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Swedenborg says it is impossible to see God’s Providence in the face, as it is happening, but that we can see it when we look back in reflection on the past. In other words, in times of crisis it is very hard to necessarily sense that God is present and working to bring good out […]
We all know that multiple levels of truth can be found within many poems, stories, essays, songs, and speeches. Likewise the parables, allegories and symbols of the bible come alive when read with an understanding of how literal meanings correspond with the spiritual truths folded within them. Within the Christian community it is universally understood […]
The Red Angel In a fit of rage I destroyed his spiral bound book of poetry entitled, Beyond Here There Be Dragons. I was so angry when my life partner, Brice Frederick Adair, passed away February 20th, 2002. Our son, Lucas, was only five years old back then. Thrown into single parenting, I was […]
NJHD #2 “…After the Last Judgment was completed, a New Heaven was created or formed by the Lord. This heaven was formed of all those who, from the coming of the Lord to the present time, had lived the life of faith and charity, since these alone were forms of heaven…. From these things it […]
Swedenborg clarifies an extremely important point about the way God and the world are related: With respect to God: it is impossible for Him to love others and to be loved reciprocally by others in whom there is anything of infinity, that is, anything of the essence and life of love in itself, or anything […]
The 19th day of June is a yearly celebration in traditional New Church congregations. What is it? As a day, its roots go back to theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s notation that on that date, in 1770, a spiritual event occurred – one with great spiritual symbolism. On that date, Swedenborg held that the 12 disciples of […]
Throughout history people have had an intuitive feeling that there is something beyond the very physical and material world in which they live – a spiritual dimension to life in which our deepest feelings and thoughts have a very real existence. Is this spiritual dimension something that is only made real to us on […]