La Verdadera Religión Cristiana

La Teología Universal del Nuevo Cielo y de la Nueva Iglesia

ÍNDICE GENERAL DEL CONTENIDO

El Prefacio del Autor: La Fe del Nuevo Cielo y de la Nueva Iglesia

Capítulo 1 - Dios Creador

Capítulo 2 - El Señor, El Redentor, y La Redención

Capítulo 3 - El Espíritu Santo y la Divina Operación, y La Divina Trinidad

Capítulo 4 - La Sagrada Escritura

Capítulo 5 - El Decálogo explicado en su sentido externo e interno

Capítulo 6 - La Fe

Capítulo 7 - La Caridad (amor al prójimo) y las buenas obras

Capítulo 8 - El libre Albedrío

Capítulo 9 - El Arrepentimiento

Capítulo 10 - La Reformación y Regeneración

Capítulo 11 - La Imputación

Capítulo 12 - El Bautismo

Capítulo 13 - La Santa Cena

Capítulo 14 - La Consumación del Siglo, La Venida del Señor, El Nuevo Cielo y la Nueva Tierra

Apéndices

Nota Preliminar al lector:

Siéndome por varias razones imposible realizar mi deseo de presentar por ahora una traducción completa de La Verdadera Religión Cristiana, Y por otra parte convencido de que las verdades expuestas por Swedenborg en dicha obra, aun siendo presentadas en forma abreviada, han de prestar valioso servicio a los que con sinceridad buscan la verdad, ofrezco la presente abreviación, entre tanto que la traducción completa pueda efectuarse, deseando cordialmente que resulte un medio en la mano del Señor para bendecir a muchos.

En esta abreviación he procurado en lo posible ceñirme a la letra del original, empleando las palabras del mismo Swedenborg tanto como la forma abreviada lo ha permitido.

Jørgen Andersen, el Traductor

Sociedad Swedenborg Española

Para establecer y fomentar la Nueva Iglesia en España

Alameda, 1911

4850. 'The days were multiplied' means a change of state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the days being multiplied' as undergoing a change of state, for 'day' or a time in the internal sense means state, 23, 487, 488, 893a, 2788, 3462, 3785, and 'being multiplied' when used in reference to days or times means undergoing a change. The fact that a change of state is the meaning is also evident from the details that follow. The expression 'to be multiplied' is used because it implies a change of state so far as truths are concerned; for 'to be multiplied' is used in reference to truths, 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847. Since the terms state and change of state are being used time and again, and yet few know what a state or a change of state is, a statement needs to be made about what these are. Neither time and the passage of time nor space and the extension of space can be associated with the interior aspects of the human being - that is to say, with his affections and his thoughts formed by these - because his affections and thoughts are not located in time and place, though to the senses in the world they do seem to be thus located. Rather, they are located in the interior things which correspond to time and place. The things which correspond to them cannot be called anything else than states, for no other term exists to describe the things that correspond to time and place. A change of state in interior things is said to take place when the affections and resulting thoughts in a person's mind or disposition (mens seu animus) undergo change, as when sadness turns to joy, or joy back to sadness, when ungodliness turns to godliness or devotion, and so on. These changes are called changes of state and are attributable to affections and, insofar as thoughts are governed by these, to thoughts also. But the changes of state which thoughts held within affections undergo are like those of individual parts within their general wholes, compared with which they are variations.