Spiritual rays of light, drawn from the spiritual writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688 to 1772.
There is a Divine Being, which is love itself and wisdom
itself.
Everything is created and kept in existence by it.
It loves its creation and acts wisely to maintain it.
It seeks the joy and usefulness of everything created.
Humans are the highest form of life in the created universe.
We can reason about the existence of a creator.
We can come to know the creator and love it.
We feel our life to be our own which gives us spiritual freedom.
Our rationality and spiritual freedom are precious gifts from the Divine.
They are kept in balance allowing us to choose our spiritual lives' direction.
Nearly everyone builds their choice during this life.
We choose to love other people ('heavenly') or ourselves ('hellish') the most.
We all will live forever after physical death as spirits, which is our true inner life.
The spiritual dimension looks like this life to us but it works differently.
We live our chosen love outwardly, heavenly as angels, or hellish as evil spirits.
We are unable to hide inner thoughts and desires from others there.
The 'like attracts like' principle applies fully in the spiritual world.
Spirits live in communities whose chosen love resembles their own.
They are also drawn to our thoughts and desires through what we find delightful.
They want to get us to become like them because that is what makes them happy.
The Divine has one aim which is to bring us to heaven.
It always protects the balance of our reason and spiritual freedom to achieve this.
It gives all of us every germ of an idea or a love that can help us to choose heaven.
Hell is allowed to exist because those there are the most happy they can be.
We can grow spiritually in this life from a knowledge of the Divine's nature and our
own potentiality.
We start live with the tendency to love ourselves most.
We must change this by putting to the Divine and other people first in our thinking and
feeling.
Progress comes from dealing positively with negative experiences ('temptations') which
condition us.
The Divine ultimately makes the changes at the spiritual level of our life.
Its love and wisdom is endlessly and unceasingly providing for this.
It does it for all who acknowledge a creator and live what they believe to be spiritually
true.
Its essential purpose is to create a heaven of angels from the human race.
Men and women were created to complement one another.
The primary focus of the male is intellectual; the female, affection.
Spiritual life develops when there is a balance between knowing and living truth.
True marriage love between a man and woman most closely mirrors the Divine nature.
The Divine reveals itself in forms that contain spiritual principles and heavenly life.
Nature with its organic unity and expression; Sacred scriptures which are written in spiritual
language and symbols; Incarnation, the Christ being the Divine in
person who overcame every evil.
Drawn from the spiritual writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.