Emanuel Swedenborg
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:39 am
Hello,
My name is Harry. I am a member of the New Church. The doctrines of this church is base on the wrtings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg was Science before the calling.
Everything in the natural world is a correspondence to the spiritual world. The natural behavior of animals corresponds to the affections of man. If the person is good, they are called a sheep, if evil, a wolf
Thunder correspondences to a battle and clash of arguments between two persons, with one side speaking in favour of God, the other of nature. Bad weather comes because of man's evil thoughts and affections and false ideas about God. Floods: for in the Word "floods of waters" and "rains," and also "tempests of wind," signify temptations. Parts of LA will fall into the ocean if the people don't change their ways.
It is important to understand that future of the planet and humanity ripens from a causal or "karmic" chain of consequences that originate in human thoughts and affections. The near future is a tightly articulated field of probabilities whose outcomes can be altered in a major way only by extreme transformation in the present, while the far future can be radically changed by small transformations consistently applied--not unlike navigation on the high seas. Human thought and action create the physical and noetic environments that produce chains of events and probable outcomes. Human beings do not yet realize their continual influence upon natural events such as earth changes, climate, and weather.
Often an outcome that flows from a strong current depends upon a critical area of human thought and action. For example, according to Scripture, the prophet Jonah was forced against his will to prophesy doom to the city of Ninevah because the inhabitants were in great need of "repentance," or nacham, literally "submission" to the Higher Nature. In other words, the culture of the city was devolutionary and immoral. But after he delivered his prophecy of doom, the people were deeply affected and made major reform efforts. Consequently, the disasters Jonah had prophesied did not manifest. At the end of the Book of Jonah, the prophet complains to God that now he looks like a charlatan because doom did not befall the city to vindicate his prophecies. God replies that the response of the people averted disaster, and the prophet should rejoice.
Harry
My name is Harry. I am a member of the New Church. The doctrines of this church is base on the wrtings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg was Science before the calling.
Everything in the natural world is a correspondence to the spiritual world. The natural behavior of animals corresponds to the affections of man. If the person is good, they are called a sheep, if evil, a wolf
Thunder correspondences to a battle and clash of arguments between two persons, with one side speaking in favour of God, the other of nature. Bad weather comes because of man's evil thoughts and affections and false ideas about God. Floods: for in the Word "floods of waters" and "rains," and also "tempests of wind," signify temptations. Parts of LA will fall into the ocean if the people don't change their ways.
It is important to understand that future of the planet and humanity ripens from a causal or "karmic" chain of consequences that originate in human thoughts and affections. The near future is a tightly articulated field of probabilities whose outcomes can be altered in a major way only by extreme transformation in the present, while the far future can be radically changed by small transformations consistently applied--not unlike navigation on the high seas. Human thought and action create the physical and noetic environments that produce chains of events and probable outcomes. Human beings do not yet realize their continual influence upon natural events such as earth changes, climate, and weather.
Often an outcome that flows from a strong current depends upon a critical area of human thought and action. For example, according to Scripture, the prophet Jonah was forced against his will to prophesy doom to the city of Ninevah because the inhabitants were in great need of "repentance," or nacham, literally "submission" to the Higher Nature. In other words, the culture of the city was devolutionary and immoral. But after he delivered his prophecy of doom, the people were deeply affected and made major reform efforts. Consequently, the disasters Jonah had prophesied did not manifest. At the end of the Book of Jonah, the prophet complains to God that now he looks like a charlatan because doom did not befall the city to vindicate his prophecies. God replies that the response of the people averted disaster, and the prophet should rejoice.
Harry