Divine Providence #130
Topics covered:
- Miracles virtually blind and enthrall the external of thought
- Like a maiden or youth sculpted out of stone or wood
- Like an object before the eyes which is the only thing seen and which hides everything else
- Such is the blindness and deafness induced on the human mind by miracles
- It is the same with everything affirmed that is not examined with any rationality before it is affirmed
From Chapter 6, “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”
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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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