This is Volume 2 

A Man of the Field

Forming The New Church Mind In Todayís World

 

 

Volume 2: Enlightenment

The Spiritual Sense of the Writings

 

Volume 1: Reformation

The Struggle Against Nonduality

 

Volume 3: Regeneration

Spiritual Disciplines For Daily Life

 

Volume 4: Uses

The New Church Mind In Old Age

 

By Leon James

October 2002

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A ìfieldî means doctrine (AC 368)

A "man" signifies faith and truth (AC 427; 4823)

Because 'field' means doctrine anyone receiving any seed of faith, whether the individual, the Church, or the world, is called a field. (AC 368)

 

 

Volume 2

Enlightenment

Extracting The Spiritual Sense of the Writings

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Access Volume 1 here. 5

Access Volume 3 here. 5

Preface to Volume 2. 5

DEDICATION.. 10

Chapter 1. 12

The Spiritual Sense Of The Writings Demystified. 12

1. Introduction. 12

2. A Diagram Showing The Formation Of The New Church Mind. 17

3. The Operation Of Reformation, Enlightenment, Regeneration. 18

4. The Nine Installation Steps. 21

5. Doctrine Is The Reception Of Spiritual Information Packets. 26

6. Biology Of The Spiritual Doctrine. 26

7. Diagram Of The Discrete Levels In The Mind and the Writings. 28

8. The Spiritual Doctrine is Heaven and the Lord In Us. 30

9. Why The Spiritual Doctrine In Our Mind Must Be A Divine Doctrine. 34

10. Objections To The Divine Doctrine In Our Mind. 37

11. The Spiritual Doctrine In The Mind Must Be Proven By The Letter 40

12. Man Enters Heaven Through The Church. 42

13. Demystifying The Divinity Of The Spiritual Doctrine. 45

14. The Divine Rational Cannot Be Approached In The Letter 47

15. Examples Of Enlightenment In Everyday Circumstances. 50

16. Surface Meaning And Underlying Meaning Of Sentences. 52

17. The Divinity Of The Spiritual Sense We Extract From The Letter 58

18. The Spiritual Sense Of Ecclesiastical And Civil Government 62

19. Anatomy Diagram Of The Spiritual Doctrine in the Mind. 63

20. The Difference Between The Spiritual Sense And The Spiritual Doctrine. 66

21. The Physiology Of Spiritual Enlightenment 67

22. Enlightenment Is Not A Mysterious Process. 72

23. Spiritual-Rational Meditations. 76

24. The Internal Meaning Of Music And Art 80

25. The Difference Between Natural And Spiritual Language. 83

26. The Spiritual Doctrine Cannot Be Used For Politics And Morality. 85

27. ìWithin The Naturalî Vs. ìIn The Natural.î. 86

28. Spiritual Topics Vs. Spiritual Meanings. 88

29. Diagram Of Natural Vs. Spiritual Understanding Of The Writings. 89

30. The Divinity Of The Spiritual Doctrine. 93

31. The Substitution Technique For Teaching The Spiritual Doctrine. 97

32. The Correspondence Technique For Teaching The Spiritual Doctrine. 100

33. The Dangers Of Remaining In The Letter OF the Writings. 104

34. The Doctrinals Taught In The Church Are In a Natural Language. 108

35. The Fear of the Divinity of Doctrine in Our Understanding. 111

36. The Lord Is Divine Doctrine. 114