The Lords church is spread over the whole globe, and so is universal. All who live a good life according to their own religious belief are members of it. Heaven is of such a nature that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. .....The more nearly you are connected to the Lord, the more distinctly you appear to yourself to be the master of yourself, and yet the more clearly you recognize that you are the Lords. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Sum up all things you know and submit them to careful inspection, and in some elevation of spirit search for the universal of all things, and you cannot conclude otherwise than that it is Love and Wisdom. For these are the two essentials of all things of mans life; everything of that life, civil, moral, and spiritual, hinges upon these two, and apart from these two is nothing. It is the same with all things of the life of the composite Man, which is a society, larger or smaller, a kingdom, am empire, a church, and also the angelic heaven.Take away love and wisdom from these, and consider whether they be anything, and you will find that apart from love and wisdom as their origin they are nothing. Love together with wisdom in its very essence is in God. This no one can deny; for God loves everyone from love in Himself, and leads everyone from wisdom in Himself. The created universe, too, viewed in relation to its order, is so full of wisdom coming forth from love that all things in the aggregate may be said to be wisdom itself. For things limitless are in such order, successively and simultaneously, that taken together they make a one. It is from this; and this alone, that they can be held together and continually preserved.
1. Introduction 2. The Gate and the Way 3. The Law and the Prophets 4. The Yoke and the Burden 5. The Word and the Doer 6. The Vine and the Branches 7. Salvation This Day
I. Spiritual Man Genesis 1 5 II. Manifest Man Genesis 2 17 III. The Fall of Man - Genesis 3, 4, and 5 25 VI. The Reaction to Sense Living - Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 42 V. The Initial Step toward Redemption - Genesis 12, 13, and 14 67 VI. The Promise of Salvation - Genesis 15, 16, 17, and 18 81 VII. The Fruits of Faith - Genesis 19, 20, 21, and 22 95 VIII. The Mental Supplants the Physical - Genesis 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28 109 IX. Man Develops Spiritual Faculties - Genesis 29, 30, and 31 135 X. The Spiritual Gains Precedence of the Mental - Genesis 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 150 XI. Joseph a Type of the Christ - Genesis 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41 175 XII. The I AM and Its Faculties in the Body - Genesis 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46 194 XIII. The Blessing of the Faculties - Genesis 47, 48, 49, and 50 214
The Lords church is spread over the whole globe, and so is universal. All who live a good life according to their own religious belief are members of it. Heaven is of such a nature that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. .....The more nearly you are connected to the Lord, the more distinctly you appear to yourself to be the master of yourself, and yet the more clearly you recognize that you are the Lords. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
