matthew 5:28:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If anyone has looked at someone else’s wife so as to lust for her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the spiritual world our cravings for evil and their pleasures look like fires, hence the term “hellfire”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 112<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If our cravings for evil are not healed they spread like floods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 112<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The more thieves steal the more obsessed they are with stealing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the same with cheating and cheaters, with hatred and vengefulness, with hedonism and gluttony, with promiscuity, blasphemy, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 112<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The love of power for self-aggrandizement grows to the extent that restraints are relaxed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same holds true for the love of possessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 112<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We cannot sense the compulsions that underlie our own evils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their pleasures seduce our thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only discover this from some other source that they are evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 113<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Madness and distortion rule the realms of evil-oriented people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 113<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">False imaginary constructs and arguments based on illusions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are used to make distortions seem true and to be accepted as true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.113<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-77300862223609993932011-02-04T23:27:00.001-08:002011-02-04T23:27:47.597-08:003 Citations from Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into provberbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord cannot rid us of (the) evil (in our outer nature) without our help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In all Christian churches the accepted teaching is that before we come to take Holy Communion we should:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Examine ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">See and admit our sins<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Repent by fraining from them and rejecting them because they come from the devil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Otherwise our sins are not forgiven, and we are damned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When people hear sermons on salvation by faith alone, they dismiss the Holy Communion vow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All Christian churches share the basic conviction that we need to examine ourselves, see and admit our sins, and then refrain from them; and (that) otherwise we face not salvation but damnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Think about this, then, with some clarity of mind and if you are religious you will see that repentance from sins is the pathway to heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">You will see that faith apart from repentance is not really faith and that people who are without faith because they are without repentance are on the road to hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 114<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some people accept a faith separate from charity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 115<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul lists the laws of faith and says that they are in fact deeds of charity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 115<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(In the Word) are lists of evil deeds (which) people who do them cannot enter heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 115<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Whatever we hear, see, think, intend, say, and do seems to belong to us completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it did not seem like this, we would not be able to accept divine truth, decide to do good, or internalize love and wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would have no charity and faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 116<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Does it not seem exactly as though we ourselves think about what is good and true in spiritual, civil, and moral matters?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 116<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We should do what is good and think what is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 116<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are to expel evils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 116<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many people do not know that they are involved in evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do not do evil things outwardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are afraid of civil laws and of losing their reputations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Avoid evil deeds on religious grounds because they are sins and are in conflict with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Examine your thoughts and intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t believe that the law does not condemn sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pay attention to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t doubt whether there are such things as sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are sins in God’s sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Natural moralists believe that everything depends on our civic and moral life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Natural moralists (only) cultivate a reputation and a name for decency and honest for the sake of position or profit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 117<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Struggle against sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 118<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t only prevent sins from being visible in the world<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 118<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord cannot cleanse us until we have done our part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 119<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cooperate with the Lord. D.P. 119<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are forms of hell when we are in the grip of our compulsions and the evils they cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 119<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord is constantly pressing us, urging us, to open the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 119<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are infinite things in the inner state of our minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>120<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our thought or our inner self is our actual spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 120<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our senses tell us nothing about the way our minds or souls work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 120<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We do not know how the Lord is at work in our minds or souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 120<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t believe:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Simply believing what the church teaches cleanses us from our evils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Just) doing good cleanses us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Just) knowing, discussing, and teaching about churchly matters cleanses us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Just) reading the Word and devotional literature cleanses us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Just) going to church and listening to sermons and taking Communion cleanses us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Just) renouncing the world and being resolutely devout cleanses us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">None of these cleanses us unless we examine ourselves, see our sins, admit them, accept responsibility for them, and repent by not committing them any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the Lord’s power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 121<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t do 1-6 for credit or hypocritically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 121<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-15343673695240607592011-02-04T23:23:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:23:28.158-08:002 Citations from Divine Providence by Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Only people who love their neighbor as themselves can<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>avoid doing any violence to any soul whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 94<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<u>Divine Providence</u> book section 94 by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1877, Sweden)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “Ten Commandments” of Moses are separated into two parts:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loving our neighbor, 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loving the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we don’t want to do #2 we won’t be able to do #1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. #95<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Without discernment and volition we would not be human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discernment is distinguishing right from wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volition is wanting to do right and not wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 96<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord gives us Freedom which is why we can want to do right or want to do wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 96<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord’s gift of rationality is how we know what is reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 96<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Evil-oriented people misuse their ability to discern what is true and intend what is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 96<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our discernment and intention from the Lord lead irrevocably to eternal life, heaven’s life from the core of our being to its outer limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 96<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Act from freedom and in accord with reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 97<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t do evil out of a love for doing evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 97<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t justify doing or thinking evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a kind of slavery, imitation of reason, distorted reason and a façade made up of rationalizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 97<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord leads us away from evil-orientation through our freedom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 97<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord plants good things in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 97<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Idleness distorts or shuts down the deeper levels of the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 98<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some people resolutely deny the Lord’s divine nature and the holiness of the Word all the way to the end of their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 98<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Atheists by arguments based on visual evidence attribute everything to the material world and nothing to Divinity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 98<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Real freedom and real rationality are difficult for people who convince themselves of false religious principles. D.P. 98<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Children’s and youth’s minds are opened only gradually at the deeper levels by maturity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 98<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When you don’t want to understand you turn back to your own thoughts and you stop understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 99<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How do you attain to real freedom and real rationality?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abstain from evils as sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord cannot fully enter us unless what is His opposite, evil and false, has been banished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 100<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Banish the devil so the Lord can enter and banish hell so heaven can enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 100<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We’re in hell when we engage in evil pursuits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t convince yourself of a faith that is devoid of caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If we don’t know what evil is we inevitably wind up loving it because of the false pleasure it offers us. D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He or she who neglect thinking about evil is constantly involved in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t think our evils are hidden from God and would be forgiven if they came to light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Refrain from evil deeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Why not even think in our spirit of doing evil deeds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because whatever we think in our spirit in this world we do after we leave this world when we become spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.P. 101<o:p></o:p></span></div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746276136825598144.post-13795559101140404962011-02-04T23:21:00.000-08:002011-02-04T23:30:08.998-08:001 Selected Divine Providence book citations by Emanuel Swedenborg simplified into proverbs<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Selected <u>Divine Providence</u> book citations which are reformatted in Proverbs-like form and updated a little to more current phraseology by Elbert Smith </span><st1:date day="8" month="11" year="2008"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">November 8, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">“Chance” and “Coincidence” are empty words. DP 70<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">It is integral that we act from freedom, and in accord with reason. DP 72<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We have a capacity for disciplined thought. DP 73<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Freedom is a matter of love. DP 73<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">People who think that evils are sins and therefore do not want to do them turn toward the Lord. DP 73<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Reality needs manifestation and substance needs form for them to have any attributes. DP 74<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">There is nothing in the physical world that is not connected to the spiritual world. DP 74<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We are able to think about our thinking from a higher level. DP 75<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">If we do not want to understand anything except what has to do with this world and its nature, if we do not want to understand what is good and true on moral and spiritual levels, we can not rise from knowledge into intelligence, let alone from intelligence into wisdom, because we have blocked off these abilities. DP 75<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We rationality and freedom uncovered and brought to light, abstainin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">g from our inner evils we turn toward good acts the way one friend turns to another. DP 77</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">There’s no “who we are”. Everything good that we do freely, in keepinjg with reason is not ours but the Lord’s within us. DP 78<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">If we repent the good behavior then takes its place in the center and moves the evil toward the periphery. DP 79<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Nothing that we simply think about becomes part of us unless we actually would do it if the opportunity arose. DP 80<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Don’t believe that some particular evil is permissible and relax the inner restraint against it so that you are kept from doing it only by outward restraints , which are fears. DP 8l<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">You have to know what love and thoughtful living are to know what faith really is. DP 82<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">If in our thinking we justify the pleasures of love for evil desires we are insane. DP 83<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">When we don’t think about subconscious impulses to do evils (which can be controlled by fears), we think these external forms of worship will save us: Pouring out prayers, listen to sermons, taking communion, giving to the poor, helping the needy, contributing to churches, supporting hospices, etc. DP 84<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">For evil-oriented people the peripheral good is corrupted by the central evils, and for good-oriented people the peripheral evil is mitigated by the central goodness. DP 86<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Evil can be justified just the way good can but only by use of deceptive appearances. Then it’s taken as certainties becoming what we call falsities which will seem reasonable. DP 87<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">God is sometimes called “Ability Itself” and “the One”. DP 88<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Hypocrites and flatters’ outer intentions are free because they come from a desire to appear other than they really are. DP89<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Acknowledging the Lord from wisdom comes from a belief system. Acknowledging the Lord from love comes from living by said belief system. EP 91<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Someone who accepts spiritual beliefs but rejects the challenging of living by them is like an acquaintance with whom one can chat cordially but whom actually is an enemy that hates you. DP 91<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">How can both people who teach the truth and live well be saved as well as those who teach the truth and live evil lives? DP 91<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Love wants to be loved. To the extent that it is loved in return, it is filled with pleasure. DP 92<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">When the Lord draws near you don’t back off. DP 92<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Be a do-gooder and a truth-teller. DP92<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Find pleasure and bliss in what is good. DP 93<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">When pleasure in evil is felt as good, that is hell. DP 93<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Turning to God during our lives is nothing but abstaining from evils as sins. DP 93<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">What’s loving our neighbor as ourselves? It’s simply not dealing dishonestly or unfairly with them, nor harboring hatred or burning with revenge against them of course. It’s not speaking ill of them or slandering them, nor coming adultery with their spouse, etc. DP 94<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Don’t do violence to the Word which is the Lord. Don’t do violence to holy practices or to any soul whatever. This is loving the Lord above all. DP 94<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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