Outline 6.3.1.1.1. (V) The Divine Psychologist and Our Character Reformation and (VI) Societal Consequences of Individual Effort

 

 

 

I.                    Divine Love

 

a.       Motive of DP in interacting with each individual mind through revealing spiritual truths to fight false ideas, fantasies, and evils.

 

b.      Divine Instructions in Doctrine of Truth

 

                                                               i.      Follow in order to achieve enlightenment

 

                                                             ii.      Enlightenment > process of regeneration (lifelong process)

 

                                                            iii.      Utilize self-witnessing & self-modification

 

II.                 Willing Evil

 

a.       Hellish feelings

 

b.      Deposited into spiritual hells in spiritual mind

 

c.       Communication b/w natural & spiritual mind through mediate influx through laws of correspondence b/w natural heavens & spiritual heavens = vertical community

 

III.               Divine Child

 

a.       Created natural heavens in natural mind during Incarnation Event

 

b.      Evolutionary portion located in interior discrete degree of the natural mind also connected to spiritual hells

 

c.       Created interior structure of the natural mind in Himself as interior natural organ

 

d.      Purpose of spiritual natural organ: to be opened to regeneration and daily discipline of self-witnessing and self-modification of intentions, thoughts, and deeds.

 

e.       Mediate influx- activated by those already eternal conjugial habitations in their mind

 

IV.              When are the natural hells built?

 

a.       Every time we will evil and think falsity along with it

 

b.      Natural heavens are built every time we will good & think truth according to Divine Speech (spiritual hells & heavens in spiritual mind contain permanent roots of each.

 

V.                 What are the operations of the affective organ

 

a.       Activated by spiritual heat & how it is received

 

b.      Spiritual heat = spiritual substance called “good”

 

VI.              What are the operations of the cognitive organ?

 

a.       Activated by spiritual light & how it is received

 

b.      Spiritual light surrounds spiritual heat = spiritual substance called “truth”

 

VII.            Cognitive and Affective organ similar functions

 

a.       Both are from Divine Human

 

b.      Both are in infinite variety and are able to function as organic receptor for spiritual heat/good or spiritual light/truth.

 

c.       When spiritual light in cognitive organ = state of rationality

 

d.      When spiritual heat in affective organ = state of “liberty” or free will

 

VIII.         Spiritual Heavens

 

a.       Created within our unconscious spiritual mind only in conjunction with cognitive and affective organs.

 

b.      Conscious enlightenment in rational understanding created by DP in natural mind by connecting conscious understanding & rational ideas based in spiritual mind.

 

IX.              Daily Experience

 

a.       We oscillate b/w our heavenly and hellish traits

 

b.      Heavenly and Hellish traits located in separate and isolated parts of the brain.

 

X.                 Swedenborg’s accounts of the “societies of heaven”

 

a.       Each society having its own identity and symbolically expressed as the Society’s official logo recognized by other societies.

 

b.      Individuals that inhabit collectivity are unique

 

c.       Society has hierarchy of affections, loves and truths