True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1
wisdom and divine life. Our earthly self evaluates the Word on the basis of style and does not see those qualities in its style. ...
2 The Word Has a Spiritual Meaning That Has Not Been Known until Now Because the Word is divine, it has a spiritual core. When w ...
5. From this point on, the spiritual meaning will be given only to peo- ple who have genuine truths from the Lord. 6. The Word h ...
emanating from the Lord that is called spiritual, for they have divine wis- dom from the Lord. The angels of the Lord’s earthly ...
[ 2 ] For what each detail means spiritually, see the explanations in Rev- elation Unveiled 820 – 838. See also the small work W ...
All these details need to be understood spiritually, as we can see from the fact that the New Jerusalem means a new church that ...
see angels with trumpets. Instead, the individual words there have spiri- tual meanings that relate to the church. The details t ...
the church, or any knowledge of the Lord, which is why it is called a day of darkness and blackness. The Lord spoke in correspon ...
and the oil they had purchased to the door where the wedding was taking place, the bridegroom told them, “I do not know you.” Th ...
spiritual meaning cannot help believing that those actual things are what is meant. They do not know that a garden, a grove, and ...
work Heaven and Hell,§§ 87 – 115. No one has known until now, however, what correspondenceis. In the earliest times, corresponde ...
developed, especially in the land of Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, and Arabia; and in Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh. From t ...
All these actions that the Philistines undertook on the recommenda- tion of their diviners were correspondences. This clearly sh ...
of wisdom and intelligence. For example, an olive tree meant good actions that come from love, while a grapevine meant the true ...
because of the Nicene Council’s decisions and decrees about three divine persons from eternity and the person of Christ being th ...
we could pervert the spiritual meaning and even divert it to support something false. This would be a violent attack on divine t ...
was shining when he carried the tablets of the covenant down from Mount Sinai [Exodus 34 : 29 – 30 ]. [ 3 ] In addition, there a ...
3 The Word’s Literal Meaning Is the Foundation, the Container, and the Structural Support for Its Spiritual and Heavenly Meaning ...
said to Peter that Peter would deny him three times(Matthew 26 : 34 ). Jesus said to Peter three times,“Do you love me?” (John 2 ...
In fact, without its literal meaning the Word would be like a human body without the coverings called the skin and membranes or ...
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