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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824783303321

Autore

Swedenborg Emanuel <1688-1772, >

Titolo

Sacred scripture : white horse / / Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated from the Latin by George F. Dole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Chester, Pennsylvania : , : Swedenborg Foundation, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-87785-679-6

Edizione

[Portable New Century]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Disciplina

289.4

Soggetti

New Jerusalem Church - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Conventions Used in This Work""; ""Sacred Scripture""; ""[1] ÂÂ1â€?4 / Sacred Scripture, or the Word, Is Divine Truth Itself""; ""[2] ÂÂ4â€?26 / There Is a Spiritual Meaning in the Word, Which Has Been Unknown until Now""; ""[3] ÂÂ27â€?36 / The Literal Meaning of the Word Is the Foundation, the Container, and the Support of Its Spiritual and Heavenly Meanings""; ""[4] ÂÂ37â€?49 / Divine Truth, in All Its Fullness, Holiness, and Power, Is Present in the Literal Meaning of the Word""

""[5] ÂÂ50â€?61 / The Churchâ€?s Body of Teaching Is to Be Drawn from the Literal Meaning of the Word and Is to Be Supported by It""""[6] ÂÂ62â€?69 / By Means of the Literal Meaning of the Word We Unite with the Lord and Form a Companionship with Angels""; ""[7] ÂÂ70â€?75 / The Word Is in All the Heavens and Is the Source of Angelic Wisdom""; ""[8] ÂÂ76â€?79 / The Existence of the Church Rests on the Word, and Its Quality Depends on the Quality of Its Understanding of the Word""

""[9] ÂÂ80â€?90 / There Is a Marriage of the Lord and the Church in the Details of the Word and a Consequent Marriage of Goodness and Truth""""[10] ÂÂ91â€?97 / It Is Possible to Wrench Heretical Ideas from the Literal Meaning of the Word, but What Is Damning Is to Convince Ourselves [That They Are True]""; ""[11] ÂÂ98â€?100 / The Lord Came into the World to Fulfill Everything in the Word and So to Become Divine Truth or the Word Even on the Outermost Level""; ""[12] ÂÂ101â€?103 /



Before the Word That We Have in the World Today, There Was a Word That Has Been Lost""

""[13] ÂÂ104â€?113 / By Means of the Word, There Is Light Even for People Who Are outside the Church and Do Not Have the Word""""[14] ÂÂ114â€?118 / If There Were No Word, No One Would Know about God, Heaven and Hell, Life after Death, and Least of All, about the Lord""; ""White Horse""; ""[1] ÂÂ1â€?5 / The White Horse Described in Revelation 19""; ""[2] ÂÂ6â€?17 / The Word and Its Spiritual or Inner Meaning from Secrets of Heaven""; ""Biographical Note""