The Divine Perception
The Divine Perception

Author: Sandra Cuevas De Gracia

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1098044762

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An interpretation of God's love and human identity. Based on "A Course in Miracles" and the "Bible". With great love and joy during His new creation, God included the tree of life in the middle of the Garden of Eden. God's plan of perfect love was for Adam and Eve to deny the temptation to sin and never to learn about evil. Hence, they would be able to eat from the tree of life and inherit immortality to humankind.In this book, we analyze how human life would have been if sin did not exist and how humans, through their divine perception, can see beyond their human perception. Dressed with their divine perception, they acquire the internal feeling of perfect peace, love, and joy. This is produced when the awareness of God is present in daily living.Also analyzed is how the devil hates the children of God, thus offering them an evil perception, and how he creates personalized sins for each human being. Humans who are deceived want to be gods of their own will. Thus, they deny their love to God, to creation, and to humanity. By denying their love, unknowingly, they deny love to themselves. In this manner, the devil keeps humans in a state of anguish and depression with the goal to destroy them.The devil's goal is for humans to commit suicide or wish the death of others. When humans decide to ask God for forgiveness of their sins and they reject their sinful will, then they recover their divine perception. As they remember God and accept God as their Creator, their spirits are filled with love. They then realize that the only responsibility of God's children is to forgive and love.

Perceiving Things Divine
Perceiving Things Divine

Author: Frederick D. Aquino

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0198802595

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Sensory language is commonly used to describe human encounters with the divine. Scripture, for example, employs perceptual language like 'taste and see that the Lord is good', 'hear the word of the Lord', and promises that 'the pure in heart will see God'. Such statements seem to point to certain features of human cognition that make perception-like contact with divine things possible. But how precisely should these statements be construed? Can the elusive notion of 'spiritual perception' survive rigorous theological and philosophical scrutiny and receive a constructive articulation? Perceiving Things Divine seeks to make philosophical and theological sense of spiritual perception. Reflecting the results of the second phase of the Spiritual Perception Project, this volume argues for the possibility of spiritual perception. It also seeks to make progress towards a constructive account of the different aspects of spiritual perception while exploring its intersection with various theological and philosophical themes, such as biblical interpretation, aesthetics, liturgy, race, ecology, eschatology, and the hiddenness of God. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume draws on the resources of value theory, philosophy of perception, epistemology, philosophy of art, psychology, systematic theology, and theological aesthetics. The volume also draws attention to how spiritual perception may be affected by such distortions as pornographic sensibility and racial prejudice. Since perceiving spiritually involves the whole person, the volume proposes that spiritual perception could be purified by ascetic discipline, healed by contemplative practices, trained in the process of spiritual direction and the pursuit of virtue, transformed by the immersion in the sacramental life, and healed by opening the self to the operation of divine grace.

Delphi Collected Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (Illustrated)

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 16103

ISBN-13: 1801700273

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Emanuel Swedenborg, an eighteenth century Christian mystic, philosopher and theologian, had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, culminating in a "spiritual awakening" in which he received a revelation that Christ had appointed him to reform Christianity. Swedenborg devoted his enormous energy to interpreting the Bible and to relating what he had seen and heard in the world of spirits and angels. His ‘Arcana Cœlestia’ and ‘Apocalypse Revealed’ provide thought-provoking commentaries on the internal spiritual meaning of Genesis, Exodus and the Book of Revelation, while his famous ‘Heaven and Hell’ gives a mesmerising account of the afterlife and how people live after the death of the physical body. This comprehensive eBook presents Swedenborg’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Swedenborg’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All of the major theological treaties, with individual contents tables * Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare translation of the author’s enigmatic ‘Journal of Dreams’, discovered many years after his death * Features three biographies, including Benjamin Worcester’s seminal study – discover Swedenborg’s incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books Arcana Cœlestia (1749-1756) Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell (1758) The Last Judgment (1758) The White Horse (1758) Earths in the Universe (1758) The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine (1758) The Athanasian Creed (1759) De Domino (1760) Prophets and Psalms (1761) The Word of the Lord from Experience (1762) Last Judgment Posthumous (1762) The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Lord (1763) Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture (1763) Doctrine of Life (1763) Doctrine of Faith (1763) Continuation of The Last Judgement (1763) Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom (1763) Divine Providence (1764) Charity (1766) Apocalypse Revealed (1766) The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love (1768) God the Saviour (1768) Canons (1769) Brief Exposition (1769) Interaction of the Soul and the Body (1769) Coronis (1771) Invitation to the New Church (1771) True Christian Religion (1771) Journal of Dreams (1859) The Gist of Swedenborg (1920) The Biographies Emanuel Swedenborg, Servus Domini (1904) by John Bigelow Swedenborg: Harbinger of the New Age of the Christian Church (1910) by Benjamin Worcester Emanuel Swedenborg (1911) by Alexander James Grieve Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks