May 11, 2019

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 4)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 4)


Governors over those things with men which relate to heaven, or over ecclesiastical affairs, are called priests, and their office is called the priesthood. But governors over those things with men which relate to the world, or over civil affairs, are called magistrates, and their chief, where such a form of government prevails, is called king.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 314)

May 10, 2019

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 3)


There must ... be governors to keep the assemblages of men in order, who should be skilled in the law, wise, and who fear God.

There must also be order among the governors, lest anyone, from caprice or ignorance, should permit evils which are contrary to order, and thereby destroy it.

This is guarded against when there are superior and inferior governors, among whom there is subordination.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 313)

May 9, 2019

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 2)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 2)


Order cannot be maintained in the world without governors, who are to observe all things which are done according to order, and which are done contrary to order; and who are to reward those who live according to order, and punish those who live contrary to order.

If this be not done, the human race will perish; for the will to command others, and to possess the goods of others, from heredity is connate with everyone, whence proceed enmities, envyings, hatreds, revenges, deceits, cruelties, and many other evils.

Wherefore, unless they were kept under restraint by the laws, and by rewards suited to their loves, which are honors and gains for those who do goods; and by punishments contrary to those loves, which are the loss of honors, of possessions, and of life, for those who do evils; the human race would perish.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 312)

May 8, 2019

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 1)


There are two things which ought to be in order with men, namely, the things which are of heaven, and the things which are of the world. The things which are of heaven are called ecclesiastical, and those which are of the world are called civil.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 311)

May 7, 2019

THE LORD (pt. 18)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
THE LORD
(pt. 18)


That there is a Trine in the Lord, namely, the Divine itself, the Divine Human, and the Divine proceeding, is an arcanum from heaven, and is for those who will be in the Holy Jerusalem.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 297)

May 6, 2019

THE LORD (pt. 17)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
THE LORD
(pt. 17)


The first and primary principle of the church is, to know and acknowledge its God; for without that knowledge and acknowledgment there is no conjunction; thus, in the church, without the acknowledgment of the Lord.

This the Lord teaches in John:
He who believeth in the Son hath eternal life, but he who believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God abideth with him (3:36).

And in another place:
Except ye believe that I am, ye shall die in your sins (8:24).
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 296)

May 5, 2019

THE LORD (pt. 16)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
THE LORD
(pt. 16)


When the Lord fully glorified His Human, He then put off the human from the mother, and put on the Human from the Father, which is the Divine Human, wherefore He was then no longer the son of Mary.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 295)