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L'Ecole des Mysteres.

Fantastic, about Swedenborg !!

Amersfoort

By Daniel van Egmond

I should translate it. Very good.

A Swedenborgian Church in Wilmington

LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Because it was Catholic, stupid!

LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Because it was Catholic, stupid!: "The vicar and parishioners of St Cadoc's (Church of Wales) Church in Llancarfan, near Cardiff are excited about finding 'mind blowing' rare ..."

What is sin?

Sin is nothing but the failure to recognize human wretchedness. - Simone Weil

A revelation, an understanding of sin and evil liberates us from sin and evil.

A denial of the existence of sin and evil, make us one day fall into it and be enslaved.

Swedenborg shines a tremendous light on this. i shall write of it another time.

I believe it is one of the revolutionary changes

The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. 

It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

I must say that there's  a precious paragraph of Swedenborg somewhere where he says that in fact, it is not the human being that is evil, but that he is continuously seduced by the evil spirits, up to the moment when he wants to shun the evil, and then with Jesus help it is possible.

I think this difference is very important.

Suffering

The chief use of suffering is to teach me that i am nothing - Simone Weil

This is at least the useful effect of suffering.
I don't agree with somethings that Simone says, because i believe that we are the ones who create the big suffering in the world. i don't believe this just like that: I have experienced deep suffering and I have learned and lived this !!!!
God can not do something about it because it all belongs to the results of our choices.

I don't believe that it is God that sends me the suffering, or that all that happens is according to God.

I think to believe that is one of the great mistakes of religion. It is in this way that people then didn't change what needed to be changed, and what could be changed.

I need to develop this....

It constitutes one of the central parts of my view.