TEMPTATION (pt. 5)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
TEMPTATION
(pt. 5)

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The dominion of good over evil, or of evil over good is contended for

These combats are carried on by the truths of faith which are from the Word.  From these, man must combat against evils and falsities; for if he combats from any other principles, he cannot conquer, because in other principles the Lord is not present.

Because this combat is carried on by the truths of faith, therefore man is not admitted into it until he is in the knowledges of good and truth, and has thence obtained some spiritual life; therefore such combats do not take place till man has arrived at years of maturity.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 191)

TEMPTATION (pt. 4)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
TEMPTATION
(pt. 4)

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In temptations, the dominion of good over evil, or of evil over good, is contended for. Evil which wills to have dominion, is in the natural or external man, and good is in the spiritual or internal man. If evil conquers, the natural man has dominion; if good conquers, the spiritual has dominion.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 190)

TEMPTATION (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
TEMPTATION
(pt. 3)

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Interior anxieties are also experienced by those who are not in goods and truths; but they are natural, not spiritual anxieties; the two are distinguished by this, that natural anxieties have worldly things for their objects, but spiritual anxieties, heavenly things.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 189)

TEMPTATION (pt. 2)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
TEMPTATION
(pt. 2)

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There are both evil and good spirits with every man; the evil spirits are in his evils, and the good spirits in his goods. When the evil spirits approach, they draw forth his evils, while the good spirits, on the contrary, draw forth his goods; whence arise collision and combat, from which the man has interior anxiety, which is temptation. Hence it is plain that temptations are not induced by heaven, but by hell; which is also the faith of the church, which teaches that God tempts no one.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 188)

TEMPTATION (pt. 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
TEMPTATION
(pt. 1)

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Those only who are being regenerated, undergo spiritual temptations; for spiritual temptations are pains of mind induced by evil spirits, with those who are in goods and truths. While those spirits excite the evils which are with them, there arises the anxiety of temptation. Man does not know whence this anxiety comes, because he does not know this origin.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 187)

REGENERATION (pt. 10)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REGENERATION
(pt. 10)

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The man who is regenerated is, as to his internal man, in heaven, and is an angel there with the angels, among whom he also comes after death; he is then able to live the life of heaven, to love the Lord, to love the neighbor, to understand truth, to relish good, and to perceive the happiness thence derived.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 182)

REGENERATION (pt. 9)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REGENERATION
(pt. 9)

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The internal man is first regenerated by the Lord, and afterwards the external, and the latter by means of the former. For the internal man is regenerated by thinking those things which are of faith and charity, but the external by a life according to them. This is meant by the words of the Lord:

Unless anyone be begotten of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:5).

"Water," in the spiritual sense, is the truth of faith, and "the spirit" is a life according to it

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 181)