Thus: The prophet Isaiah was commanded to put off the sackcloth from off his loins, and to put off his shoe from off his foot, and to go naked and barefoot three years (Isa. And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut. Emanuel Swedenborg, né le 29 janvier 1688n 1 à Stockholm et mort le 29 mars 1772 à Londres, est un scientifique, théologien et philosophe suédois du XVIIIe siècle. 2:1-2, 9-11). 21:18-21); for Jerusalem signifies the church as to doctrine. 7:18). "Virgins" signify those who are of the church; "ten," all; "five," some; "lamps," the truths of faith; "oil," the good of love; to "sleep," and to "awake," the life of man in this world which is natural life, and his life after death which is spiritual; to "buy," to procure for themselves; to "go to them that sell and buy oil," to procure for themselves the good of love from others after death; and as this can then be no longer procured, although they came with their lamps and the oil they had bought to the door where the wedding was, yet the bridegroom said to them "I know you not." However, what’s in the book in their hands will depend greatly upon which branch of Christianity they belong to. Besides many other things, it is there shown also that answers were given by variegations of light and a simultaneous tacit perception, or by a living voice. “Gold” signifies the good of love (n. 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9510, 9874, 9881). And as the ultimate is the container and the basis, it is also the support. When these things are comprehended, it is also comprehended that every Divine work is complete and perfect in its ultimate; and likewise that the whole is in the ultimate, which is a trine, because the prior things are together, or simultaneously, in it. 1:14). 0000005961 00000 n THIS doctrine is one of the most comprehensive taught in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. The "poor man Lazarus" means the Gentiles who had not the Word; and that these were despised and scorned by the Jews, is meant by Lazarus lying at the rich man's porch full of sores. [3] That there is not meant a darkening of the sun and moon, nor a falling of the stars to the earth, is very evident from the prophets, in which like things are said about the state of the church when the Lord should come into the world. The external things of the Temple at Jerusalem represented external things of the Word, which belong to the sense of its letter. 20:2-3). iv. But how these things come to pass cannot be told in a few words. The mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem, shall shake her hand. Thus when the blind received sight, it signified that they who had been in ignorance of truth should receive intelligence; when the deaf received hearing, it signified that they who had previously heard nothing about the Lord and the Word should hearken and obey; when the dead were raised, it signified that they who otherwise would spiritually perish would become living; and so on. 13:33). 15-1 Note the careful distinction made by Swedenborg between those knowledges that are merely in the external memory, and those which a man has some real knowledge of by experience or in some other way, and which are therefore not mere matters of memory. He shall come against Aiath; he shall pass to Migron; against Michmash he shall command his arms; they shall pass over Mebara; Gebah shall be a lodging to us; Ramah shall tremble; Gibeah of Saul shall flee. The Word in its glory was represented by the Lord when He was transfigured. 0000006809 00000 n Y��AQHy�s<2#����:���_M�^B0�tZz`9�d��-\;��W�'�h�����p�D���x. Swedenborg several times associates the “wicked” with “malevolence,” defines “malevolence” as “destroying good, ... car la Parole est le Divin Vrai même, Numéros 1-4; la Doctrine de l'Église est tirée de là la Parole, Numéros 50-61: et par la Parole, ... on le voit dans La Doctrine sur le Seigneur 8-11. This is why the Word conjoins man with the Lord, and opens heaven. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. 1112 0 obj <> endobj xref 1112 21 0000000016 00000 n But when he knows what is signified by them, or by their names, he can come out of error into truth. I have been instructed besides that Enoch (of whom mention is made in Genesis 5:21-24) together with his associates, collected correspondences from the lips of those men of the Most Ancient Church, and transmitted the knowledge of them to posterity, and that in consequence of this the science of correspondences was not only known but was also much cultivated in many kingdoms of Asia, especially in the land of Canaan, in Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, Arabia, and also in Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh; and that it was carried over from places on the seacoast there into Greece; but there it was turned into fabulous stories, as is evident from the earliest writers of that country. Or why the prophet Isaiah was commanded To loose the sackcloth from off his loins, and put the shoe from off his foot, and go naked and barefoot three years (Isa. Jesus said, The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (Matt. But the spiritual sense teaches that to "eat the flesh and drink the blood of the sacrifice which the Lord Jehovih will offer upon the mountains of Israel" signifies to appropriate to one's self Divine good and Divine truth from the Word; for the subject treated of is the calling together of all to the Lord's kingdom, and, specifically, the setting up anew of the church by the Lord among the nations. So far we have shown that the Word in the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter, is in its holiness and its fullness. After this there appeared a harlot, and a horse lying dead. A mountain signified the highest heaven; and a hill, the heaven under it. [3] Again in John: If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. 0000029806 00000 n 13:1). 5:1 to end), whose upper part was like a man, and his lower like a fish. Moreover, without the spiritual sense who would know what is signified by all the things pertaining to the Tabernacle, such as the ark, the mercy-seat, cherubim, lampstand, altar of incense, the bread of faces on the table, and its veils and curtains? 28:1). Introductory Remarks. We read in Ezekiel: King of Tyre, thou sealest up thy sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Madmenah shall be a wanderer; the inhabitants of Gebim shall gather themselves together. I have been instructed that the Lord then represented the Word; "His face that did shine as the sun," His Divine good; "His garments that became as the light," His Divine truth; "Moses and Elias," the historical and the prophetical Word; "Moses," the Word that was written by him and the historical Word in general, and "Elias," the prophetical Word; and the "bright cloud that overshadowed the disciples," the Word in the sense of the letter; and therefore a voice was heard from this cloud which said, "This is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." In successive order one thing succeeds and follows another from highest to lowest; but in simultaneous order one thing is next to another from inmost to outmost. And as from its transparency the Word is like this in the sense of the letter, the Word in this sense of the letter is meant by the foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; by the Urim and Thummim in Aaron's ephod; by the garden of Eden in which had been the king of Tyre; by the curtains and veils of the Tabernacle; and by the externals of the Temple at Jerusalem. 4:5). 29:3-9). What the Tabernacle and all things in it represented and signified generally and specifically, has been unfolded in Arcana Coelestia on this chapter of Exodus. Concerning the wall of the New Jerusalem and its foundations we read in Revelation: The angel measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, which was the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. Jesus said unto Peter that he should deny Him thrice (Matt. What the spiritual sense is. And what is thus written is in its ultimate sense written in a style such as is that of the Prophets and Evangelists, which, although it may appear common, yet conceals within it Divine and all angelic wisdom. by John F. Potts [1904] at sacred-texts.com. It has been shown in the work Heaven and Hell (n. 87-105) that all things of nature, and likewise of the human body, and also every single particular in them, correspond to spiritual things. Most Christians don’t think too much about where the Bible came from. 0000005278 00000 n The Four Doctrines were originally published by Emanuel Swedenborg in the city of Amsterdam in the year 1763. The garments of the priesthood or of holiness represented Divine truth from Divine good. From the Lord proceed two things: Divine love, and Divine wisdom (or, what is the same, Divine good, and Divine truth, for Divine good is of His Divine love, and Divine truth is of His Divine wisdom), and in its essence the Word is both of these; and as it conjoins man with the Lord, and opens heaven, it follows that the man who reads it from the Lord, and not from himself alone, is filled by it with the good of love and the truths of wisdom; his will with the good of love, and his understanding with the truths of wisdom. IV DIVINE TRUTH IN THE SENSE OF THE LETTER OF THE WORLD IS IN ITS FULLNESS, IN ITS HOLINESS, AND IN ITS POWER The reason why the Word in the sense of the letter is in its fullness, in its holiness, and in its power, is that the two prior or interior senses, which are called the spiritual and the celestial, are together or simultaneous [sunt simul] in the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter, as was said above (n. 28). 26-1. But the remarkable fact, for the sake of which I am calling special attention to it, is that this Association brought before the public not only a new socialism but a new religion; and that religion was Swedenhorgianism. It is from this that by "three" in the Word in the spiritual sense is meant what is complete and perfect; and also the whole simultaneously. But the Divine truth which must be of doctrine appears to none but those who are in enlightenment from the Lord. The number "144" signifies all the truths and goods of the church derived from doctrine that is drawn from the sense of the letter of the Word. As therefore the Word interiorly is spiritual and celestial, it is written exclusively by correspondences. The Doctrine concerning the Lord and the Doctrine concerning the Holy Scripture were first translated into English by Peter Provo, an Shame upon all faces, and baldness upon all heads (Ezek. The hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, and also the fabulous stories of highest antiquity, were nothing but correspondences. Take for example the parable of the ten virgins: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom; five of them were wise, and five were foolish; they that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil, but the wise took oil in their lamps. The "Son of man" is the Lord as to the Word; the "clouds of heaven" are the Word in the sense of the letter; to "sit at the right hand of God" is omnipotence by means of the Word (as also in Mark 16:19). That at the end of the church the spiritual sense of the Word is to be opened is signified not only by what is said of the white horse and of Him who sat thereon, but also by the great supper to which the angel standing in the sun invited all to come, and to eat the flesh of kings and of captains, of mighty men, of horses, and of them that sat on them, and of all both free and bond. The Lord's power from the ultimate things of truth was represented by the Nazirites in the Jewish Church; and by Samson, of whom it is said that he was a Nazirite from his mother's womb, and that his power lay in his hair. From what has been adduced it is now evident that the sense of the letter of the Word, which is the natural sense, is the basis, container, and support of its interior senses, which are the spiritual and the celestial. As the purses were open, it seemed as if anyone might take out, and even pillage, the silver therein deposited; but near those purses sat two angels as guards. Indeed they are arcana in which are the angels of heaven, and which will be unfolded, so far as can possibly be done, in the treatises mentioned in the preface to Doctrine of the Lord - and which will be from angelic wisdom - on the Divine Providence, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, on Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and On Life. As in the following passages: Isaiah went naked and barefoot three years (Isa. Everywhere in Revelation it is the same. SEIN 4. 19:11-18). This power the Lord took upon Himself, even as to His Divine Human, after He had fulfilled all things of the Word down to its ultimates. CONTENTS (1) The Holy Scripture or the Word is Divine truth itself (nos. It is this sense chiefly which renders the Word spiritual, not for men only, but for angels also; and therefore by means of this sense the Word gives communication with the heavens. 1763 . A "horse" signifies the understanding of the Word; the "white horse," the understanding of truth from the Word in the first state of the church; the "bow" of him who sat upon that horse, the doctrine of charity and faith fighting against falsities; the "crown," eternal life, the prize of victory. On this subject see also below (n. 49). In speaking to His disciples about the consummation of the age (which is the last time of the church), at the end of His predictions concerning the successive changes of state in the church, the Lord says, Immediately after the affliction of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. As in Isaiah: Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, and of wrath of anger; the stars of the heavens, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened in His rising, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine; I will visit upon the world its wickedness (Isa. [3] And as Divine things present themselves in the world by correspondences, the Word has been written exclusively by means of them. And "water" signifies the truth that is in the Word. As these truths are signified by diadems and precious stones, John saw diadems Upon the head of the dragon (Rev. The manger in a stable in which the purses lay, signified spiritual instruction for the understanding - a manger signifies this because the horse that feeds from it signifies the understanding. Emanuel Swedenborg . The Divine which comes down from the Lord to men descends through these three degrees; and when it has come down, it holds these three degrees contained within it. Males, he says, are masculine and females feminine in soul as well as in body. 48:37). Where the Lord is meant, there also is meant the Word, for the Lord is the Word. "Divine proceeding," thus understood, exactly translates Swedenborg's "Divinum procedens." It was also an ordinance for the high priest that he should not shave his head (Lev. CONTENTS (1) All religion is of the life, and the life of religion is to do that which is good (nos. Over de gemeenschap tusschen de ziel en het lichaam : welke men onderstelt plaats te hebben of door natuurlijken invloed, of door geestelijken invloed of door vooraf-vastgestelde overeenstemming Voorburg : Swedenborg Genootschap, 1911. The doctrines of the New Church review and assess the doctrines of earlier churches. After their day, in consequence of the papal dominion, darkness came over all the Christian world; and they who are of that dominion, and have confirmed themselves in its falsities, neither can nor will apprehend anything spiritual, nor consequently what is the correspondence in the Word of natural things with spiritual. TORSE 5. The reason is that after his life in this world a man remains such as he had lived in this world. Though there is a wide variety in the types of worship services offered by the various Swedenborgian groups, many traditional Christians find themselves quite comfortable in the atmosphere of a Swedenborgian congregation. Moreover, all the miracles related in the Word contain in them such things as belong to the Lord, to heaven, and to the church. 29 January] 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish pluralistic -Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. 1-8) (2) No one can from himself do what is good that is really good (9-17) (3) IV DIVINE TRUTH IN THE SENSE OF THE LETTER OF THE WORLD IS IN ITS FULLNESS, IN ITS HOLINESS, AND IN ITS POWER The reason why the Word in the sense of the letter is in its fullness, in its holiness, and in its power, is that the two prior or interior senses, which are called the spiritual and the celestial, are together or simultaneous [sunt simul] in the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter… Henry de Geymuller: Notice sommaire sur la vie et les écrits d'E. … As, in its inmost bosom, from its celestial sense, our Word is like a flame that enkindles; and as, in its middle bosom, from its spiritual sense, it is like a light that enlightens; it follows that in its ultimate bosom, from its natural sense which has within it the two more interior senses, the Word is like a ruby and a diamond; like a ruby from its celestial flame, and like a diamond from its spiritual light. The "becoming" of a thing is its being taking form. One who does not know from the spiritual sense what is signified by a sacrifice, by flesh and blood, by a horse, a chariot, a mighty man, and a man of war, would suppose that such things were to be eaten and drunk. COMPILATION BY NOYES 1867 THE foremost and brightest of the Fourieristic Associations was that at Brook Farm. 0000004303 00000 n "That the outside may be clean also" means that in this way, exterior things, which are the actions and the conversation, will have been made pure, for these derive their essence from the interior things. How great and of what nature is the power of Divine truth in the heavens and also on earth, is evident from what has been said in Heaven and Hell concerning the power of the angels of heaven (n. 228-233). The Tabernacle represented heaven and the church, and therefore the form of it was shown by Jehovah upon Mount Sinai. The truths of the sense of the letter of the Word are in part not naked truths, but appearances of truth, and are as it were likenesses and comparisons taken from things such as exist in nature, and thus accommodated and adapted to the apprehension of the simple and of little children. This is why, as He Himself says, there is Life in His words, that He is the Light which enlightens, and that He is the Truth. [2] Concerning these we read in Moses: They shall make the ephod of [gold], hyacinthine blue, and bright crimson, of scarlet double dyed, and fine linen intertwined. Can this be Divine? So in a thousand other passages in the prophets. That is called the celestial which proceeds from His Divine love, and is Divine good; that is called the SPIRITUAL which proceeds from His Divine wisdom, and is Divine truth; the NATURAL is from both, being their complex in the ultimate. 24:29-31). Consequently in Egypt and elsewhere there were images of calves, oxen, serpents, also of children, old men, maidens; because calves and oxen signified affections and powers of the natural man; serpents, the sagacity of the sensuous man; children, innocence and charity; old men, wisdom; and maidens, affections of truth; and so on. In Revelation, chapter 7, it is said: That there were sealed one hundred and forty-four thousand-twelve thousand of each tribe of Israel-of the tribe of Judah, of the tribe of Reuben, of Gad, of Asher, of Naphtali, of Manasseh, of Simeon, of Levi, of Issachar, of Zebulon, of Joseph, and of Benjamin (Rev. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns, and He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself, and He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God. There is no form of life that is not in some way related to it; for all things created by the Lord from highest to lowest, from firsts to lasts, are forms of uses: they were created "from use, … Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Emmanuel Swedenborg books online. The harlot, together with the dead horse, signified the falsification of the Word by many of this day, whereby all understanding of truth perishes. Between 1749 and 1771 the Swede Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) wrote and published eighteen religious works in Latin that he claimed were the foundation of a new Christian religion. Nor does he consider that the Lord, who is the same as Jehovah, spoke the Word that is in the Gospels, much of it with His own mouth, and the rest from the spirit of His mouth, which is the Holy Spirit. A fountain of salvation (Isa. 39:17-21). That this was the case is clearly evident from the fact that they did not acknowledge the Lord, although universal holy Scripture prophesied concerning Him, and foretold His advent; and they rejected Him for this sole reason - that He taught of a heavenly and not an earthly kingdom; for they wanted a Messiah who would exalt them above every other nation in the world, and not a Messiah who cared for their eternal salvation. It is sufficient that it be known from that source that there is a spiritual sense in each several particular of the description, like a soul in its body; and that without this sense nothing of the church would be understood in the things there written; such as that the city was of pure gold; that its gates were of pearls; its wall of jasper; the foundations of its wall of precious stones; that its wall was of a hundred and forty-four cubits, which is the measure of a man, that is, of an angel; and that the city itself was twelve thousand furlongs in length, breadth, and height; and so on. It is there shown that the "curtains" and "veils" represented external things of heaven and the church, and therefore of the Word; and that "fine linen" signified truth from a spiritual origin; "hyacinthine blue," truth from a celestial origin; "bright crimson," celestial good; "scarlet double dyed," spiritual good; and "cherubim," guards of the interior things of the Word. What the spiritual sense is. 10:26-32, 34). And so The prophet Ezekiel was commanded to pass a barber's razor upon his head and upon his beard, and to burn a third part in the midst of the city, to smite a third part with the sword, and to scatter a third part in the wind, and to wrap a few of the hairs in his skirts, and at last to cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them (Ezek. For, in the spiritual sense, the "sun, which shall be darkened" means the Lord as to love; the "moon, which shall not give her light" means the Lord as to faith; the "stars, which shall fall from heaven" means the knowledges of what is good and true that would perish; the "sign of the Son of man in heaven" means the appearing of Divine truth; the "tribes of the earth, which shall wail" means the lack of all truth that is of faith, and of all good that is of love; the "coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven with power and glory" means the Lord's presence in the Word, and revelation; "clouds" signify the sense of the letter of the Word, and "glory," the spiritual sense of the Word; the "angels with a trumpet and a great voice" signifies heaven whence comes Divine truth; to "gather together the elect from the four winds, from the end of the heavens even to the end of them" signifies a newness of the church in respect to love and faith.
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