Swedenborg. The understanding of his works. Practical learning. » Ideas https://newchurch.net Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all things shall be added unto you (Matt. 6:33) Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Interview of Bishop P. Odhner to Mr. Prescott Rogers https://newchurch.net/interview-of-bishop-p-odhner-to-mr-prescott-rogers/ https://newchurch.net/interview-of-bishop-p-odhner-to-mr-prescott-rogers/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:15:12 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=1254   You can download the text of the interview of Bishop P. Odhner to Mr. Prescott Rogers

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]]> https://newchurch.net/interview-of-bishop-p-odhner-to-mr-prescott-rogers/feed/ 0 Most of the available sermons and doctrinal classes of Rev. Theodore Pitcairn https://newchurch.net/most-of-the-available-sermons-of-rev-theodore-pitcairn/ https://newchurch.net/most-of-the-available-sermons-of-rev-theodore-pitcairn/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:37:27 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=1245   You can download a lot of Sermons of Rev. Theodore Pitcairn (archive, around 1GB) You can download a lot of Doctrinal Classes of Rev. Theodore Pitcairn (archive, 200MB)

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]]> https://newchurch.net/most-of-the-available-sermons-of-rev-theodore-pitcairn/feed/ 0 Sermons of Rev. Edward Hyatt from 1896.08.16 till 1902.11.09 https://newchurch.net/sermons-of-rev-edward-hyatt-from-1896-08-16-till-1902-11-09/ https://newchurch.net/sermons-of-rev-edward-hyatt-from-1896-08-16-till-1902-11-09/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:33:53 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=1231   – these sermons are the more practice-oriented follow-up to his Sermons on the Word Read the sermons of Rev. Edward Hyatt from 1896.08.16 till 1902.11.09

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]]> https://newchurch.net/sermons-of-rev-edward-hyatt-from-1896-08-16-till-1902-11-09/feed/ 0 The Latin Word (the Writings of Swedenborg) is dead. Do you not believe it? See for yourself https://newchurch.net/the-writings-of-swedenborg-dead/ https://newchurch.net/the-writings-of-swedenborg-dead/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:30:42 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=1100   “It was said by the angels that the Word of the Lord is a dead letter; but that in him that reads it is vivified by the Lord according to the capacity of each one; and that it becomes living according to the life of his charity and his state of innocence, and this […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/the-writings-of-swedenborg-dead/feed/ 0 Believing one’s ideas to be merely human https://newchurch.net/merely-human-ideas/ https://newchurch.net/merely-human-ideas/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:47:30 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=440   It may be better for a man to believe that his ideas are merely human and his own than out of vanity to ascribe ideas that are of his own concoction to God and therefore to regard them as Divine. A man should, however, progress until he comes to acknowledge that all the truth […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/merely-human-ideas/feed/ 0 Elimination of pride https://newchurch.net/elimination-of-pride/ https://newchurch.net/elimination-of-pride/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:34:04 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=256   Spiritual Experiences 170. On the Punishment of pride, i.e. of trust in oneself From actual experience I was allowed by God the Messiah’s mercy to learn how self-trust is punished by the pain of dejection. There was deep grief, unceasing lamentation, accompanied by near despair of any salvation. But I did observe that in […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/elimination-of-pride/feed/ 0 How the Divine Good of the Lord’s Divine Love is accommodated to reception https://newchurch.net/how-the-divine-good-of-the-lords-divine-love-is-accommodated-to-reception/ https://newchurch.net/how-the-divine-good-of-the-lords-divine-love-is-accommodated-to-reception/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:25:46 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=184 How the Divine Good of the Lord’s Divine Love is accommodated to reception cannot be known by any one not even by the angels in heaven, because it is an accommodation of the Infinite to the finite (A.C. 8644).

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