Divine Providence

← Divine Providence · Contents 0. ANGELIC WISDOM CONCERNING THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LATIN AT AMSTERDAM 1764 TRANSLATOR’S NOTE The same aims and methods have been followed in this translation as in the translation of the Apocalypsis Explicata. The defects in previous translations of Swedenborg have arisen mainly from too…

← Divine Providence · Contents 1. ANGELIC WISDOM CONCERNING THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE. THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LORD’S DIVINE LOVE AND DIVINE WISDOM. To understand what the Divine providence is, and that it is the government of the Lord’s Divine love and Divine wisdom, it is important to know what has already…

← Divine Providence · Contents 46. THE LORD’S DIVINE PROVIDENCE LOOKS IN EVERY THING THAT IT DOES TO WHAT IS INFINITE AND ETERNAL. It is known in the Christian world that God is Infinite and Eternal; for in the doctrine of the Trinity that has its name from Athanasius it is said that God the…

← Divine Providence · Contents 91. But very few are able to apprehend intelligently that acknowledgment of the Lord, and an acknowledgment that all that is good and true is from the Lord, are what cause a man to be reformed and regenerated. For it may be thought, What does that acknowledgment do, since the…

← Divine Providence · Contents 136. (3) No one is reformed by threats and punishments, because they compel. It is admitted that the external cannot compel the internal, but that the internal can compel the,. external; also that the internal is so averse to compulsion by the external that it turns itself away. It is…

← Divine Providence · Contents 181. There is a likeness between the spiritual things of the mind and the natural things of the body, because all things of the mind correspond to all things of the body; therefore also the mind actuates the body in externals, and in general with complete control. It moves the…

← Divine Providence · Contents 226. (2) If a man afterwards recedes from these spiritual things and passes over into the opposite he profanes holy things. There are several kinds of profanation of what is holy (which will be treated of under the following head), but this kind is the most grievous of all; for…

← Divine Providence · Contents 274. (4) A doubt may arise in opposition to Divine providence from the fact, that it has not hitherto been known that man lives as a man after death; also that this has not been disclosed before. This has not been known before for the reason that in those who…

← Divine Providence · Contents 316. One’s own prudence persuades and corroborates that every good and truth is from man and in man, because man’s own prudence is his intellectual self (proprium) flowing in from the love of self which is his voluntary self (proprium); and self cannot do otherwise than make all things its…