Divine Providence #142

Topics covered:

• From point 4 of this chapter’s outline: “No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom”

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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Divine Providence #141

Topics covered:

• From point 4 of this chapter’s outline: “No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom”

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #140

Topics covered:

• From point 4 of this chapter’s outline: “No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom”

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #139

Topics covered:

• From point 4 of this chapter’s outline: “No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom”

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #138

Topics covered:

• Explaining point 4 from this chapter’s outline

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #137

Topics covered:

• Coerced worship is lifeless, hazy and mournful
• The joy of genuine worship described

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #135

Topics covered:

• This is why we read the Word
• The Lord alone teaches a person, but indirectly through the Word when the person is in a state of enlightenment
• Enlightenment while reading the Word is from the spiritual sun emanating from the Lord

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #134(r)

Topics covered:

• If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead
• But this only occurs when spirits inject some dogma of religion, which is never done by any good spirit, still less by any angel of heaven

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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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Divine Providence #134

Topics covered:

• (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”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

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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