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영적 유도

Da New Christian Bible Study Staff (tradotto automaticamente in 한국어)

Making a spiritual journey is like entering a judo arena.

유도는 상대의 추진력을 이용해 균형을 잃고 바닥에 넘어뜨리는 훈련을 합니다. 전투에서 승리하기 위해 더 크거나 강할 필요는 없습니다.

우리 각자에게는 영적인 유도 경기장이 있습니다. 우리가 악을 피하고 진리를 배우며 선을 행하려고 노력하기 시작할 때 우리는 경기장에 들어서는 것입니다. 우리는 시합과 전투에 참여하게 됩니다.

우리는 상대방(거짓을 믿고 악한 것을 사랑하는 우리의 낡고 이기적인 마음/자기 자신)이 우리의 새로운 추진력을 이용해 우리를 균형을 잃고 넘어뜨리려고 할 것이라고 예상할 수 있습니다. 악을 한두 번 성공적으로 피하면 자기 축하라는 악에 빠지게 될 것입니다. 만약 우리가 흥미진진한 새로운 진리를 알게 된다면, 그것은 우리 자신의 지능에 대한 자부심에 더욱 빠져들게 할 것입니다. 몇 번 실패하면 절망에 빠지거나 프로젝트 전체를 포기하게 됩니다.

이러한 유도 전술을 예상할 수 있다면 균형을 유지하는 데 더 잘할 수 있을까요? 네, 물론이죠. 우리는 우리가 영적인 영역, 영적인 전투 또는 유혹에 처해 있다는 것을 인식할 수 있습니다. 우리는 말씀을 시금석으로 삼고, 우리가 사랑하고 신뢰하는 사람들로부터 조언과 지원을 받으면서 균형을 유지하려고 노력할 수 있습니다. 우리는 선한 일에 대한 새로운 사랑과 일치하는 진리를 배우면서 지나치지 않게 움직일 수 있습니다. 우리는 반복해서 연습하고 낙심하지 않을 수 있습니다.

유도는 성경에 언급되어 있지 않지만, 유도를 살펴보면 그 기술을 볼 수 있습니다:

구약성서에는 아론, 엘리, 사무엘과 같은 선한 대제사장이 악한 아들을 두었지만 그들을 통제하지 못한 이야기가 세 번 나옵니다. 처음에는 강하고 선한 노력이 부주의나 교만 또는 소홀한 연습으로 인해 균형을 잃게 됩니다. (참조 레위기 10:1-2, 1 사무엘 2:12-34, 그리고 1 사무엘 8:1-3)

이스라엘의 가장 유명한 세 왕인 사울, 다윗, 솔로몬은 모두 시작은 좋았지만 권력, 교만, 부의 유혹에 빠져 타락해 버립니다.

또 다른 사례로, 출애굽 당시 모세는 이스라엘 자손을 이끌고 이집트에서 가나안 땅으로 향했습니다. 그는 주님의 명령에 순종하며 잘 지내고 있었습니다. 하지만 메리바에서 그는 조급해져서 주님에 대한 신뢰를 잃고 스스로 문제를 해결하려고 합니다. 그 결과 그는 약속의 땅에 들어갈 수 없게 됩니다. (참조 민수기 20:6-13)

스웨덴보그의 저서 "새 예루살렘과 그 천국 교리"에는 유혹에 관한 장이 다음과 같은 섹션에서 시작됩니다. 196. 섹션에서 197 이 문장을 발견했습니다:

"유혹은 내적 또는 영적 인간과 외적 또는 자연적 인간 사이의 싸움입니다 ( 천국의 신비 2183, 4256)"

영적 성장을 시작하면 유도 경기장에 들어서는 것과 같습니다. 새롭게 형성되는 영적 자아는 습관적인 "자연적" 자아와 싸울 것입니다. 여러분은 균형을 유지하기 위해 싸우게 될 것이며, 영적인 싸움을 하고 있다는 사실을 계속 인식한다면 악과 거짓을 균형을 잃고 땅에 떨어뜨릴 수 있는 방법도 볼 수 있을 것입니다.

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Arcana Coelestia #4255

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4255. 'For with just my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps' means that from having little He now had much. This is clear from the meaning of 'a staff' as power - a word used in reference to truth, and dealt with in 4013, 4015; from the meaning of 'Jordan' as introduction into cognitions of good and truth, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'two camps' as goods and truths, as above in 4250 - the two camps referred to here consisting of the people, flocks, herds, and camels, which he split into two groups. From this one may see what these words mean in the proximate sense - that when being introduced into cognitions He had only a small amount of truth but subsequently He had many truths and goods; or what amounts to the same, from having little He now had much. From the explanations given up to now it is evident that the subject in the internal sense has been the way in which the Lord made the Human within Him Divine, doing so step by step in keeping with order. So the subject has been His advance into intelligence and wisdom, at length into Divine intelligence and wisdom. This shows what the phrase 'from having little He now had much' is used to mean.

[2] The reason 'the Jordan' means introduction into cognitions of good and truth is that it was a boundary to the land of Canaan. For all the boundaries of that land meant things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom, and also those that are first and last in the Church, and so those that are first and last in the celestial and spiritual things which constitute the Lord's kingdom and His Church, see 1585, 1866, 4116, 4240. Therefore, being a boundary, 'the Jordan' meant introduction into cognitions of good and truth, for these come first; but when at length a person becomes in himself a Church or the Lord's kingdom they come to be last.

[3] That 'the Jordan' means things that are first and those that are last may be seen from other places in the Word, as in David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 1 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

'Remembering from the land of Jordan' stands for doing so from what is last and so from a position of humbleness. In the same author,

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominions. The sea saw and fled; the Jordan turned about backwards. Psalms 114:2-3, 5.

'Judah' stands for the good of celestial love, and 'Israel' for the good of spiritual love, 3654. 'The sea' stands for cognitions of truth, 28, 'the Jordan' stands for cognitions of good which are said 'to turn about backwards' when the good of love gains dominion, for in that case cognitions are viewed from that good, not the good from those cognitions - in accordance with the things that have often been shown already.

[4] In the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

'Gilead' stands for the sensory good or pleasure by means of which a person is first introduced into the path of his regeneration, 4117, 4124. 'Dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan' stands for the things effecting that introduction, and so things that are first and last in the Church and the Lord's kingdom. These introductory things were also represented by 'the Jordan' when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan, Joshua 3:14-end; 4:1-end; for 'the land of Canaan' represented the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3686, 3705.

And the dividing of the Jordan and their passing through on dry ground meant the removal of evils and falsities and the admission into the Lord's kingdom of those who are governed by goods and truths. Similar in meaning is the dividing of the waters of the Jordan by Elijah when he was carried up into heaven, 2 Kings 2:8, and by Elisha when he entered in place of Elijah into the prophetic role, 2 Kings 2:14.

[5] The cure of Naaman's leprosy, effected by his having washed himself seven times in the Jordan according to Elisha's command, 2 Kings 5:1-14, represented baptism, for baptism means introduction into the Church and into the things that belong to the Church, and so into regeneration and the things that belong to regeneration. Not that anyone is regenerated by baptism; rather it is the sign of it, which he should call to mind. And because the things which constitute the Church are meant by baptism, and baptism is meant by 'the Jordan', as mentioned above, it was the Jordan therefore in which people were baptized by John, Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5. And the Lord too was willing to be baptized in it by John, Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9.

[6] Because 'the Jordan' means things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom and in the Church - such as the cognitions of good and truth, since these serve to introduce a person into His kingdom and Church - the Jordan is also for that reason referred to as a boundary of the new earth or holy land, in Ezekiel 47:18. The new earth or holy land means the Lord's kingdom and also the new Church which is the Lord's kingdom on earth, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end).

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