Explaining the Inner Meaning of Mark 11

Verses 1, 2. THAT the LORD, from His Divine Love, and by His Divine Truth, explores the principles of the rational man, requiring them to be separated from what is evil and false, and to receive influx of life from Himself.

Verse 3. And if the persuasions of the natural man oppose, they are to be overcome by teaching the necessity of such influx to restore Divine order.

Verses 4, 5, 6. Accordingly those persuasions are overcome, and the rational man is set at liberty to receive Divine influx.

Verses 7, 8. So that goods and truths in every complex, together with the perceptions of good and truth, are acknowledged to be from the LORD, and to be His.

Verses 9, 10. And all lower principles, both interior and exterior, exalt the Divine Humanity of the LORD, and whatever proceeds from it.

Verse 11. Since the church, and all things therein, are under the inspection of that Humanity, even at the last time of the church, when the LORD can no longer dwell in it, with His goods and truths.

Verses 12-14. For the LORD is ever in the desire of good in the church, and therefore if there be no such good, as was the case in the Jewish church, there can be nothing but truth falsified, which is incapable of producing any natural good from a spiritual origin.

Verses 15, 16. On which occasion the LORD effects a work of judgement, by separating from the church those who make gain of holy things, whether by truths or goods, and who defile the truths of the church by natural scientifics.

Verse 17. In which case, as the Word teaches, the purity of Divine worship in the church ceases, being supplanted by self-love.

Verse 18. Which is eager to destroy all the life of heavenly love and charity.

Verses 19-21. And however it may be principled in the doctrines of faith, is destitute of the real life of faith.

Verses 22, 23. Which faith is the Divine truth in man from the LORD, containing in it the Divine Omnipotence, so that whoever is principled in this faith has power to remove self-love and the love of the world, and cast them into hell.

Verse 24. And he also has all his desires granted, because he can desire nothing but what is in agreement with the Divine Will or Love.

Verses 25, 26. Every man therefore ought to regulate his desires by the spirit of charity, under the acknowledgement that as he extends mercy to others, so mercy will be extended from the LORD to him, and vice versa.

Verse 27-33. That the Divine power of the LORD, manifested in His Divine Humanity, cannot be seen and acknowledged, only so far as mankind are initiated into heavenly wisdom by submitting to the process of spiritual purification and regeneration which the Word teaches.