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DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM - SWEDENBORG
Divine Love and Wisdom Emmanuel Swedenborg. Some messages from Emmanuel Swedenborg on his experiences.
Let me write a few lines as I desire to write you some Truths about what you and your friend were discussing. Namely, are there any such hells as are described in the messages contained in the book (Dr Peeble's "Immortality") that you have been reading tonight.
Well, you must know that in the Spirit Planes, hell is a place as well as a condition, and that as a place; it has all the accompaniments that make it a reality to the spirits who inhabit it. Of course, the conditions of the spirits who are in these hells are determined by their recollections worked upon by their consciences. Notwithstanding that, these recollections are the things that cause their sufferings; yet, the appearances of the locations in which they live are due to something more than these mere recollections. As you have been informed, all these spirits are in darkness, the degree of the darkness in which they live being determined by their recollections. I mean that when the spirit has recollections of deeds done, or not done, which are not so bad as the recollections of another, the former spirit is in a place where there is less darkness than the latter. These places have their own fixed condition of darkness and of gloom, and many other attachments, which increases the sufferings that spirits have to endure.
There are, of course, no fires, brimstone lakes, and devils with pitchforks adding to the sufferings of the spirits. Yet, there are certain conditions and appearances, which are outside of the spirits themselves, which causes their recollections to become more acute, and to work in a manner to produce a greater degree of suffering.
These hells may be places of caverns, rocks, barren wastes, dark holes, and other such things as have been written about. Mortals must know that evil spirits do not live in pleasant places and suffer only from the punishments which their recollections (conscience) bring to them.
While the hells of the orthodox are in their descriptions, greatly exaggerated, yet there is some Truth in the ideas, which these descriptions convey, as to the fact that the hells are places, in which are darkness, and many accompanying appearances, that add to the tortures of the spirits of evil.
I tell you this because I see you want to know the Truth, and for the further reason, that you do not believe that there are such distinctive places as the hells. That the darkness, which the spirits in their communications to you speak of, is in your opinion, produced by the conditions of the minds and souls of the spirits who write. Such opinion is not altogether correct. It is best for humans to know that the mere recollections do not include all of what the hells are.
You say you have your hells on Earth sometimes. That is True, to a limited extent. Many humans suffer very much from their consciences and remorse. But when they come into the Spirit World, if they have not gotten out of the condition which these recollections and remorse place them in, they will find that there is waiting them that place, or location, which will add to their sufferings that arise from the recollections of evil deeds committed while on Earth. These evil spirits live in communities, for the Law of Attraction operates in these dark and lower planes, just as it does in the higher spheres, and causes spirits of like, or similar, conditions to congregate together and find consolation, or what they may at times think to be consolation, in one another's company.
These hells are on the planes nearest the Earth. These spirits are not confined all the time to any particular hell. They have the privilege of moving at will along this plane. But wherever they go, they find that they are in these hells. They cannot escape from them, unless they accept the help from spirits who can instruct them (in) what they must do.
Well, when they come to you to write they are not very far from these hells, because the plane in which they live is a part of the plane in which the inhabitants of Earth live.
Of course, I don't mean to say that that portion of the Earth Plane that surrounds your Earth is composed entirely of these hells, for that is not True, as the Earth Sphere has in it considerable light and some happiness. You must further remember that there are many planes in this Earth Plane.
These spirits, while their habitations are in these hells, have the privilege of leaving these particular localities, and wandering for a short time in and over other parts of this Earth Plane. But this is only for a short time, and they have to return to the places where they have been placed, and which this Law of Attraction, that I speak of, draws them to.
Well, there are thousands of millions of evil spirits. There is never a time when some of them, thousands of them, are not surrounding and trying to use their bad influences on mortals. We do not know why this is permitted, but only know that it is so. Here again the great Law of Attraction operates, for many mortals are in similar conditions of development and evil thoughts to what these evil spirits are. Naturally, these evil spirits are drawn to them and do come to them. Frequently it happens, that while visiting these mortals of similar conditions to their own, they attempt to influence mortals who are in a better state of moral and spiritual condition, and sometime succeed in doing them harm.
The great fact is, that these evil spirits have a place of living, where they have to remain, until by the operation of the Law of Compensation they are relieved from some of their evil tendencies and desires, when they are permitted to progress.
My principal reason in writing you is to have you know that there are hells of places as well as of conditions. That these places, by reason of what they contain and their appearances, add to the suffering of the spirits.
As I have written a long time I will stop, and say that I am a Christian and an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres, and one of the spirit band that is helping you in your great work of the Master. So in leaving you I will subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, Swedenborg the Seer.
Divine Love and Wisdom - Swedenborg
February 28th, 1917.
I am here. Luther.
I merely desire to say, that as you read the pamphlet, I read with you. The description and explanation therein contained as to who God is, are entirely erroneous and blasphemous.
Jesus never claimed or taught while on Earth, that he was God. This I say because he has so instructed us. He never, since becoming a spirit, has made any such claim. The teachings of the New Church, in this particular, are all wrong. Tend to lead humans away from the True Conception of who God, and Jesus, both are.
Swedenborg has often conversed with me about his teachings, and declared; that his explanations, as to God, are not in accord with the Knowledge that he now has. That the teachings, as contained in his books upon this subject, were the result, very largely, of his own speculations. The result of his endeavors in trying to reconcile what he thought was an absurd conception of The Nature and Being of God, with the true interpretation of the Bible. He could not accept the doctrine of the Trinity, as explained, accepted and taught by the church. Hence, being a believer in the inspiration of the Bible and its infallibility of religious truths, he sought some exegesis that might be consistent with the Bible. At the same time in consonance with his ideas of reason and common sense. As he now says, he added mysticism to mysticism, and irrational explanations to irrational explanations. The result was that his teachings were more absurd and more difficult to understand than were the teachings of his church.
The Doctrine of the Trinity, as you have been told, is not True. Never had any authority in the teachings of Jesus, or those of the Apostles and Bible writers. Was merely the deduction of some of the old fathers of the church, arising from their speculations, and desire to make of Jesus a God, though a lesser god than the Father. At the same time one with the Father and a part of the Godhead that must be considered as being only one god. As taught by the Old Testament writers and prophets, that there is only One God.
This doctrine, of course, was absurd. Hence, was one of the mysteries of god. Nevertheless was taught as a truth and incumbent upon human to believe, whether they could understand it, or not, which of course, they could not.
But the doctrine was not accepted by all the writers of the early days, for as you know, there were bitter controversies among these expounders of what they supposed to be the scriptures, upon the question as to who Jesus was, and his relation to God. As the years went by the doctrine of the Trinity became firmly established as a canon of belief in the church. In my time on Earth, it was believed, and not questioned by the church. I believed it also, although I could not understand it.
Now, Swedenborg was a member of the church that bore my name, and which I was credited with having founded, and believed in its doctrines, even as to the Trinity, and the actual transformation of the wine and bread into the blood and body of Jesus. He continued in this belief up to the time of his wonderful visions of the Spirit World and his experience in meeting the spirits and Divine Angels of that World, including Jesus, whom he, in his writings claimed to be god. With whom he had many conversations and from whom he learned the Spiritual Truths that he declared to the World.
As you have been told, in the working out of the plans of the Celestial Angels, under the leadership of Jesus, Swedenborg was selected as the instrumentality through whom the Spiritual Truths should be revealed to humankind. In carrying out that plan, power was given to him to come, in his spirit perceptions, or his inner sight, as he calls it, into the Spirit World. There, see the conditions of spirits and angels. Also of their environments, and learn the Higher Truths from conversations with spirits and angels. He did come, in the manner indicated, and communed as he has claimed, except, that he never talked with God, only with Jesus, who he misconceived to be God. This cannot be wondered at, for Jesus was a spirit, so transcendent in glory, Love and Wisdom, that it was almost natural, as I may say that the mortal, in his new and unusual experience, should conceive this glorious Jesus to be God Himself. But it was not God, only Jesus that this seer saw and listened to.
Having a conception of this kind, you can readily see that when he came into his mortal self again, and many times this occurred, he firmly believed that Jesus, who had form and individuality in the Spirit World similar to what he had when on Earth, was actually God. It therefore became easy for Swedenborg to reject the doctrine of the Trinity. Jesus is God, manifested in the flesh, and God is Jesus, the Divine Man (according to his conceptions).
Of course, you must understand, that in the exercise of this seership, he experienced the doubts and fears, that at times, what he saw and heard might not be things of actuality. That possibly his imagination, or as in these latter days, what is called the subconscious mind, was deceiving him. Being a human of extraordinary mentality and strong convictions, as well as established faith in the doctrines of the church to which he belonged, many of his interpretations of what he saw and heard, and his teachings there from, were limited, flavored by his existing mental condition and faith. He has told me that for many years before his experience as seer, he had, to a more or less extent, doubted the Truth of the Trinity, and accepted it only as a mystery, because the church declared it to be a truth. That after his experiences as such seer, believing in the statements of the Bible as the infallible words of God, and also believing that he had seen God in the person of Jesus, he sought an explanation of these Bible statements and a reconciliation of them with his belief that Jesus was God. The result was his declared doctrine that Jesus is God.
So, in many other of his teachings, based upon his experience in the Spirit World, he embraced many errors and misconceptions of the Truths. To such an extent that, as you have been told, his mission, in its results, was a failure. The Truths that he had been selected to learn and declare to the World were never made known to humankind. This failure was disappointing to the spirits who conceived this plan, and in whom were lodged the Spiritual Truths of God. Who were acting as God's Instruments in their endeavor to make them known to Humanity.
It will be more satisfactory to you, and convincing to whomsoever may read the Truths that you are receiving, from these same High Spirits that selected him as their messenger, to have Swedenborg come himself, and explain the workings of his mission, and the causes and particulars of his failure in doing the Great Work that had been assigned him to do.
He says that he has one consolation, that many who have founded churches and attempted to declare Spiritual Truths, upon which doctrines and creeds have been promulgated and believed in, and that is; that his followers are so comparatively few in numbers. Consequently, so many less mortals are being deceived by his teachings. I can appreciate the consolation that he may have in this fact, for my teachings and beliefs that are false, as his are false, are believed in and followed by a very large number of mortals, to their injury.
Well, I am glad for the opportunity to write you tonight. I am still waiting for the chance to finish my message to my people on the errors of continuing in my teachings, and the necessity for them to become undeceived, and learn the Truths that are now being declared to Humankind.
I will not write further. So, goodnight, your brother in Christ, (Martin) Luther.
Divine Love and Wisdom
April 8th, 1917
I am here, Luke.
I come to tell you that you must not doubt that Swedenborg wrote to you, and what you wrote, or rather, received, in answer to your questions, he actually wrote. We are all desirous that he shall write you on the subjects that he has expressed a desire to write upon. For many of the teachings and doctrines that are contained in his Earthly writings are erroneous and must be corrected, for they are being studied and believed in by many mortals, all to their leading away from the Truth.
The one great error, or untruth, that must be corrected is his teaching, that Jesus is God. This is blasphemous and abhorrent to all the Angelic Spirits, and more so to the Master himself than to any other. For the correction of this, Swedenborg must write.
Well, I will not write more tonight, except to say this; that another anniversary of the Resurrection of the Master, as it is believed, has come. Humans are worshipping Jesus as God, and sending their praises and thanks to him as the great redeemer of the World by his death and "resurrection", while as you know, his death had very little to do with that Redemption, and his resurrection was not the Resurrection that he taught could be the experience and possession of all humankind.
It is pitiable and destructive to the Truth for humans to believe and teach, that the mere resurrection of the spirit from the body is the Resurrection that Jesus came to teach and demonstrate. When we see each year the repetition of the observance of the anniversary of this rising of Jesus from his physical body, and all the false beliefs and teachings, we realize more and more the necessity for our Truths being made known to the World.
So you must work harder and pray to the Father to increase your Soul Development so that our messages may be more rapidly received.
Remember what John said a few nights ago, and believe, for the promises then made will soon be realized by you. I will come soon and write a message.
With my Love and great desire that we become closer in our rapport and more expedient in our work, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.
Divine Love and Wisdom - Swedenborg
December 23rd, 1917
I am here, Swedenborg.
I have heard the messages that you have just received. I desire to impress upon you the necessity, and importance, of striving to follow the advice therein given. If you fail now, to do the work, upon which you have entered, your regrets, when you come to the Spirit World, will be so great that you will find it almost impossible to get rid of them, even if you progress to the Soul Spheres, where the Divine Love is all so abundant.
I know what I write! That was my experience. It seemed to me, that everywhere I turned, as I sought to progress, I saw before me the word "failure". For many long years, it was my ghost of a recollection. Failure, as you may know is comparative. Humans may fail in their ambitions and desires for fame, wealth, and position. Yet, when they come to the Spirit World, they realize that such failures mean comparatively little. In their progress in the Truth, they soon forget their failures and cast them behind. When a mortal has conferred upon them a work, which does not have for its object, the accumulation of wealth, the attaining of fame, or position, but the Great and Vital End, of showing humans The Way by which they can become reconciled to God and partake of His Very Divine Nature in Divine Love, and obtain Immortality, also has given to them the privilege of receiving the Great Truths of God in relation to the Salvation of Humans, then I say; that failure means a great catastrophe for them. A greater calamity for Humanity. That human is in a condition of mind and recollection beyond description.
Very few humans, have had conferred upon them this great privilege, power, and responsibility. I was one of them. I was a failure, not because I did not try to receive and deliver the Truths, but because I prevented, by my preconceived ideas of what the truth should be, the Real and Pure Truth from coming to me, and thence to Humanity. In a way, I was unconscious of my failure, or of the existence of conditions in me, that caused the failure. Yet, when I came to the Spirit World, and realized the failure that I had made, then everything was a failure to my conscience.
In your case, you have no such preconceived ideas to hamper you, or prevent you from receiving the Truths. For you are used merely as instrument for these Truths, to transcribe. They are delivered in the very language of the writers. Your failure, if such there shall be, will be entirely due to your indifference, or want of effort to get in condition, that will enable the messages to be written.
You must see your responsibility, and your duty. I may say your Love that should urge you to work. You must not become a failure.
I am your friend, brother, and co-worker, in making known these Truths. I only write, because I as a failure can speak from experience. So my brother, turn your thought more to this work. If necessary, sacrifice every Worldly consideration to carry forward your work, and make perfect your efforts to fulfill the Great Mission, with which you have been Blessed.
I will not write more now. May the Father Bless you with His Divine Love.
Your brother in Christ, Swedenborg.
Divine Love and Wisdom - Swedenborg
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