The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 176. Man continually inclines to, and lapses into, what he derives from heredity: hence he confirms with himself that evil, and also superadds more from himself. These evils are altogether contrary to spiritual life; they destroy it; wherefore, unless man receives new life, which is…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 201. Of the Lord’s temptations. The Lord beyond all others* endured the most grievous and dreadful temptations, which are but little described in the sense of the letter of the Word, but much in the internal sense (n. 1663, 1668, 1787, 2776, 2786, 2795, 2814,…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 226. This continuation of life is meant by the resurrection. The reason why men believe that they will not rise again before the Last Judgment, when the whole visible world will perish, is because they have not understood the Word, and because sensual men place…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 251. Since therefore man lives after death, and then lives to eternity, and a life awaits him according to his love and faith, it follows that the Divine, out of love towards the human race, has revealed such things as may lead to that life,…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 276. Of Providence. Providence is the government of the Lord in the heavens and on the earth (n. 10773). The Lord, from providence, rules all things according to order, and thus providence is government according to order (n. 1755, 2447). And He rules all things…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 301. The Lord from His Human subjugated the hells when He was in the world. The Lord, when He was in the world, subjugated all the hells, and He then reduced all things to order both in the heavens and in the hells (n. 4075,…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 0. The New Jerusalem and It’s Heavenly Doctrine. Emanuel Swedenborg · English translation by John Whitehead · Source edition · German edition. Back to contents · Next →

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 1. THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH, AND WHAT IS MEANT BY THE NEW JERUSALEM. It is written in the Apocalypse: I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. And I saw…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 26. Of the various kinds of goods and truths. There is an infinite variety, and one thing is never exactly the same as another (n. 7236, 9002). There is also an infinite variety in the heavens (n. 684, 690, 3744, 5598, 7236). Varieties in the…

← The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine · Contents 51. Of sciences and knowledges, by which the internal spiritual man is opened. Those things are called scientifics, which are in the external or natural man, and its memory, but not those which are in the internal or spiritual man (n. 3019, 3020, 3293, 3309,…