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1 A kad On vide narod, pope se na goru, i sede, i pristupiše Mu učenici Njegovi.

2 I otvorivši usta svoja učaše ih govoreći:

3 Blago siromašnima duhom, jer je njihovo carstvo nebesko;

4 Blago onima koji plaču, jer će se utešiti;

5 Blago krotkima, jer će naslediti zemlju;

6 Blago gladnima i žednima pravde, jer će se nasititi;

7 Blago milostivima, jer će biti pomilovani;

8 Blago onima koji su čistog srca, jer će Boga videti;

9 Blago onima koji mir grade, jer će se sinovi Božji nazvati;

10 Blago prognanima pravde radi, jer je njihovo carstvo nebesko.

11 Blago vama ako vas uzasramote i usprogone i kažu na vas svakojake rđave reči lažući, mene radi.

12 Radujte se i veselite se, jer je velika plata vaša na nebesima, jer su tako progonili proroke pre vas.

13 Vi ste so zemlji; ako so obljutavi, čim će se osoliti? Ona većneće biti nizašta, osim da se prospe napolje i da je ljudi pogaze.

14 Vi ste videlo svetu; ne može se grad sakriti kad na gori stoji.

15 Niti se užiže sveća i meće pod sud nego na svećnjak, te svetli svima koji su u kući.

16 Tako da se svetli vaše videlo pred ljudima, da vide vaša dobra dela, i slave Oca vašeg koji je na nebesima.

17 Ne mislite da sam ja došao da pokvarim zakon ili proroke: nisam došao da pokvarim, nego da ispunim.

18 Jer vam zaista kažem: dokle nebo i zemlja stoji, neće nestati ni najmanje slovce ili jedna titla iz zakona dok se sve ne izvrši.

19 Ako ko pokvari jednu od ovih najmanjih zapovesti i nauči tako ljude, najmanji nazvaće se u carstvu nebeskom; a ko izvrši i nauči, taj će se veliki nazvati u carstvu nebeskom.

20 Jer vam kažem da ako ne bude veća pravda vaša nego književnika i fariseja, nećete ući u carstvo nebesko.

21 Čuli ste kako je kazano starima: Ne ubij; jer ko ubije, biće kriv sudu.

22 A ja vam kažem da će svaki koji se gnevi na brata svog nizašta, biti kriv sudu; a ako li ko reče bratu svom: Raka! Biće kriv skupštini; a ko reče: Budalo! Biće kriv paklu ognjenom.

23 Zato dakle ako prineseš dar svoj k oltaru, i onde se opomeneš da brat tvoj ima nešto na te,

24 Ostavi onde dar svoj pred oltarom, i idi pre te se pomiri s bratom svojim, pa onda dođi i prinesi dar svoj.

25 Miri se sa suparnikom svojim brzo, dok si na putu s njim, da te suparnik ne preda sudiji, a sudija da te ne preda sluzi i u tamnicu da te ne stave.

26 Zaista ti kažem: nećeš izaći odande dok ne daš do poslednjeg dinara.

27 Čuli ste kako je kazano starima: Ne čini preljube.

28 A ja vam kažem da svaki koji pogleda na ženu sa željom, većje učinio preljubu u srcu svom.

29 A ako te oko tvoje desno sablažnjava, iskopaj ga i baci od sebe: jer ti je bolje da pogine jedan od udova tvojih negoli sve telo tvoje da bude bačeno u pakao.

30 I ako te desna ruka tvoja sablažnjava, odseci je i baci od sebe: jer ti je bolje da pogine jedan od udova tvojih negoli sve telo tvoje da bude bačeno u pakao.

31 Tako je kazano: Ako ko pusti ženu svoju, da joj da knjigu raspusnu.

32 A ja vam kažem da svaki koji pusti ženu svoju, osim za preljubu, navodi je te čini preljubu; i koji puštenicu uzme preljubu čini.

33 Još ste čuli kako je kazano starima: Ne kuni se krivo, a ispuni šta si se Gospodu zakleo.

34 A ja vam kažem: ne kunite se nikako: ni nebom, jer je presto Božji;

35 Ni zemljom, jer je podnožje nogama Njegovim; ni Jerusalimom, jer je grad velikog Cara.

36 Ni glavom svojom ne kuni se, jer ne možeš dlake jedne bele ili crne učiniti.

37 Dakle neka bude vaša reč: da - da; ne - ne; a šta je više od ovog, oda zla je.

38 Čuli ste da je kazano: Oko za oko, i zub za zub.

39 A ja vam kažem da se ne branite oda zla, nego ako te ko udari po desnom tvom obrazu, obrni mu i drugi;

40 I koji hoće da se sudi s tobom i košulju tvoju da uzme, podaj mu i haljinu.

41 I ako te potera ko jedan sat, idi s njime dva.

42 Koji ište u tebe, podaj mu; i koji hoće da mu uzajmiš, ne odreci mu.

43 Čuli ste da je kazano: Ljubi bližnjeg svog, i mrzi na neprijatelja svog.

44 A ja vam kažem: ljubite neprijatelje svoje, blagosiljajte one koji vas kunu, činite dobro onima koji na vas mrze i molite se Bogu za one koji vas gone;

45 Da budete sinovi Oca svog koji je na nebesima; jer On zapoveda svom suncu, te obasjava i zle i dobre, i daje dažd pravednima i nepravednima.

46 Jer ako ljubite one koji vas ljube, kakvu platu imate? Ne čine li to i carinici?

47 I ako Boga nazivate samo svojoj braći, šta odviše činite? Ne čine li tako i neznabošci?

48 Budite vi dakle savršeni, kao što je savršen Otac vaš nebeski.

   

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Conjugial Love # 316

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316. The second account:

Walking once with tranquil heart in a pleasantly peaceful state of mind, I saw in the distance a wood, which had in the midst of it an enclosed path leading to a little palace; and I saw young women and men and husbands and wives going in. I, too, in the spirit went over there, and I asked one of the keepers standing at the entrance of the path whether I might go in as well. He stared at me; and so I asked, "Why are you staring at me?"

"I am examining you," he replied, "to see whether the pleasant state of peace reflected in your face draws any of its character from a pleasant delight in conjugial love. After this path there is a little garden, and in the middle of it a house with a newly married couple in it. Their friends are coming here today to wish them happiness and joy. I do not know the people I am allowing to enter, but I was told I would recognize them from their faces. If I saw in them a delight in conjugial love, I was to let them in, and no one else."

Every angel can see from others' faces what the delights of their heart are; and because I was thinking about conjugial love, it was a delight in that love that he saw in my face. This contemplation of mine shone from my eyes and lent an inner glow to my face, so that he told me I might go in.

[2] The enclosed path through which I went was lined with fruit trees joined together by interlocking branches, thus forming an unbroken wall of trees on either side. Through this pathway I entered the little garden, which exhaled a pleasant fragrance from its bushes and flowers. The bushes and flowers grew in pairs; and I learned that gardens of this sort appear around houses where weddings are being or have been celebrated, on which account they are called wedding gardens.

After that I went into the house, and there I saw the married couple holding each other by the hand and speaking to each other out of truly conjugial love. Moreover, from their faces I was given to see then an image of conjugial love, and from their conversation, its vibrancy.

Later, when I among many others had expressed my prayers for them and wished them happiness and joy, I went out into the wedding garden; and I saw on the right side of it a group of young men, to which all who left the house went hurrying over. They all hurried over there because they were having a conversation about conjugial love, and this conversation drew the hearts of all with a kind of hidden force to it. I listened then to a wise person in the group speaking about that love, and what I heard was in summary the following:

[3] "The Lord's Divine providence is most specific and therefore most universal in connection with marriages and in its operation in marriages in heaven, because all blessings of heaven flow from the delights of conjugial love, like sweet waters from a sweetly gushing spring. It is therefore provided by the Lord that conjugial pairs be born, and they are raised and continually prepared for their marriages, neither the boy nor the girl being aware of the fact. Then, after a period of time, the girl - now a marriageable young woman - and the boy - now a young man able to marry - meet somewhere, as though by fate, and notice each other. And they immediately recognize, as if by a kind of instinct, that they are a match, thinking to themselves from a kind of inner dictate, the young man, 'she is mine,' and the young woman, 'he is mine.' Later, after this thought has for some time become settled in the minds of each, they deliberately talk about it together and pledge themselves to each other in marriage.

"We say as though by fate and as if by instinct, when we mean by Divine providence, because when one is unaware that it is Divine providence, that is how it appears."

With respect to his statement that conjugial pairs are born, raised and prepared for their marriages without their knowing, the speaker supported it by the conjugial similarity visible in the faces of a couple, also by the innermost and eternal union of their hearts and minds, neither of which would be possible the way they are in heaven unless foreseen and provided by the Lord.

[4] Having said this - to which the group responded with applause - the wise person speaking went on to say that there is a conjugial element in the smallest particulars in every person, both male and female; only that the conjugial element in the male and the conjugial element in the female are not the same, but the conjugial element of the male possesses a capacity for conjunction with the conjugial element of the female, and vice versa, even in the least particulars.

This he showed by the marriage of will and understanding in every individual, the two of which operate together in the least constituents of the mind and in the least constituents of the body; from which it can be seen that there is a conjugial element in each component, even the least. "This is also made evident," he said, "from the composite organs of the body which are formed from its elemental constituents. We find, for example, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two cheeks, two lips, two arms and hands, two legs, two feet; and inside the body, two hemispheres of the brain, two ventricles of the heart, two lungs, two kidneys, two testicles. Even when an organ is not paired, still it exhibits a division into two parts. The reason there are these sets of two is that one is connected with the will and the other with the intellect, which operate in conjunction with each other so marvelously that they give the appearance of being one. Thus the two eyes produce one power of sight, the two ears one power of hearing, the two nostrils one sense of smell, the two lips one speech, the two hands one labor, the two feet one gait, the two hemispheres of the brain one habitation of the mind, the two chambers of the heart one life of the body through the blood, the two lungs one respiration, and so on. Only that in the case of a married couple, the masculine element and feminine element united by truly conjugial love produce one life that is fully human."

[5] As he was saying this, a shaft of lightning appeared in the sky to our right having a red color, and another shaft of lightning to our left that was white, neither of them very intense. These entered through our eyes into our minds and illumined them as well. Then, following these, we heard the sound of thunder - in actuality a low murmur coming from the angelic heaven and growing louder in its descent.

Hearing it, and having seen the lightning, the wise person speaking said, "These are meant for me as a signal and admonition to add to my discussion something further, that in the twinned pairs of organs I have mentioned, the one on the right symbolizes the good connected with the two, and the one on the left the truth connected with them; and that this is owing to the marriage of good and truth engraved on each person in his whole being and in his every least part, good having relation to the will and truth to the understanding, and the two together to a union of these. For this reason, in heaven 'the right eye' means the good connected with sight, and 'the left eye' the truth connected with it. So, too, 'the right ear' means the good connected with hearing, and 'the left ear' the truth connected with it. Similarly, 'the right hand' means the good connected with a person's strength, and 'the left hand' the truth connected with it. And so on with the rest of these twinned pairs.

"Moreover, because 'right' and 'left' have these symbolic associations, the Lord said:

If your right eye causes you to slip, pluck it out.... And if your right hand causes you to slip, cut it off.... 1

"He meant by this that if something good is turned to evil, it should be cast away.

"For the same reason He also told His disciples to cast their net on the right side of the boat, and when they did so, they caught a great number of fish. 2 And by this He meant they should teach the good of charity, and by doing so would gather in people."

[6] Following these remarks, the two shafts of lightning appeared again, still less intense than before. And we saw then that the lightning on the left drew the whiteness of its light from the reddish fire of the lightning on the right.

Seeing this, the speaker said, "It is a sign from heaven confirming what I have said, because something fiery in heaven means something good, and something white there means something true. As for our having seen that the lightning on the left drew the whiteness of its light from the reddish fire of the lightning on the right, this is visible evidence that the whiteness of light or light itself is nothing other than the luminance of fire."

At the end of this discourse, all in the group were fired with a joyful state of goodness and truth inspired by the shafts of lightning and what they had been told concerning them, and in this state they departed for home.

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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.