Next. 201 250 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 201. (4) Heretofore the spiritual sense of the Word has been unknown. That each thing and all things in nature correspond to spiritual things, and in like manner each and all things...
Next. 601 650 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 601. VIII. THE REGENERATED MAN HAS A NEW WILL AND A NEW UNDERSTANDING. The church of today knows both from the Word and from reason that a regenerated man is a renewed or new m...
Next. 751 800 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 751. When all had assembled, the priest ascended the pulpit and preached a sermon full of the spirit of wisdom. It was a sermon about the holiness of the Sacred Scripture, ...
Next. 351 400 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 351. (2) The Truths of Faith are disposed into Series, thus, as it were into bundles. This has been hitherto unknown. It is unknown because the spiritual truths of which the whole Word is...
Next. 401 450 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 401. (5) The internal and external man. 1. Man was created so as to be at the same time in the spiritual world and in the natural world. The spiritual world is where angels are...
Next. 1 50 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 1. THE FAITH OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND OF THE NEW CHURCH This faith is first set forth in a universal and in a particular form, that it may serve as a preface set before the work that follows...
Next. 801 850 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 801. And the reason why the Dutch occupy those quarters of the Christian center is that business is their final love, and money a mediate love subservient thereto; and such a love is...
Next. 701 750 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 701. Without the opened spiritual sense of the Word, or what is the same, without a revelation of the correspondence of natural with spiritual things, the holiness of the sacrament here...
Title Page. Part 1 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] True Christian Religion by Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally published in 1771. Translated by John Whitehead, 1906. Etext prepared by Theodore D. Webber (doug [email protected]), 2007.
Next. 301 350 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 301. THE THIRD COMMANDMENT. REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR AND DO ALL THY WORK; BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF JEHOVAH THY GOD. This is...
Next. 51 100 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 51. Since in the Word justice [or righteousness] is predicated of love, and judgment of wisdom, I will cite some passages to show that it is by means of these two that God's government is...
Next. 451 500 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 451. All charity that is not conjoined with faith in one God in whom is a Divine trinity, is spurious like the charity of the present church, the faith of which is a faith in successive...
Next. 101 150 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 101. (7) Thus God became Man and Man became God in one Person. That Jehovah God became Man, and Man became God in one Person, follows as a conclusion from all the preceding propositions...
Title Page : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 851. I foresee that many who read the Memorable Relations annexed to the chapters in this work will believe them to be inventions of the imagination. But I affirm in truth that they are...
Next. 501 550 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 501. It is asked at the present day, why miracles do not take place as formerly; for it is believed that if they were to occur, there would come from everyone a hearty acknowledgment. But...
Next. 651 700 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 651. All reason agrees that the Lord cannot do evil to any man, consequently that He cannot impute evil to man; for He is Love itself and Mercy itself, thus Good itself; and these belong...
Next. 251 300 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 251. It would be tedious to show from the Word that there are such dual expressions in the Word, which seem like repetitions of the same thing, for to do so would fill many pages. But...
Next. 551 600 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 551. 560. To adore as God some vicar on earth, or to invoke as God some saint, has no more weight in heaven than to make supplication to the sun, moon, and stars, or to ask for a response...
Next. 151 200 : * "True Christian Religion", by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1771], tr. by John C. Ager [1906] TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 151. Believing in the Lord is not merely acknowledging Him but also doing His commandments; for simply acknowledging Him is solely a matter of thought, arising from somewh...