What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
CHAPTER 13
In the Writings, the Lord in His Second Advent is present in His Divine
Human as to Divine Truth and Doctrine Itself
"To the end that the Lord might be constantly present, He has disclosed to me the
spiritual sense of His Word, in which Divine truth is in its light, and in this He is
constantly present; for His presence in the Word is from nowhere else than through the
spiritual sense ...
- True Christian Religion 780
The spiritual sense of the Word has been disclosed by the Lord through me; which has
never before been revealed since the Word was written among the sons of Israel; and this
[sense] is the very sanctuary of the Word; the Lord Himself is in this [sense] with His
Divine and in the natural sense with His Human
- Invitation to the New Church 44
"By the 'Comforter' (Paracletum) is meant the Divine truth which the Lord was
while in the world, and which proceeds from the Lord after He glorified His Human and went
out of the world; therefore He said that He would send the Comforter, and that He Himself
would come. To 'send the Comforter' is to illustrate and instruct in the truths of faith,
and 'to come to them' is to lead into good."
- Arcana Coelestia 9199
"The manifestation of the Lord in the Word was effected by His opening and
revealing the internal or spiritual sense of the Word; for in this sense is the Divine
truth itself such as it is in heaven, and the Divine truth in heaven is the Lord Himself
there."
- Apocalypse Explained 594:3
"Whether you say 'the Lord' or 'the Divine truth,' it is the same, since all
Divine truth is from Him, and therefore He Himself is in it: whence it is that the Lord is
called 'the Word', for the Word is Divine truth."
- Apocalypse Explained 411:4
"Whether you say 'the Lord's Divine Human' or 'the Divine truth,' it is the same,
since the Lord when He was in the world was the Divine truth itself, and when He went out
of the world He made Himself Divine good, from which is the Divine truth."
-- Arcana Coelestia 10258:4
"Nothing whatever of Doctrine can proceed from the Divine itself except through
the Divine Human, that is, through the Word, which, in the supreme sense, is the Divine
truth from the Lord's Divine Human."
- Arcana Coelestia 5321:2
"What proceeds from the Lord is the Lord ..."
- Arcana Coelestia 9407:12
"The internal sense ... is the soul of the Word, and is the Divine truth itself
proceeding from the Lord; thus it is the Lord Himself."
- Arcana Coelestia 9349:2
"In order that it may be known how the case is with the doctrine of faith, viz.,
that it is spiritual from a celestial origin, it is to be observed that that Doctrine is
Divine truth from the Divine good, consequently Divine throughout (in totum). What is
Divine is incomprehensible ... but still this Divine which is incomprehensible can inflow
into man's rational through the Divine Human of the Lord, and while it inflows into his
rational it is received there according to the truths which are there.... As the Lord is
the Divine good, so also He is the Divine truth; thus He is the Doctrine itself."
- Arcana Coelestia 2531
"Inasmuch as the Lord is the Word, He also is the Doctrine, for there can be no
other Doctrine which is itself Divine."
- Arcana Coelestia 2533
"'And she gave birth to a male Son' signifies the Doctrine of the New Church ...
The Doctrine which is here meant is the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem (published in
London, 1758) ; also the Doctrines concerning the Lord, the Sacred Scripture and Life
(Amsterdam, 1763) .... For by 'the Doctrine' are meant all the truths of the Doctrine,
because the Doctrine is their complex. When these Doctrines were being written, the
Dragonists stood around me, and combined with all their fury to devour, that is, to
extinguish them."
- Apocalypse Revealed 543
"It was also told [the bishop] that the work is not mine but the Lord's Who wished
to reveal the nature (quale) of heaven and hell, [etc.] ... And I also told him that this
[revelation] is the 'male child' whom the woman brought forth and whom the dragon wished
to devour."
- Spiritual Diary 6101:2
"'And she brought forth a male son'. This signifies the Doctrine of truth which is
for the New Church that is called the New Jerusalem ...That 'the male son' signifies the
Doctrine of the church, is because 'a son' in the Word signifies truth, and the Doctrine
of the church is truth in the whole complex."
- Apocalypse Explained 724:1, 3
"Hence also it is that as the Lord is the Word, so also is He the Doctrine of the
Church; for all Doctrine is from the Word."
- Apocalypse Explained 19
"It is said [in the title] , 'The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem', and what is
meant there is the Doctrine for the New Church which is at this day to be instaurated by
the Lord; for the old church has arrived at its end ..."
- Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, preface.
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