How the Divine Good of the Lord’s Divine Love is accommodated to reception

Subjects of Study

• Church
  • Basis of the Church
  • Evangelization
  • Influence and popularity considerations
  • Jewish Church
    • high priests, scribes, pharisees, lawyers vs. Judas
  • Prosperity and membership considerations
  • The direction in which the church should go
• Commandments
  • Ten Commandments
  • Two great commandments
• Comparative theology
• Conjugial Love (Married Love, Marital Love, Conjugal Love)
  • Conjugial love and the love of uses
  • Diagrams illustrating conjunction between husband and wife on different levels
  • Divorce
  • Family
  • How the man regards his wife when he doesn't come into the love of growing wise
  • If one is not married, on what he/she is spiritually dependent
  • Inmost becoming a form of the true, being in the affection of the true (of her husband or/and of the Church) as the primary concern for a woman, and not the things of love and of life
  • Opposites to Conjugial Love
    • Abortion
    • Adultery
      • Divorce
      • Homosexuality
      • Sexual disorders
      • Sodomy
      • Sodomy, Homosexuality
  • Personal love issues
  • Relation of intellectual and voluntary in the marriage of man and woman in the church
  • Relation of man and woman in the church
  • Sexual intercourse
  • Sirens
  • The love of growing wise as the primary end for a man, and not the rational understanding of the Word, Doctrine and intellectual things in general
  • Turning away from charity alone to the internal true
  • Turning away from faith alone to the love of growing wise
  • What to do, when one partner is spiritual, and the other natural
  • When the man regards the true of the understanding as the essential, and the woman regards the things of what she calls life and love, as the essential, conjugial love is not possible
• De Hemelsche Leer
  • General Summary of De Hemelsche Leer
  • summary of De Hemelsche Leer
• Deseases-misfortunes-suffering
• Doctrine out of the Word
  • acquiring doctrine in false way
  • Basis for the Genuine Doctrine
  • Betrayal of the Doctrine by the love of self
  • Birth of the Doctrine with man
  • Doctrine null and void when consulting one’s rational
  • Doctrine which is Spiritual out of Celestial origin
    • How genuine doctrine comes into existence
  • Innocence and the doctrine
  • Love for the Word and the Doctrine, true and false
  • misuse and abuse of the Doctrine
  • One man principle (see also Conjugial Love)
  • Relation of the internal and external sense in the Doctrine
  • Taking apparent goods and truths, in which lie interior evils, as genuine goods and truths
  • Those who are in the interior things of the Word and Doctrine and do not humble themselves and look to the Lord
• Drugs
• Enemies
  • Internal enemies
• Enlightenment
  • Reason the lack of the enlightenment
• Faith
  • Trust in the Lord
• Fear
  • holy fear
• Freedom
  • State of spiritual freedom
• Good and true
  • Reception and appropriation
• Heavens
  • Imaginary heaven
    • Manifesting the quality of the imaginary heaven with a man
• History
  • Christian Church and Civilization
    • Causes of decline
• Human
  • Truly human and animal things with a man
  • two humans with a man
• Ideas
• Instincts
  • Appeal to man’s better instincts
• Introduction into the True Christian Religion
• Judging
• Life and Morality
  • Abortion
  • Attacking others
  • Being led by the Lord vs. being led by the devil
  • Bitterness
  • Criticizing others
  • Cunning and deceit
    • Cunning and deceit against the truth
    • Cunning of the love of self hiding man's internal evils from the conscious mind
    • Deceitful weakening of the force of the truth and its judgment
    • Internal deceit together with outward honesty, sincerity and straightforwardness
    • The internal cause of cunning and deceit
    • When the friendliness and tolerance is deceptive
  • Despisal of others in comparison with oneself
  • Drugs
  • Evils
    • Root of evil
    • Without overcoming natural evils we never come to combat interior evils
  • Feeling of one's own spiritual superiority over others
  • Forgiveness, true and false
  • Hatred, Revenge, Enmity, Anger
    • Distinguishing anger from just indignation in oneself
    • Hating the truth in which there is true judgment
    • Hating the truth, or the one who is in the truth
    • Hatred and revenge against the truth
    • Inward causes of speaking ill of others
    • The internal cause of hatred and revenge
  • Innocence
    • Coming to a natural innocence
    • Natural innocence and spiritual innocence
    • When a man deprives others of innocence
  • Loosing one's life
  • Love of domineering
  • Love of reputation
  • Love of self
    • Betrayal of the Doctrine by the love of self
    • Essence of the love of self, longing to be loved by others with the unregenerate man
    • Humbled love of self
    • Intermediate/mediate love of self
    • Love of self in relation to those in the Church and to those outside of the church
    • Manifestation of the evil of the love of self
    • Three kinds of the love of self
    • Turning things of the Word, the Doctrine, and the Church to favor one's love of self
  • Loves that must be changed, ordered, and properly subordinated
  • Merit
    • Merit in works
  • Misusing the truth by turning it to one's own ends
  • Moral and civil things of one’s occupation
  • murder
  • Nourishing spiritual body
  • Pride
    • man's pride in his intelligence
    • Pride in one's own intelligence
    • pride with different classes of persons and with different occupations
    • woman's pride in her intuition
  • Regeneration
    • Regeneration of the Rational and the Natural
      • Rational alone vs. natural alone
  • Resentment
    • resenting the lack of gratitude
  • Ruling love
    • Changing and perfecting the ruling loves of the members of the church
    • Classes of ruling love
    • How to discover one's own ruling love
    • One's ruling love being touched and threatened
    • The love of ruling in the things of the Church appearing as a great love for the Church
  • Seduction
  • Self-condifence
  • Self-exploration, self-examination
  • Self-humiliation
  • Sexual intercourse
  • Sincerity
  • Stealing
    • Attribution of goods and truths to oneself
    • Claiming what is spiritual for one's rational
    • Evil and false claiming to themselves what is the Lord's with a man (judas)
    • More interior spiritual theft
    • Robbing the Lord of His Word in one's mind
    • Stealing of goods and truths, with a man and with a woman
    • Stealing the things from the Word and the Doctrine
    • Theft of using the rational to confirm goods and truths as one's own
  • Unworthiness
  • Violence
• Lord
  • Birth of the Lord
  • Christmas
  • Divine Human
    • Presence of the Divine Human in the human of man
  • Divine Intercession
  • First Coming
  • Glorification of the Human
    • glorification of the Human things of the Lord with a man
  • Heaven of Human Internals
  • Human of the Church
  • Lord's birth in man
  • Lord's coming to a man
  • Merely human
  • Second Coming
  • Sun of Heaven
  • Visible Human
• Male and Female (see also Conjugial Love)
  • Male and Female propriums
  • Male and Female spiritual and natural differences
• Man and Woman (see Conjugial Love)
• Natural
  • Merely natural vs. genuine natural
  • New Natural
  • Receiving the goods of the natural
• New Church
  • Catholic disposition in the New Church
  • New Church history
    • Doctrinal Views of the Other Bodies of the New Church
      • Convention and Conference
    • Early Academy
    • History of the Lord's New Church
      • Analysis of opinions about the Lord's New Church
      • Audio history
  • New Church social life, true and false
  • Protestant disposition in the New Church
  • Where the Hova Hierosolyma dwells with men
• Prayer
  • Lord's Prayer from the New Testament
  • prayer, acceptable and not acceptable
• Priesthood
  • Pride and vanity of the priesthood
• Proprium or One's own
• Providence
  • Thankfulness and opposition to the Divine Providence
  • Three operations of the Divine Providence, from within and from without
• Rational
  • Consulting one's rational
  • Rational as the vessel for the spiritual
• Real, substantial
  • Real vs. unsubstantial
• Repentance
• Series of sermons or doctrinal classes
  • Series of Sermons on the Ten Commandments
  • Series on Conjugial Love
• Spiritual wealth
  • Spending spiritual wealth on vulgar display
  • Squandering spiritual wealth in fantastic spiritual pleasures
• Swedenborg
• Temptations
  • Spiritual temptations and natural temptations
• Translation issues
• Truth
  • Misusing the truth by turning it to one's own ends
  • Truth in the memory vs. truth in the life
• Unfinished business
• Use
  • Moral and civil things of one’s occupation
  • Natural uses as foundation for spiritual uses
  • When the natural use becomes a dead body, and the spiritual use a ghost
• Wisdom
  • Wordly wisdom appearing as brilliant intelligence vs. wisdom, which is a gift from the Lord
• Word
  • Causes of misunderstanding of the Word
  • Divine Revelation as the Word
  • Explanation of the Word
    • Earths in the Universe
  • Love for the Word and the Doctrine, true and false
  • misuse and abuse of the Word
  • Natural sense of the Word
    • Genuine natural sense
    • Literal sense seen from within and from without
  • Reading of the Word
    • How to read the Word to understand it
    • The genuine and the false reading of the Word
  • Relation of the internal and external sense in the Word
  • simple truths
  • Spiritual sense of the Word
    • Genuine spiritual sense
  • Word compared with Doctrine