DP 104 If we couldn’t reflect on our own thoughts we’d be like animals

Divine Providence #104

Topics covered:

  • Every person of mature age has an external and an internal level of thought
  • Caught up in lusts for evil yet wishing to appear free of them
  • Anyone can speak of the justice of civil laws and the virtues of a moral life yet privately think in opposition to these
  • What we all have in common with hypocrites
  • One can think about what he is thinking and judge whether his thought is evil or not

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.