Divine Providence #133

Topics covered:

• The effect of miracles in the case of good people is different from that in the case of evil people
• Good people do not wish for miracles, but they believe the miracles that are in the Word
• Moreover, if they hear of some miracle, they pay no attention to it other than as a minor proof that confirms their faith; for they form their thinking from the Word, thus from the Lord, and not from any miracle
• In order that these may break out of their prison of piety, the evil eventually call the miracle a fake or a trick or a natural phenomenon
• One who goes back to his evils after worshiping profanes the truths and goods of worship, and the lot of profaners after death is the worst of all

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 #132

Topics covered:

• Because the Israelites could not be brought by internal qualities of worship to represent those things, therefore they were brought to it by miracles
• After the Lord manifested Himself and was received and acknowledged in the churches as the eternal God, miracles ceased

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 #131

Topics covered:

• Faith vs. persuasion
• Blind faith has no rationality in it, still less something spiritual
• The only path by which the Lord enters a person is an internal path, which is through the Word, doctrine from the Word, and preaching and teaching from it

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 #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”

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 #129

Topics covered:

• New chapter, new Law: “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”
• This chapter contains these points, in order:
  • (1) No one is reformed by miracles and signs, because they compel.
  • (2) No one is reformed by visions or by communications with the dead, because they compel.
  • (3) No one is reformed by threats and punishments, because they compel.
  • (4) No one is reformed in states devoid of rationality and freedom.
  • (5) It is not contrary to rationality and freedom to compel oneself.
  • (6) The outer self must be reformed by the inner self, and not the reverse.

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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 #128

Topics covered:

• Who does not know from the Word that everyone is allotted a life after death in accordance with his deeds?
• Open the Word, read it, and you will clearly see–only first free your thoughts from justification by faith alone

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

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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 #127

Topics covered:

• Throughout the Christian world it is the commonly held religion that a person should examine himself and repent, for example, in the creed named from Athanasius

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

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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 #126

Topics covered:

• Instead of a hellish love, a heavenly love is implanted
• Instead of lusts for evil, affections for good and truth
• Instead of cunning, prudence is implanted

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

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 #125

Topics covered:

• It is not necessary for a person to know anything more than to refrain from evils as sins and look to the Lord
• As a person acts in the outer elements of his life that are under his control, the Lord acts on his inner and outer elements simultaneously
• Only thus can a person receive heavenly love from the Lord

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

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 #124

Topics covered:

• For a person’s mind is an angel, in the measure of its conjunction with the Lord
• With the body being its obedient servant
• The Lord never acts upon one thing in a person without acting upon all things in him
• This is why the Lord is called the First and the Last

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

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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