CLJ 2 & 13 - evening & night and morning & day

Continuation concerning the Last Judgment 2 & 13

CLJ 2
The subject of the Last Judgment is continued,
principally that it may be known
what the state of the world and the church was before the Last Judgment,
and what the state of the world and the church has become since;
also, how the Last Judgment was accomplished upon the Reformed.

CLJ 13
The state of the world and of the church
before the Last Judgment was like evening and night,
but after it, like morning and day.
When the light of truth does not appear, and truth is not received,
there is a state of the church in the world like evening and night;
. . . there was a state before the Last Judgment . . .
but when the light of truth appears, and the truth is received,
there is a state of the church in the world like morning and day.

Watch, for ye know not when the Lord of the house will come,
whether at evening, at midnight,
at cock-crowing, or in the morning.
(Mark 13:35)

Jesus said, I must work while it is day;
the night comes, when no one can work.
(John 9:4)

Since such things are meant by "evening and night,"
therefore the Lord,
in order to fulfil the Word,
also was buried in the evening
and afterward rose again in the morning.

LJ 73 - after the Last Judgment, spiritual freedom has been restored

Last Judgment 73

The state of the world hereafter
will be altogether similar to what it has been heretofore,
for the great change which has taken place in the spiritual world,
does not induce any change in the natural world as to the external form . . .
for the Word in its prophecies does not treat of the kingdoms on earth,
nor of the nations there, thus neither concerning their wars,
nor of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes there,
but of such things as correspond to them in the spiritual world . . . .
But henceforth the person of the church
will be in a more free state of thinking on matters of faith,
thus on the spiritual things which relate to heaven,
because spiritual freedom has been restored to him.
For all things in the heavens and in the hells are now reduced into order,
and all thought concerning Divine things
and against the Divine inflows from thence;
from the heavens all thought which is in harmony with Divine things,
and from the hells all which is against Divine things.
But a person does not observe this change of state in himself,
because he does not reflect upon it,
and because he knows nothing of spiritual freedom and of influx;
nevertheless it is perceived in heaven,
and also by a person himself after his death.
Because spiritual freedom has been restored to mankind,
therefore the spiritual sense of the Word has now been disclosed,
and by it interior Divine truths have been revealed . . ..

LJ 58 - Light proceeds from the center towards the circumferences, and illuminates.

LJ 58
. . . they who are in the light of truth from the Word are in the center,
and they who are in the light of truth from the Word
are also in the light of heaven,
for the light of heaven is from the Divine truth,
and the Word is that in which this is.

LJ 57 - Peter

LJ 57
Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build My church.
(Matt. 16:18, seq.)

By this is not meant that any power was given to Peter,
but that it is given to truth from good,
for in the heavens all power belongs to truth from good,
or to good through truth;
and since all good,
and all truth,
are from the Lord,
and nothing from man,
that all power is the Lord's.

LJ 41 - the state of the church

LJ 41
The quality of the Lord's church on earth,
cannot be seen by any person,
so long as he lives in the world,
still less how the church
in process of time
has turned aside from good to evil.
The reason is,
that a person will he is living in the world,
is in externals,
and only sees those things which appear before his natural man;
but the quality of the church as to spiritual things,
which are its internals,
does not appear in the world.
Yet it does appear in heaven as in clear day,
for the angels are in spiritual thought,
and also in spiritual sight,
and hence see nothing but spiritual things.

LJ 39 - faith and the life of charity

LJ 39 - Section: From the Arcana

They who make faith alone saving,
excuse a life of evil;
and they who are in a life of evil,
have no faith,
because they have no charity.
(AC 3865, 7766, 7778, 7790, 7950, 8094)

They are inwardly in the falsities of their own evil,
although they do not know it.
(AC 7790, 7950)

Therefore good cannot be conjoined to them.
(AC 8981, 8983)

Faith alone,
or faith separated from charity,
is as the light of winter,
in which all things of the earth are torpid,
and nothing is produced;
but faith with charity
is as the light of spring and of summer,
in which they all bloom and are made productive.
(AC 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413)

To know truths,
to will truths,
and to be affected by truths for truth's sake,
that is, because they are truths,
is charity.
(AC 3876, 3877)

Charity consists in an internal affection of doing truth,
and not in an external affection without it.
(AC 2429, 2442, 3776, 4899, 4956, 8033)

Therefore charity consists in performing uses for the sake of uses,
and its kind is according to the uses.
(AC 7038, 8253)

Charity is a person's spiritual life.
(AC 7081)

LJ 36 - faith and charity make one

LJ 36
. . . faith is not only to believe,
but to will and do,
therefore there is no faith
if there is no charity.
Charity or love is to will and to do.

LJ 25 - the spiritual of every person is in conjunction with the Divine

LJ 25
. . . the spiritual of every person is in conjunction with the Divine,
since it can think of the Divine,
and also love the Divine,
and be affected with all things which are from the Divine,
such as those which the church teaches,
and therefore it can be conjoined to the Divine by thought and will,
which are the two faculties of the spiritual person,
and constitute his life;
and that which can thus be conjoined to the Divine,
can never die,
for the Divine is with it,
and conjoins it to Himself.

LJ 20 - people were created to become angels

LJ 20
He who has been instructed concerning Divine order,
may moreover understand, that man was created to become an angel,
because in him is the ultimate of order,
in which ultimate,
whatever belongs to celestial and angelic wisdom
may be formed, renewed, and multiplied. . . .

God said,
Let us make man in our image,
according to our likeness;
and God created man in His image,
in the image of God created He him;
male and female created He them;
and God blessed them,
and God said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply.
(Genesis 1 26-28)

"To create in the image of God, and in the likeness of God,"
is to confer upon a person all things of Divine order from firsts to ultimates,
and thus to make him an angel as to the interiors of his mind.

LJ 13 - Every Divine work has respect to infinity and eternity.

Last Judgment 13

Every Divine work
has respect to infinity and eternity,
is evident
from many things which exist both in heaven and in the world:
in neither of them
is there ever given one thing exactly similar to,
or the same as, another:
no two faces are either alike or identical,
nor will be to eternity:
in like manner the mind of one is never altogether like that of another;
wherefore there are as many faces and as many minds
as there are people and angels.

That such infinite variety is in each and in all,
is because they all originate from the Divine,
which is infinite;
hence there is a certain image of infinity everywhere,
to the end that the Divine may regard all things as His own work,
and at the same time,
that all things,
as His work,
may have respect to the Divine.

The angelic heaven is the end
for which all things in the universe were created,
for it is the end on account of which the human race exists,
and the human race is the end
regarded in the creation of the visible heaven,
and the earths included in it.
Where fore that Divine work, namely, the angelic heaven,
primarily has respect to infinity and eternity,
and therefore to its multiplication without end,
for the Divine Himself dwells therein.

NJHD 311-312 - Ecclesiastical & Civil Government

NJHD 311-312
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.

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 (closely joined, united) 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.

NJHD 280 - the Lord

NJHD 280
There is One God,
who is the Creator
and Conservator of the universe;
thus who is the God of heaven
and the God of the earth.

NJHD 268 & 269 - Providence

NJHD 268
The Divine Providence of the Lord
extends to the most minute things of a person's life;
for there is only one fountain of life,
which is the Lord,
from whom we are, we live, and we act.

NJHD 269
. . . the Divine Providence does not regard that which soon passes away,
and ends with the life of a person in the world,
but that it regards that which remains to eternity,
thus which has no end.

NJHD 261 - The Word is written by correspondences, and thus by representatives.

NJHD 261
They who despise the Word
on account of the apparent simplicity and rudeness of its style,
and who fancy that they would receive the Word,
if it were written in a different style,
are in a great error.
(AC 8783)

The mode and style of writing,
which prevailed amongst the most ancient people,
was by representatives and significatives.
(AC 605, 1756, 9942)

The ancient wise men were delighted with the Word,
because of the representatives and significatives therein . . ..
(AC 2592, 2593)

If a man of the Most Ancient Church had read the Word,
he would have seen the things which are in the internal sense clearly,
and those which are in the external sense obscurely.
(AC 4493)

The sons of Jacob were brought into the land of Canaan,
because all the places in that land,
from the most ancient times,
were made representative.
(AC 1585, 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516)

And thus that the Word might there be written,
in which Word those places were to be mentioned
for the sake of the internal sense.
(AC 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516)

But nevertheless the Word was changed,
for the sake of that nation,
as to the external sense,
but not as to the internal sense.
(AC 10453, 10461, 10603, 10604)

NJHD 256 - The Word is not understood except by those who are enlightened, and they are enlightened who live Its Truth.

NJHD 256

Enlightenment is an actual opening of the interiors of the mind,
and elevation of them into the light of heaven.
(AC 10330)

Holiness from the internal, that is, through the internal from the Lord,
inflows with those who esteem the Word to be holy,
though they themselves do not know it.
(AC 6789)

They who are led by the Lord are enlightened,
and see truths in the Word,
but not they who are led by self.
(AC 10638)

They who love truth because it is truth, that is,
who love to live according to Divine truths,
are led by the Lord.
(AC 10578, 10645, 10829)

NJHD 242-243 - the church

NJHD 242-243
The church is said to be
where the Lord is acknowledged and where the Word is,
for the essentials of the church
are love and faith in the Lord from the Lord;
and the Word teaches how a person must live
that he may receive love and faith from the Lord.

That there may be a church,
there must be doctrine from the Word,
since without doctrine the Word is not understood.
Doctrine alone, however,
does not constitute the church with a person,
but a life according to it.
Hence it follows that faith alone does not constitute the church with a person,
but the life of faith,
which is charity.
Genuine doctrine is the doctrine of charity and faith together,
and not the doctrine of faith separate from charity;
for the doctrine of charity and faith together is the doctrine of life;
but not the doctrine of faith without the doctrine of charity.

NJHD 232-233 - heaven can be with everyone

NJHD 232 - 233
Heaven is with every person
according to his reception of love and faith from the Lord;
and they who receive heaven from the Lord
while they live in the world,
come into heaven after death.

They who receive heaven from the Lord
are they who have heaven in themselves,
for heaven is in a person,
as the Lord also teaches:

Neither shall they say,
The kingdom of God,
lo it is here, or lo there,
for the Kingdom of God is in you.
(Luke 17:21)

NJHD 210, 212-213 - Holy Supper

NJHD 210, 212-213
The Holy Supper was instituted by the Lord,
that by it there may be conjunction of the church with heaven,
thus with the Lord:
therefore it is the most holy thing of worship.

In the spiritual sense,
the Lord's "body" or "flesh," and the "bread,"
signifies the good of love;
and the Lord's "blood" and the "wine,"
the good of faith;
and "eating" is appropriation and conjunction.
The angels who are with the person
who goes to the Sacrament of the Supper,
understand those things in no other way,
for they perceive all things spiritually.
Hence it is,
that the holiness of love and the holiness of faith
then flow into person from the angels,
thus through heaven from the Lord,
and hence conjunction is effected.

From these things it is evident,
that when a person partakes of the bread,
which is the body,
he is conjoined to the Lord by the good of love to Him from Him;
and when he partakes of the wine,
which is the blood,
he is conjoined to the Lord by the good of faith in Him from Him.
But it is to be known
that the conjunction with the Lord by the Sacrament of the Supper,
is effected with those alone
who are in the good of love and faith in the Lord from the Lord.
With these there is conjunction by the Holy Supper;
with others there is presence, but not conjunction.

NJHD 204, 207, 208 - baptism

NJHD 204, 207, 208

This the Lord teaches in John 3:5:

Except a man be begotten of water and of the spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

"Water" in the spiritual sense is the truth of faith from the Word;
"the spirit" is a life according to that truth;
and "to be begotten" is to be regenerated thereby.

Let those therefore who are baptized know,
that baptism itself does not give faith nor salvation,
but it testifies that they may receive faith and be saved,
if they are regenerated.

Hence may be seen what is meant by the Lord's words in Mark:

He that believes and is baptized, shall be saved;
but he that believes not shall be condemned.
(Mark 16:16)

"He who believes"
is he who acknowledges the Lord,
and receives Divine truths from Him through the Word;
"he who is baptized"
is he who is regenerated by the Lord by means of those truths.

NJHD 197 - temptations

NJHD 197
In temptations
angels from the Lord keep a person
in the truths and goods which are with him,
but evil spirits keep him
in the falsities and evils which are with him,
whence arises a conflict and combat.
(AC 4249)

In a state of despair a person speaks bitter things,
but the Lord does not attend to them.
(AC 8165)
When the temptation is finished,
there is at first a fluctuation between the truth and falsity.
(AC 848, 857)
But afterwards truth shines,
and becomes serene and joyful.
(AC 3696, 4572, 6829, 8367, 8370)