Divine Providence #134
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- (2) No one is reformed by visions or by communications with the dead, because they compel
- On the other hand, diabolic visions do sometimes occur, induced by fanatic and visionary spirits, who, owing to the madness that grips them, call themselves the Holy Spirit
- There are also hallucinatory visions, but they are simply the delusions of a distraught mind
- We can be reformed by means of the visions in the Word
Point #2 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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