Divine Principle & Swedenborg. An introduction to the Spiritual World and Eternal Life.

1. Divine Principle
&
Emanuel
Swedenborg
v. 2.9
Introduction

2. Emanuel Swedenborg
1688 –1772

3. Introduction
The often enigmatic but always fascinating
dream journal kept by Emanuel Swedenborg
from 1743 to 1744.
A scientist, Swedenborg meticulously recorded his
dreams and visions, adding interpretations that
foreshadowed modern dream analysis.
After an Easter vision in 1745, Swedenborg
abandoned his scientific studies and dedicated his life
to studying the inner meaning of Sacred Scripture. In
his diary, he reveals his daily life and the reflections
that are a key to understanding his later spiritual
works.

4. Introduction
Nightly we dream several dreams
that are marviously accurate
representations of ones life.
Most are forgotten.
Few can make use of dreams
that are recalled.
We slip in and out of common fantasies.
Words, phrases and images flit through our head as
we go about the days work. Most of it is lost.

5. Introduction
Our body has a whole language of its own,
pointing to our attitudes, tendencies and dispositions.
It is amazing how little of human experience
is actually known.
Dreams represent your situation in a symbolic form
regardless of weather you care or not, notice them or
not , believe in symbolism, or have any ability to use
them.
The most profound tendency of the psyche is to
represent itself.
/ Wilson Van Dusen MD

6. Swedenborg:
When the human body is worn out, it dies.
But when the heart stopped beating and lungs
stopped heaving, his/her inner self continues immediately
his/her life in another existence.
He/she is now a spirit and no one on this earth
can with their bodily eyes see him/her.

7. He/she has, however, in her new existence left a body that
on the dot corresponds to the body he/she had on earth
but in other for us unimaginable substance
on the nature of Swedenborg himself is uncertain.
He/she sees and hears and feels.
He/she has the stomach, liver, kidneys,
and even bladder
and she hungers and thirsts.

8. If the dead shall become alive first on the Day of Judgment?
Were, are they then after death, asks Swedenborg.
“Is Adam and Eve and all with them hovering in Space?
What could be more wailing, lamenting and more difficult
than such a wait?
Can not their destiny be compared with prisoners,
bound with chains and fetter?

9. If man had such a lot after death were it not better to be born
a donkey than a Human?
Is not the body eaten by worms, rats and fish?
And could a skeleton, dried out by the sun or decay into dust
be introduced in a new body?“ (T § 693)
Swedenborg's suggestion about a new life
immediately after death is a classy counteroffer.
Epic of the Afterlife: a Literary Approach to Swedenborg
/Olof Lagercrantz

10. Spiritual light
“A Columbus of Spirit World”

11. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a renowned scientist
whose spiritual senses were awakened;
he began a systematic investigation of the spirit world and
discovered many of its secrets.
Divine Principle v.96

12. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a renowned scientist
whose spiritual senses were awakened;
he began a systematic investigation of the spirit world and
discovered many of its secrets.
Although his research was long ignored by theologians,
recently, as increasing numbers of people have communicated
with the spirit world, its value is gradually being recognized.
Divine Principle v.96

13. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a renowned scientist
whose spiritual senses were awakened;
he began a systematic investigation of the spirit world and
discovered many of its secrets.
Although his research was long ignored by theologians,
recently, as increasing numbers of people have communicated
with the spirit world, its value is gradually being recognized.
In these diverse ways, the Abel-type view of life was maturing
to form the democratic world of today.
Divine Principle v.96

14. Since the satanic side mimics in advance the providence of
God, we may expect that God’s providence calls for three
stages of revolution to take place in each of the three spheres
of religion, politics and economy.
Divine Principle v.96

15. Since the satanic side mimics in advance the providence of
God, we may expect that God’s providence calls for three
stages of revolution to take place in each of the three spheres
of religion, politics and economy.
In the sphere of religion, the first reformation took place under
Martin Luther’s leadership after the first renaissance.
Divine Principle v.96

16. Since the satanic side mimics in advance the providence of
God, we may expect that God’s providence calls for three
stages of revolution to take place in each of the three spheres
of religion, politics and economy.
In the sphere of religion, the first reformation took place under
Martin Luther’s leadership after the first renaissance.
A second reformation was launched after the second renaissance
by the spiritual movements led by people such as the Wesley
brothers, Fox and Swedenborg.
From our examination of the progress of history, it is evident
that a third reformation will occur following the third renaissance.
Indeed, the state of today’s Christianity desperately calls
for such a reformation.
Divine Principle v.96

17. Emanuel Swedenborg January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772
was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian and Christian mystic.
He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ”.
He said that the Last Judgment had already occurred, in 1757,
although only visible in the spiritual world, where he had witnessed it.
That Judgment was followed by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ,
which occurred, not by Christ in person, but by a revelation from Him
through the inner, spiritual sense of the Word to Swedenborg.
Emanuel Swedenborg
1688 –1772

18. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published
18 theological works, of which the best known was
Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works.
Some followers of Swedenborg believe that, of his theological works,
only those which Swedenborg published himself are fully divinely inspired.
Emanuel Swedenborg
1688 –1772

19. The Arcana Cœlestia, (Heavenly Mysteries or Secrets
of Heaven) is the first and largest work published by
Emanuel Swedenborg in his theological period.
It was written and published in Neo-Latin, in eight volumes,
one volume per year, from 1749 to 1756.

20. It consists of an exposition of the spiritual sense of the books of
Genesis and Exodus, according to the doctrine of
correspondence (theology), and demonstrated by many supporting
quotations from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
While not denying the historicity of the stories of the Patriarchs (Bible)
and The Exodus from Egypt, it explains them as describing symbolically
the process of spiritual growth and struggles in each individual person

21. • We all come to the Spir World according
to our Earthly life
• One Physical and one Spiritual body only
• One physical life – no reincarnation
• ”That man after death is in possession of all
their senses and of every memory, thought
and feeling that she/he enjoyed in the world
and that she/he did not leave nothing left except
her/his earthly body. “ /Swedenborg
Similarities
Divine Principle and Swedenborgs teaching

22. • Trinity – is not true. /Swedenborg
God's purpose for creating Adam and Eve was
to form a trinity by raising them to be the
True Parents of humankind united in harmonious
oneness as husband and wife centered on God
in a four position foundation. /DP
• Faith without action is of no value.
Good faith leads to good actions /Swedenborg
Since God predestines His Will absolutely,
if the person who has been chosen to accomplish
His Will fails, God must continue to carry on His
providence until its fulfilment, even though it may
require Him to choose another person to shoulder
the mission. /DP
Similarities

23. • We all come to the Spir World according
to our Earthly life
• One Physical and one Spiritual body
• One physical life
• ”That man after death is in possession of all
their senses and of every memory, thought
and feeling that she/he enjoyed in the world
and that she/he did not leave nothing left except
her/his earthly body. “ /Swedenborg
• Trinity is not true
Similarities
Divine Principle and Swedenborgs teaching

24. Swedenborg worked under the mathematical premise
that all concord and harmony come from octaves.
Therefore, a mature tree could express a mathematically
precise octave through its stages of development from 1)
seed, 2) root, 3) stem, 4) branches, 5) leaves, 6) flowers,
7) fruit and back to 8) seed.
The Lord’s Prayer also can be articulated by an octave if
one knows how!

25. In the human body all process takes place between one
organ, tissue, cell and another.
Each of these organic units function as a centre of
stability between completing processes.
In the human mind, ideas and thoughts represent similar
centres of stability for mental forces gravitating towards
some decision and conclusion in action.

26. Swedenborg’s
“Circle of Life”

27. Within nature, a seed has both predictive and
explanatory powers as to its future trajectory and development.
Amazingly, scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg
discovered this same patterning principle and series operating
in the human intellect and in the narratives of the Bible!
The steps in each series of successive and simultaneous
events always move towards a common equilibrium
whereby the beginning is reclaimed in the final step.
A seed has all the successive steps of its future fulfillment
simultaneously built in.
In the human intellect, ideas are just like seeds.

28. • Personal salvation
• One saviour - Jesus
• Second Coming =
New Truth through
Swedenborg
• Jesus is God
Differences
• Family salvation
• Two Saviours – True Parents
• Salvation both Physical & Spiritual
• Children born without orig. sin
• Physical Second Coming born on Earth
• Continued revelation
= Divine Principle, Biography,
CheonSyeongGeong,
1000 and more Volumes
• Jesus and God 2 separate Holy
Sinless personalities – God incarnated
in Jesus

29. • Angels
are human spirits
Differences
According to Emanuel Swedenborg,
angels are simply good people who have lived in the
physical world previously.
Angels are not a separate or superior race of beings.
Wings, according to Swedenborg correspond to
(symbolize) spiritual power.
And the word angel means messenger.
• Angels are separate from man
created as only spiritual beings.
“Man reaches perfection only after
having acquired the ability to rule
the rest of creation, including the
angels” /DP73

31. Swedenborg's Pioneering Vision
Emanuel Swedenborg pioneered the scientific description
of the spirit world.
Being gifted with exceptional clarity, he was able to
separate much of the wheat from the chaff.
Exposition of the Divine Principle mentions him by name
and cites him for three significant contributions:

32. First, his teachings have had widespread influence on
modem religious thought despite the disapprobation of
the established churches.
Second, his teaching, which revealed many hitherto
unknown secrets of the afterlife, is largely truthful."
Third, he had a significant role in God's historical
providence to elevate the Christian faith from the stage
of rational adherence to doctrine to the higher stage
of inner, experiential relationship with God and the Spirit.

33. Marriage in Heaven
Swedenborg agrees with Lee in affirming heavenly
marriage and its rootedness in the divine polarity.
Here we find several distinctive teachings that
cohere with basic tenets of the Divine Principle:

34. Marriage in Heaven
First, Swedenborg regarded God's fundamental nature
as the duality of love (character) and wisdom (form).
A corresponding duality of male and female fills all creation.
" In marriage, husband and wife take after the divine polarity
as distinguished by the relative proportion of love and
wisdom. “
This corresponds to the Divine Principle's teaching of the
divine polarity of internal character and external form,
masculine and feminine.

35. Marriage in Heaven
Second, Swedenborg taught that “heaven is the
macrocosmic expansion of Christ, the Divine Human.
It is constituted by all the elements of man's mind.
The Divine Principle likewise teaches that a human being
is the microcosm of the cosmos.
The cosmos consists of dual realms: the physical world
and the spirit world, corresponding to the human body
and mind.

36. Marriage in Heaven
Third, Swedenborg taught that the family is grounded
in the image of God.
As God is the conjunction of love and wisdom, of good
and truth, so marriage is the opportunity for this divine
polarity to be expressed in a reciprocal union.
For this purpose, men and women are born.
Each family that is centered on God completes the divine
image by instantiating the divine polarity.
Each becomes the receptacle of divine love.
Furthermore, the pattern of the family is mirrored
throughout the creation.

37. Marriage in Heaven
Fourth, Swedenborg taught that the family is the seminary
of the human race." There our lower nature is gradually
transformed and spiritualized into the purity of true conjugal
love, which is the essence of heaven.
Rev. Moon likewise teaches that the family is the school
of love and the basic unit of the Kingdom of Heaven.

38. Marriage in Heaven
Finally, Swedenborg regarded conjugal love as the
highest joy of heaven.
He admitted that among Christians no conjugal
relations are totally pure and prophesied that
at the Second Advent,
"conjugial love will be raised up anew by the Lord."'
Here we recognize a prophecy of the Blessing,
arriving some 200 years later to elevate marriage to its
true ideal as the fulfillment of the purpose of creation.

39. Marriage in Heaven
In this regard, Swedenborg declared that marriage
is a higher state than celibacy.
He denied that the affections of priests, monks and nuns
are necessarily chaste.

40. Marriage in Heaven
On entering the spirit world, each is tried as to his or her
purity of heart.
Those full of inward lust are led away to hell.
Those who truly and chastely loved the Lord will receive
a marriage in heaven.
Source: Journal of Unification Studies - Vol. II
Visions of the Spirit World

41. Prof. Young Oon Kim

42. Often people ask how I was able to accept
the Divine Principle.
There were several contributing factors.
One of them is because I was greatly influenced
by the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg and still
treasure them deeply because they have continued
to have lasting value in my spiritual life.

43. According to Swedenborg, there is a correspondence
between what takes place on earth and what occurs
in the other world.

44. A. The Invisible Substantial World
and the Visible Substantial World
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mind
God person
invisible substantial
world
(spirit world)
subject
visible substantial
world
(physical world)
object
– perceived through
5 spiritual senses
– perceived through
5 physical senses

45. B. The mediator and the center of harmony
of the cosmos
spirit
world
physical
world
spirit
self
physical
self

46. 2. The Realms of
Indirect and Direct Dominion of God
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governance of
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47. Because Swedenborg is best remembered
for his claims to direct knowledge of the afterlife,
he has been criticized or ignored by most Christians.
Yet the fact is that his theological system has considerable
merit simply on the basis of its reasonableness and
moral worth, quite apart from the controversial question
of his reliability as an expert on parapsychological
phenomena.

48. God is made up of His deity (the Father),
His incarnation (the Son) and
His operation (the Holy Spirit or Divine Truth).
Hence, instead of three distinct persons there is
one person with three characteristics.
He believed that Jesus Christ was God made flesh,
the Divine Human.

49. For me, Divine Principle's idea of the polarity in God
sounded like Swedenborg's idea of God's dual
essentialities: divine wisdom and divine love.
Since man is a representative image of wisdom and
woman is a representative image of love, there is need
for them to have a reciprocal relationship.
Isn't this like our Unification theologies emphasis upon
the polarity of man and woman and the need for give
and receive?
Doctrine of God

50. There are two worlds, the spiritual and the natural.
These are distinct, yet similar.
Spirit world has trees, mountains, cities and societies,
just as does the natural world.
The only difference is that each thing in one world is
spiritual which is natural in the other world.
Creation and Providence

51. Why did God create the world?
Its universal purpose is that there might be an eternal
conjunction of the Creator and the creation.
He wants men to be His habitations, so every created
thing is finally designed for the sake of man.
Creation is in continual progression toward an ultimate end.
God seeks men to elevate themselves to their Creator
and conjoin themselves with Him.
Creation and Providence

52. For Swedenborg, Providence works to save all men,
whether they are Christian or not.
Everyone who lives by the principles of the
Ten Commandments is saved.
Even if some are totally ignorant of God yet live a
charitable life, they are instructed by spirits after death
and receive a spiritual principle into their moral life in heaven.
Creation and Providence

53. Or in the case of Islam, that faith was raised up by
providence in order to destroy idolatry and give some
knowledge of the Lord before Muslims should come
into the spirit world, Swedenborg claims.
Creation and Providence

54. The Lord's kingdom on earth then consists of
all good men.
As for the church, it serves as mankind's heart and lungs.
Those who are not Christians by profession are therefore
like the parts of the body kept alive by the heart and lungs.
Creation and Providence

55. In history the Church has taken 4 successive forms:
1. the Most Ancient Church from Adam to the flood,
2. the Ancient from Noah to Moses,
3. the Israelites from the revelation of Mt. Sinai
to the coming of Jesus, and
4. the Christian church,
which will last until the second coming of the Lord.
Creation and Providence

57. Jesus inherited hereditary evil from his mother
but he was free of the more internal hereditary
sin which comes from the father because his
father was God.
Since he was born of Mary, Jesus had infirmities
and temptations like any other man.
Gradually, however, Jesus put off everything human
in his nature until nothing remained of what be had
derived from his mother.
Christology

58. By overcoming numerous temptations, he achieved
glorification or complete union with God.
His whole life had been a continual temptation.
From his childhood until his death be was assaulted
by evils and conquered them.
He fought against all the forces of hell and subdued
them entirely, Swedenborg claims.
Christology

59. He established order in the heavens.
And he prepared for a new spiritual church.
However, he did not redeem the world by his blood,
as popularly thought.
He saves men only because of the powers of his life,
lived according to the precepts of faith and charity.
Christology

60. Jesus' physical body was not resurrected.
By overcoming the last trial -the crucifixion-
Jesus was completely glorified.
He "made the very corporeal in Himself Divine."
That is, he no longer had a human body like ours.
Christology

61. Swedenborg also denies the Pharisaic idea
that all men will be physically resurrected at
the last day. (DP same view)
Actually, every man rises again immediately after death.
He thinks he still has his body, exactly as it was on earth.
Christology

62. Swedenborg denied the ideas of predestination
and justification by faith alone.
Salvation requires actions on man's part and
cannot be granted as a free gift from Christ.
To enter heaven a man has to exhibit charity,
piety, the desire for a new life and exercise the
free faculty of doing good.
Christology

64. According to Swedenborg literalistic method
of Bible reading obscures the real message
of the Bible.
If the Word is divine, it must have a spiritual meaning.
As God reveals Himself in 3 ways and there are
3 heavens corresponding to these, so
in Scripture one can find
celestial,
spiritual and
natural meanings.
The literal sense is the foundation for the higher
interpretations but is the least important.
Doctrine of the Scriptures

65. In Swedenborg's opinion his major work was
to prepare a detailed explanation of the hitherto
concealed spiritual and celestial meaning of the Bible.
Doctrine of the Scriptures

66. For Swedenborg the Last Judgment refers
to two distinct events:
1)the immediate judgment of each soul at death and
2)the end of a church.
Last Days

67. The Adamic Church fell because of its sensuality,
lusts, and corporeality, Swedenborg declared.
So the delight of good which God intends becomes
man's delight in evil.
Hell originated from man's love of self and the world.
Last Days

68. According to Swedenborg there is no one devil
called Satan… (wrong according to DP)
but myriads of self-centred men in this world who
opposed the Divine and became devilish spirits
when they died.
The Lord does not cast anyone into hell.
He never turns His face from man, becomes angry
with no one and damns not a single soul, because
He is goodness, Love and mercy.
As man causes his own evil he makes his own hell.
Last Days

69. Completely evil spirits have no conscience.
They suffer in hell simply because they lack
the power to do as much evil as they desire.
Demonic spirits punish each other in their efforts
to dominate.
Last Days

70. Nevertheless God does not allow sinning to run unchecked.
For example, evil spirits are restrained from becoming worse.
Last Days

71. That is, they are not allowed to go beyond the level of
wickedness reached in their earthly existence.
Furthermore, when evil becomes so all-pervasive that
it threatens the balance between heaven and hell,
the Lord founds a new church to restore the cosmic order.
Last Days

72. So the doctrine of the last judgment –
in Swedenborg's view –
does not mean that heaven and earth will perish.
(same as DP view)
Instead it means that a new church will appear
both in heaven and on earth
to carry out the Lord's purpose.
Last Days

73. According to Swedenborg the human race will
continue for all eternity because it is the basis
upon which heaven is founded.
Also, the doctrine of correspondences implies
that men must live forever.
Last Days

74. There is a mutual and reciprocal conjunction between
man and angels.
No angel subsists without man and no man can exist
without a spirit or angel.
(For Swedenborg angels = humans who passed over)
Last Days

76. Men and women are inclined for "conjunction
into one" as part of God's plan for creation.
However, there are two kinds of marriage:
the natural or biological kind
and the spiritual.
Swedenborg stresses the significance of the higher type.
Heavenly
Matrimony

77. The male represents the wisdom of love
and the female symbolises the love of wisdom.
When earthly marriages come from love of
Goodness and truth, the kingdom of the Lord on
earth corresponds to His kingdom in heaven.
Marriage originates with God, fills humans with
heavenly love and makes them in the image of the Lord.
Heavenly
Matrimony

78. Sexual love belongs to the natural man
and conjugal love to the spiritual man.
Higher than the biological desires is conjugal love,
which cements internal relationships and provides
spiritual satisfactions.
Heavenly
Matrimony

79. “There (in Spiritual World), the two remain male and female
as to form, and become one angel as to their soul.
As a couple they live a life of useful service in the
Lord's Heavenly Kingdom, which is perfected to eternity.
If a person dies unmarried he or she will find a spouse
in heaven.”
/Swedenborg
Swedenborg

80. Swedenborg points out that even angels
(Angels = humans who passed over) are sexual.
Thus, there are marriages in heaven corresponding
to those on earth.
Heavenly marriage refers to the happy union of
male understanding and female will.
In heaven a married couple become so interrelated
that they are called one angel rather than two.
Heavenly
Matrimony

81. The union of husband and wife in heaven
does not produce more offspring but rather
procreation of more love and truth.
According to Swedenborg, conjugal love
is the highest kind of relationship because
it expands the innermost things of both
mind and body.
Heavenly
Matrimony

82. In heaven there is no domination of one partner
by the other.
Husband and wife experience the joy of mutual sharing,
and delights exceed all others.
Thus, genuine conjugal love is an image of heaven.
Heavenly
Matrimony

83. All he believed and all he wrote were outward
signs of his genuine love for God and fellow
men or his personal kindness and basic goodness.
Summing up his life and thought are two brief
sentences taken from his exposition of the
Book of Revelation:
"Worship does not consist in prayers and in outward devotion,
but in a life of charity.
The primary part of worship is a life of charity,
and its secondary is praying.”
Summary

85. My Encounter with Reverend Moon:
His Teaching and Person
I found several elements in the teachings of
Reverend Moon striking.
See 12 points below:

86. 1. I found the Divine Principle's concept of God more
illuminating and dynamic., very personal, yet not
anthropomorphic.
For Reverend Moon, God is a Being of infinite love,
longing for passionate human response and
absolute loyalty. Instead of seeing God as purely
masculine, he believes God is our Father/Mother
Creator, uniting the male and female essences in
perfect balance.

87. 2. Divine Principle reveals clearly the reality and nature
of Satan. In this materialistic age, many do not
recognize the existence of Satan.
However, Reverend Moon has specific knowledge
about him, his origin, nature purpose, tricks, and
scheming, as well as his final destiny.
Knowing this he is able to subjugate Satan.
Thus the cause of cosmic tragedy for God and man
is revealed and its resolution made possible. This I
realized, was crucial information.

88. 3. Divine Principle harmonizes the ageold controversies
of Christology. Christology revolves around some
perplexing problems.. Jesus' incarnation, his
divine/human nature, the virgin birth, the Trinity, the
resurrection, the atonement, and the redemptive
work of Christ.

89. 3. Contin.
As the Jews taught, the Messiah will be a man
chosen by God, one born like any other human
being. There is no need for a virgin birth.
While in his physical body Jesus had both human
and divine natures. When he entered the spirit world
he discarded his physical nature and became more
fully divine. However, God alone is eternally infinite;
Jesus is finite and dependent on God.

90. 3. Contin.
According to Reverend Moon, Jesus' original mission
was to establish the kingdom of God. His opponents
had him killed before his work was finished.
It was not Jesus' wish to drink the cup of martyrdom.
On the contrary, he wanted to fulfill his God.given
mission.
The crucifixion was neither his choice nor God's will.

91. 4. The Holy Spirit is not a third person of the Godhead
but God's redemptive activity in diverse forms.
The Trinity may refer to their three functions, but
there are not three Gods.

92. 5. Jesus is not coming on the clouds in a Second
Advent. The Second Advent will be realized through
another incarnation of divine truth. As Jesus was a
human being, the Lord of the Second Advent must
be another human being, proclaiming and
establishing the kingdom of God on earth. He will
fulfil the task Jesus had initiated and left incomplete.

93. 6. The concept of salvation varies greatly from religion
to religion.
But all this is the theological overlay of centuries.
Jesus Christ required his hearers only to listen to his
words and join him in building the kingdom of God.
Reverend Moon's requirements are the same: to
study his teachings and join him in forming the
kingdom of heaven on earth.

94. 7. With what authority can Reverend Moon ask us to
listen to his words and follow him?
He has paid historical indemnity for the sins of
Adam and Eve and their successors.
He is also fulfilling the restoration on the cosmic
levels, from the individual and family levels all
the way to the universal level. For his
accomplishments, he has secured the absolute
approval of God Himself, together with Satan's
confession and acknowledgment.

95. 8. God is a God of heart and love, the intrinsic desire
of heart and love is to feel joy. To be, as a couple,
His most intimate, object for His eternal love.
The Almighty Creator needs a tangible human
companion. God wanted to direct His vital and
infinite love toward man and woman and receive in
return their most grateful response. Our universe
was created for God to experience ultimate joy by
loving give and take with true man and woman,
without whom He must remain lonely and unfulfilled.

96. 9. For Reverend Moon, the realization of the purpose
of creation is the goal of history -- which must be
absolutely fulfilled by the establishment of the
kingdom of God on earth, as Jesus proclaimed.
Individual salvation and happiness here and
hereafter are inextricably related to this larger
providence. This view of the the world immediately
magnifies one's view of life.

97. 10. Those of us who follow Reverend Moon call him
Father because he has fulfilled the role of the
Third Adam, becoming the embodiment of God,
the Infinite Spirit.

98. 10. If the first Adam had not fallen he would have *
received God's blessing in marriage with Eve.
They would have become the True Parents of
humanity.
Then the coming of Jesus would have been
unnecessary.

99. 10. If Jesus, the Second Adam, had married a bride
and established God's kingdom on earth, they
would have become the True Parents of Humanity.
Then the Second Advent would have been
unnecessary.

100. 11. Also Reverend Moon knows the spirit world and
afterlife very well.
I knew that the eighteenth century spiritual seer,
Emanuel Swedenborg, had given detailed
information about such things.
Reverend Moon is even more accurate, reflecting
the current situation. Naturally he corrects some
points in Swedenborg's writings.

101. 12. Time and again Reverend Moon emphasizes the
heart of God: "You must approach God with an
open heart and listen with your heart when God
speaks."
Other religions and theologies greatly value the
devotional life, the loving heart and feeling of utter
dependence, spiritual ecstasy, joyful affection for
God, enthusiastic witnessing, and sympathetic
identification with Jesus' suffering, with all of which
Reverend Moon completely agrees.
But he goes much beyond.

102. Sun Myung Moon 1954-

103. According to Swedenborg, the seven days of the
week symbolized the seven states or successive
steps that humans had to go through for spiritual
transformation.
He also claimed that the seven-day creation story
in Genesis symbolized this precise innerspiritual
process.
Source: The Good guy

104. “Friday” or fifth day of the week represented the
stage in spiritual development where God is multiplying
the goodness of a person’s heart and mind.
But this stage is only reached after a person discovers
that goodness only comes from the Lord God, and,
has begun the inner combat of struggling against
one’s innate negative compulsions.

105. This new assessment of one’s inner flaws
(compared to God) can be considered as “bad luck”
to those who find such sincere self-revelation as
personally painful and upsetting to one’s false self-image
This assessment has further credibility since the number
“13” (“3” or “holiness” and “10” or “God’s full influence”)
symbolized the beginning of spiritual temptation and
purification (which God uses to get an individual to
acknowledge, then resist, one’s ignoble leanings and
character faults).

106. Finally, Friday the 13th
usually has us going into
the day with a certain amount of increased vigilance
and watchfulness so that something unexpectedly
bad doesn’t happen to us. Symbolically speaking,
a similar vigilance should take place within our inner
spirit where we should keep watch of negative or
hurtful intentions from causing bad things to happen
to our souls.
So keep watch in both worlds!
/thegodguy
/EDWARD F. SYLVIA, M.T.S. Philosopher/Theologian

107. Artist Benny Andersson

108. “Nature is in minor key.”
by thegodguy
On my recent visit to Sedona, Arizona, I attended
a musical demonstration of flute music by
Native American, Wolfs Robe.
He is a flute musician, flute historian and flute maker
of the authentic native instruments.
He is one of only six Native Americans qualified to carry
on this art.
All the traditional and original Indian flutes played in minor key.

109. When a woman in the audience asked
why this was, he responded by saying,
“because, nature is in minor key.”
Having studied the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg
and George Gurdjieff, I am quite partial towards
indigenous cultures, and their wisdom traditions.
So I pondered his statement a bit.

110. Anyone familiar with musical theory will tell
you that the minor key is more suitable for
quiet contemplation while the major key is more
“flashy” and, “in your face.”
Nature certainly offers an environment conducive to
quiet meditation, while 42nd Street and Broadway in
Manhattan plays more like a major key.

111. Swedenborg and Gurdjieff suggested that
ancient music was originally objective.
Swedenborg insisted that humankind once
possessed an angelic knowledge of art
that transcended any art known today.
This ancient art produced precise theological effects on
the higher functions of the human mind, which now are
mostly dormant.
Gurdjieff made similar comments.

112. quote made by Swedenborg, as a young man,
concerning genuine art:
“That is not art which reaches its effect by chance.“
/EDWARD F. SYLVIA, M.T.S. Philosopher/Theologian

115. Does your Astral Body stink?
By thegodguy
The strange word formulation, above,
was uttered by George Gurdjieff,
but it could have been said by Emanuel Swedenborg,
as well. Both men were concerned about humankind’s
inner (or spiritual) development.
Humans, if they ignore their spiritual responsibilities,
will literally give off a foul-smelling sphere in the “other”
(or spiritual) world.

116. This “smelly sphere” represents the inner quality of
one’s heart and mind, which becomes organized into
a real body for the soul.
(The human form is ultimately the reflection and
organization of all one’s loves.)
Gurdjieff called the rarefied (magnetic) blood,
which constructs this higher bio-organization
(like the Astral or preliminary spiritual body),
Hanbledzoin, while Swedenborg called it the Animal Spirit.

117. During the process of genuine spiritual transformation
and regeneration, it is this inner blood that gets purified
(Swedenborg: Divine Love & Wisdom, p 423).
This higher blood, in turn, purifies the lower, corporeal
(red) blood. During the organic processes of life this
higher, magnetic blood, gives off and eliminates its
dregs through perspiration and is connected to our
sweat glands.
I predict that someday we will develop the technology
to measure this bio-cleansing process and,
from subtle odors released, determine whether we are
spiritually evolving or just fooling others through pretense.

118. Haverdal Sweden

119. My babies are nuts
by thegodguy
From an elevated and spiritual point of view, nuts
(which are large seeds) symbolize intellectual ideas that
are of extra value and big enough to feed and sustain the
mind.
I have learned that the human mind and its memory are
like a field, and, various principles (like seeds) will take root
in the soil or quality of this mental ground.
In fact, a growing tree represents all the same steps that a
growing intellect goes through.

120. That is why we can easily exchange botanical terms for
mental functions.
For instance, the ideas of the human mind take root, branch
out, flower,produce fruit, and create new ideas (seeds) to
take root or be planted in another person’s mind
(one’s psychoscape).
Therefore, the visible world of nature can enlighten us as to
the nature of the invisible world of the spirit—if we know
how to decode it.
According to scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg,
Holy Scripture makes use of this same kind of symbolic
language (he called it correspondences)

121. That is why we can easily exchange botanical terms for
mental
functions.
For instance, the ideas of the human mind take root, branch
out,
flower,produce fruit, and create new ideas (seeds) to take
root
or be planted in another person’s mind
(one’s psychoscape).
Therefore, the visible world of nature can enlighten us as to
the
nature of the invisible world of the spirit—if we know how to
decode it.
According to scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg,
Holy Scripture makes use of this same kind of symbolic

122. As an example, the Garden of Eden in Genesis represents the
beautiful quality of noble thoughts and affections of humans
who allowed God to plant heavenly ideas into the inner
landscapes of their souls.
Such an inner paradise of the human heart and mind leads to
true and eternal happiness.

123. Language
in Spiritual World
Source: The Good guy

124. All speech (no matter what the language)
has its origins in the ideas and emotions of our intellect
and heart.
In the spiritual world—which is closer to the origins
of our being and mind—individuals communicate
their ideas and affections directly to others
(forgoing terrestrial words).
Source: The Good guy

125. Since these ideas and feelings make up a
person’s inner reality, they present an elevated
language that provides a perfect picture to others
of the quality of that person’s very soul.
Source: The Good guy

126. Time
Source: The Good guy

127. Ezekiel's Vision interpreted as the Old and New
Testaments by Fra Angelico (1455 AD)

128. • Time is cyclic (periodic) because all process in the universe
travels in repeating patterns. Within these patterns are
distinct and smaller units of periodic process (like Ezekiel’s
vision of wheels within wheels). Therefore, time is layered
and operates on different scales.
• That is why everything in the universe is unified,
and has order and orientation.
From the Swedenborgian
EDWARD F. SYLVIA, M.T.S. Philosopher/Theologian

129. Compare with DP view of Time and Providence

130. • Einstein was one of the first modern thinkers to believe
that time was a part of the very fabric of physical reality.
He was basically correct.
• But where his theory jumped the tracks is that spacetime
was not continuous—like a linear sheet of paper or a
membrane.

131. • Because time is the result of God’s influence in the world,
all time finds its successive moments leading to some
cosmic result—that is, some utility. The universe is nothing
but process finding form in uses. Time cannot manifest
outside this cosmic law—which promotes interdependence
through utility.

132. • To go backwards in time would mean to thwart God’s
unifying activity and the directionality of Divine Providence.
Comment: Judas Iscariot and the Pharicees thwarted
Gods providence by betraying and crucifying Jesus
the Messiah, 2000 years ago.
A potential KoH postponed another 2000 years until today.

133. • To move into the future, one would have to jump ahead of
God’s creative activity and providence — which means that
you would have to know where God is taking the world and
be able to do God’s Will all by yourself!
Comment: By paying indemnity, the possibility of moving the
providence forward, is possible. Problem is sinful Man can
not be reached by Gods direct guidance until he/she is in
the direct dominion of God. Meaning The Blessing must
have been given by the sinless Messiah.
end

134. Compare with DP view of Time and Providence

135. Columbus, Einstein and Swedenborg

136. All three men mentioned above were famous pioneers.
Christopher Columbus, as well as other 15th
and 16th
century explorers challenged the idea that the world
was flat. However, even proving the terrestrial earth
was round preserved it as a continuous plane.

137. Centuries later, Albert Einstein expanded this idea
of continuous structure and curvature to spacetime.
Although spacetime was curved it still represented
a continuous plane—called thespacetime continuum.
Spacetime could stretch and warp but it seemed
unable to create a quantum entity (matter).
This problem still perplexes scientists.

138. In between the lives of these two great explorers
(1688-1772) lived the amazing scientist/theologian,
Emanuel Swedenborg. He developed a cosmology
in which spacetime consisted of distinct inner levels
of structure and substances with less limitations on
their geometry and action.

139. This “sandwiching” of reality (in which limitations are
lawfully removed within process) made discrete leaps,
like a ladder, all the way to God, Divine Love and the
non-material structure of the Spiritual World!

140. Theology aside, Swedenborg’s model of reality
(discrete degrees) is needed by contemporary
physicists in order to rationally merge Einstein’s
relativity theory with quantum mechanics, in which
gravity is described in terms of non-continuous
quantum units.
This makes Swedenborg’s contributions truly unique
within the history of human ideas!

141. Swedenborg was a legitimate academic and scholar.
His multi-leveled model of reality had both explanatory
and predictive powers since the discrete levels of
structure making up the cosmos corresponded to
each other (a mimetic analog which requires
mathematical precision).

142. In this way all the physical processes found in the
natural world are an image and likeness of the
non-physical processes operating in heaven;
Swedenborg found a way to keep the laws operating
on these distinct levels self-consistent!

143. Again, these constants of law could also be
applied to spiritual revelation.
Swedenborg even went on to provide ponderous
evidence that this cosmic template of universal
order is secretly hidden within the sacred architecture
of the Bible narratives.

144. One of the unique benefits of grasping such a
multi-faceted doctrine of divine reality is that God
can reveal deeper theological mysteries while also
solving deep scientific mysteries.
(Successful evolution even requires humankind to
elevate their minds towards receiving such new
discoveries of unity.)

146. Swedenborg learned that two essential and
divine influences emanated from the Creator—love
and wisdom.
He described love as psycho-spiritualwarmth and
wisdom as spiritual light.
These two influences warm the hearts of angels in
heaven and enlighten their minds.
In fact, Swedenborg maintained that angels perceive
these two influences as coming from a Spiritual Sun—
the supreme abode of God’s Holy existence.

147. Hell: The Final Frontier

148. Swedenborg discovered that the men and women
of this terrestrial earth are inwardly connected
(heart and mind) to the influences of each realm.
Influences from those who have their abodes in
heaven love the Lord God and the neighbor, while those
who exist in Hell have a burning hatred and contempt
for God and for others.
These two realms inflow into the hearts and minds of
those still living on earth and fight a “turf war” over this
psychical ground of the soul.

149. Heavenly goodness only flows in and takes root in
our hearts and minds to the degree that we
self-examine our lives, find specific faults and succeed
(with God’s help) in resisting these character flaws.
This inner turf of the human heart and mind determines
what our spiritual environment (inner reality) will
ultimately consist of.
The final battle of Armageddon actually takes place
on this interior battleground!

151. Swedenborg’s scientific investigations included an
in-depth study of the brain and the brain cells (neurons).
He suggested that the neuron had deeper substrates
of structure.
It is only recently that some modern neuroscientists are
looking for deeper structures in the neuron to account for
higher reasoning and abstract thought.
These brave brain scientists (including the famous
physicist/mathematician Roger Penrose) suspect that
microfilaments or microtubules represent a nervous system
within the neuron itself!

152. Swedenborg claimed that these deeper substrates of
brain design take on geometries that become more
invisible, because such deeper structures successively
remove themselves from the constraints of physical law
and action.
In each case, brain function jumps to a discrete level of
activity representing a new analysis of infinity
Each level of brain activity also represents one’s quality
and type of worship (we worship what we love).
/The Good Guy

154. Take up your Cross!
In the same way that the Lord was scourged and suffered
crucifixion, we too, must put ourselves in a similar negative
position.
This is done (spiritually) by searching out our own
character flaws and praying to the Lord for the power
to resist such negative influences.
(This is the real meaning behind “carrying one’s cross.”)
In other words, spiritual combat is a fight against ourselves.

155. Swedenborg is saying in his work True Christianity
(Vol. 2, chapters 7 – 10).
Genuine spiritual love can only be obtained through
innocence.
And innocence can only be obtained by sincere
self-examination.
And self-examination can only be obtained by waking up.
And finally, being inwardly awake can only be obtained
when we become de-hypnotized.
Otherwise, our love will always be spoiled and worldly.
Source: thegodguy

156. Sperm and one’s spiritual quality
Sperm is more than “cum.”
Scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg stated that
human male sperm contains real spiritual substances within it.
These spiritual substances represent the deepest qualities
of a male’s heart and mind.

157. Therefore, if a male individual decides to
undergo spiritual transformation, it seems logical that
this change would be reflected within the innermost
structure of his sperm.
After all, some more noble active principle, or seed,
must be implanted from his understanding into a matrix
consisting of an equally noble new species of love in his
heart (will) for a man to genuinely change for the better.
What about women?
Well, Swedenborg tells us that they were created not
to simply love their own subjective views but to love
those views in some other man. /thegodguy

159. Emanuel Swedenborg 1997
• God said that even though man's ability is limited, the power
of the Holy Spirit is infinite. Swedenborg was one who thought
the power of God more precious than human ability.
• He is staying in a good place that is close to Paradise.
• When I entered the room, Swedenborg greeted me with a
bright smile and face. It was a very good feeling.
Dr Lee
In Spiritual World

160. Emanuel Swedenborg 1997
• Because he lived communicating with God for a long time,
even when he came to the spirit world, his spiritual eyes
shone very brightly.
• People who are attending him also had bright faces and
humble minds.
However, because they don't know True Parents' thought
and the Blessing, I came to think that before True Father
comes to this world, I would witness to them by giving
lectures as soon as possible.
Dr Lee
In Spiritual World

162. Messages from the Spirit World
Emanuel Swedenborg
2001.10.3
"Truth that theologically and philosophically shows the
basis of spiritual phenomena."
I experienced spirit world while I was still on the earth.
I experienced the real God in several ways while I was
on the earth.
That's why I have never doubted the existence of spirit world.

163. Messages from the Spirit World
Emanuel Swedenborg
2001.10. 3
There was no basis in experience, logic or the invisible
world for what I wrote and left as books on the earth.
It was only a deduction of what might be.
Also an extremely small part of it was written down.
But Divine Principle and Unification Thought are explaining
spirit world philosophically, theologically, historically
and with detailed accuracy based on the purpose of creation.

164. Messages from the Spirit World
Emanuel Swedenborg
2001.10. 3
Because most people can't realize the truth, they can't
escape from the eternal thorns of hell.
The lecturers here understand God's mind and practice.
And I know who is the hero of Divine Principle,
who is Reverend Moon.

165. Words of True Father SMM

166. Humankind has moved out of the authority of the era
of restoration through indemnity (1996), thanks to the grace
of True Parents who have suffered hardships through
which they sweat blood.

167. Humankind has moved out of the authority of the era
of restoration through indemnity (1996), thanks to the grace
of True Parents who have suffered hardships through
which they sweat blood.
We all have the responsibility to liberate families,
tribes, peoples, nations and the world in which God can
dwell, from the authority of hell.
Now that the era of restoration through indemnity has ended,
what kind of era is dawning?
The reign of tranquility and prosperity in the victorious
authority centerd on God and True Parents shall be eternal.
/SMM January 8 -- 15, 2012

168. Humankind has moved out of the authority of the era
of restoration through indemnity (1996), thanks to the grace
of True Parents who have suffered hardships through
which they sweat blood.
We all have the responsibility to liberate families,
tribes, peoples, nations and the world in which God can
dwell, from the authority of hell.
Now that the era of restoration through indemnity has ended,
what kind of era is dawning?
The reign of tranquility and prosperity in the victorious
authority centerd on God and True Parents shall be eternal.
/SMM January 8 -- 15, 2012
"Even if I go to hell, I would be kicked out from there
since I tell the truth.
In heaven, I do the same and would be kicked out too
and go to a higher place.“ /SMM June 2012

169. Aegina - Greece

170. • Dr. Sang Hun Lee's Teachings
from Spirit World
• Dr Sun Myung Moon
Earthly Life and
Spirit World I & II
…1998

171. • I have not conducted all the
providential efforts and events on my
own centering only on the physical
standard.
Instead, I have done these things by attending to
God in the spirit world.
You have to know that the reason everything is
being solved on Earth is so that the spirit world
will be affected and all the divisions within spirit
world will be broken down.

172. 2006

173. 2014

174. 3.1. Spirit is the essence of life
Where there is a nucleus, there must be a reciprocally
related being to revolve around it.
As electrons revolve around protons, human beings
are meant to revolve around God.
God can pursue the providence of restoration
because the human mind, which is like an electron,
naturally relates to God’s mind, which can be likened
to the nucleus.

175. 4.7. Heaven is a life of living
for the sake of others
The Kingdom of Heaven is where those who have
made sacrifices for others become the masters.
The family should sacrifice for the sake of the tribe,
the tribe for the people, the people for the nation,
the nation for the world, the world for the cosmos,
and the cosmos for God.
The ultimate purpose is in reaching God and
occupying Him.

176. Aegina - Greece

177. Remember the Beauty in Nature is there to
Inspire the Pure and Holy inside us all!
Have a great Blessed week. Prepared for 2nd gen inspiration by Bengt de Paulis.