Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem from the Commandments of the Decalogue

9781417947553

1417947551

1825. Emanuel Swedenborg, the noted Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian, is best known for his later writings in which he presents ideas both Christian and ecumenical, for a new spiritual era or new church to be known as the New Jerusalem. Contents: That all Religion has Relation to Life and that the Life of Religion is to do Good; That No One Can do Good, which is really Good, from himself; That So Far as Man Shuns Evils as Sins, so far He Does What is Good, not from Himself, but from the Lord; That So Far as any one Shuns Evils as Sins, so far he loves Truths; That So Far as any one Shuns Evils as Sins, so far he has Faith and is Spiritual; That the Decalogue Teaches What Evils are Sins; That Murders, Adulteries, Thefts, and False Witness of Every Kind, with the Concupiscences Prompting Thereto, are Evils which Ought to be Shunned as Sins; That So Far as any one Shuns Murders of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He has Love Towards His Neighbor; That So as any one Shuns Adulteries of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He Loves Chastity; and That So Far as any one Shuns Thefts of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He Loves Sincerity. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.