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Title: Spiritual Life and the Word of God

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Release Date: November 11, 2004 [eBook #14026]

Language: English

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SPIRITUAL LIFE AND THE WORD OF GOD

by

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772)

Extracted from the Apocalypse Explained

Contents

Part First--THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

I. How Spiritual Life is Acquired
II. Goods of Charity
III. Shunning Evils
IV. Cleansing the Inside
V. What Religion Consists In

Part Second--THE COMMANDMENTS

I. The First Commandment
II. The Second Commandment
III. The Third Commandment
IV. The Fourth Commandment
V. The Fifth Commandment
VI. The Sixth Commandment
VII. The Seventh Commandment
VIII. The Eighth Commandment
IX. The Ninth and Tenth Commandments
X. The Commandments in General

Part Third--PROFANATIONS OF GOOD AND TRUTH

I. Goods and Truths and Their Opposites
II. The First Kind of Profanation
III. The Second Kind of Profanation
IV. The Third Kind of Profanation
V. The Fourth and Fifth Kinds of Profanation

Part Fourth--THE DIVINE WORD

I. The Holiness of the Word
II. The Lord is the Word
III. The Lord's Words Spirit and Life
IV. Influx and Correspondence
V. The Three Senses of the Word
VI. Conjunction by the Word
VII. The Sense of the Letter

Part First--THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

I. How Spiritual Life is Acquired

Spiritual life is acquired solely by a life according to the
commandments in the Word. These commandments are given in summary in
the Decalogue, namely, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not
steal, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou
shalt not covet the goods of others. These commandments are the
commandments that are to be done, for when a man does these his works
are good and his life is spiritual, and for the reason that so far as a
man shuns evils and hates them so far he wills and loves goods.