Divine Providence #129
Topics covered:
- New chapter, new Law: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Not Be Compelled By External Means to Think and Will, Thus to Believe and Love, Matters Having to Do with Religion; but That a Person Bring Himself to Do So and at Times Compel Himself”
- This chapter contains these points, in order:
- (1) No one is reformed by miracles and signs, because they compel.
- (2) No one is reformed by visions or by communications with the dead, because they compel.
- (3) No one is reformed by threats and punishments, because they compel.
- (4) No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom.
- (5) It is not contrary to rationality and freedom to compel oneself.
- (6) The outer self must be reformed by the inner self, and not the reverse.
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Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.
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