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On today’s show we are very pleased to present some excerpts from Chapter 5 of “Divine Providence” by Emanuel Swedenborg (vegetarian), which remind us that the true spiritual life, eternal life only occurs through a reciprocal relationship with the Lord.DIVINE PROVIDENCE Conjunction with the Lord and Regeneration […] “The Lord says, Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? Everyone who comes to Me and hears my words and does them ... is like a house-builder who has placed the foundation on a rock, but the man who hears and does not do, is like a man building a house on the ground without a foundation. The conjunction of the Lord with man and man’s reciprocal conjunction with the Lord is effected by these two faculties. Conjunction with the Lord and regeneration are one and the same thing, for a man is regenerated in the measure that he is conjoined with the Lord. All that we have said above about regeneration can be said therefore of the conjunction, and all we said about conjunction can be said about regeneration. The Lord Himself teaches in John that there is a conjunction of the Lord with man and a reciprocal conjunction of man with the Lord. Abide in Me, and I in you. He that abides in Me and I in him, brings forth much fruit. In that day you will know that you are in Me and I in you […].”DIVINE PROVIDENCE Belief and Goodness “I have been granted both to hear and see in the spiritual world what the difference is between those who believe that all good is from the Lord and those who believe that good is from themselves. Those who believe that good is from the Lord turn their faces to Him and receive the enjoyment and blessedness of good. Those who think that good is from themselves look to themselves and think they have merit. Looking to themselves, they perceive only the enjoyment of their own good which is the enjoyment not of good but of evil, for man’s own is evil, and enjoyment of evil perceived as good is hell. Those who have done good but believed it was of themselves, and who after death do not receive the truth that all good is from the Lord, mingle with infernal spirits and finally join them. Those who receive that truth, however, are reformed, though no others receive it than those who have looked to God in their life. To look to God in one’s life is nothing else than to shun evils as sins. The Lord’s conjunction with man and man’s reciprocal conjunction with the Lord is effected by loving the neighbor as one’s self and the Lord above all. […]”
