Divine Providence #136
Topics covered:
- Truths perceived can still be overshadowed by reasonings, so it helps to illustrate them further
- People who do not allow themselves to be coerced include many of the English nation
- White clouds vs. dark clouds
- Compelled worship shuts in evils, which continue to smolder
- Voluntary worship does not shut in evils
- The internal self is master, the external self its servant
- Delights of the intellect, delights of the will
- All little children in the spiritual world are introduced by the Lord into angelic wisdom by means of delights and gratifications
- …This is the case because every constituent of the intellect and will must be formed by something external before it is formed by something internal
- A person is reformed not by faith only, but by a love of the will which forms for itself its faith
- Compelled by love and a fear of losing love (This is fear of God and self-compulsion)
Point 3 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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