Divine Providence #113

Topics covered:

• A person is incapable of perceiving the lusts of his own evil
• If he did not know from some other source that they are evil, he would call them good
• To the extent he makes evils allowable, he enlarges the court of his reigning love
• Can the state of a person like this be changed in any other way than by putting away the evils in his external self?
• Otherwise the lusts have no exit open to them, for they are shut in, like a city besieged, or like an ulcer covered over

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 #112

Topics covered:

• Before evil is removed, lusts have no exit & remain
• Like fire, lusts blaze more when they’re fed 
• The more a thief steals, the greater his lust to steal (i.e. Acting on lusts doesn’t “get them out of your system”)
• Those who cannot desist from evils
• People know that the love of ruling stemming from a love of self grows to the extent it is given free rein
• To the degree evils are given free reign, the lusts grow

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”

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 #111 Chapter 5 section 3: The internal level cannot be purified of its lusts for evil as long as evils in the external self have not been put away, because they stand in the way

Topics covered:

• It’s an (evil) person’s internal will that’s caught up in LUSTS
• It’s his internal intellect that’s caught up in CUNNING & GUILE
• It’s his external will that’s caught up in the DELIGHTS of lust
• …and it’s his external intellect that’s caught up in the SCHEMES springing from cunning & guile

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”

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 #110

Topics covered:

• Those governed by heavenly love also have a deputy
• Heavenly love directs its deputy to act with prudence, and clothes it with the garments of a zeal both for the truths of doctrine and for goods of life

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”

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 #109

Topics covered:

• The life’s love places below itself a deputy, called the love of the means
• With the cunning of its captain (the life’s love) the deputy speaks in accordance with civil and moral standards

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”

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 #108

Topics covered:

• One can picture something, but still not see it rationally
• One’s end in view imparts its whole character to the cause and its effect

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”

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 #107

Topics covered:

• How a person is like a tree (in detail)
• Fruit is like the delight of an affection, its seeds being the thoughts that delight contains
• Hellish love like a spider in its web where flies flitting about are caught, wrapped up, and devoured

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”

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 #106 Chapter 5 section 2: “A person’s external level of thought in itself is of the same character as his internal one.“

Topics covered:

• Evil affections are properly called ‘lusts’
• Affections (or lusts) refer to desires of the will on a deeper level, which are experienced in the external as delights
• The same is true of perceptions (internal) and the thoughts they produce in the external

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”

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 #105

Topics covered:

• “From early childhood until he reaches adolescence a person’s external level of thought springs from an affection for knowing”
• “But afterward the way he lives becomes his life’s love… [which stirs up knowledge in his memory to] form his external level of thought.”

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 #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.

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