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Ezekiel 2 - A Tour of the Temple

By Todd Beiswenger


Ut pergas pasco dum audis, audi in fenestra nova.

God does not always require us to operate solely on faith, and in fact at times will lay out very clear evidence for the wrong doings of humanity. As God calls Ezekiel to be a prophet, we see that God lays out the case against Jerusalem and that what they thought was hidden from God was in fact well known by Him.

(Notae: Ezekiel 8)

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Ezekiel 8:2

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2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #511

Studere hoc loco

  
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511. Because perceptivity diminished, and from being quite clear or definite became increasingly general or vague, the life inherent in love or forms of use diminished too. For what applies to the life inherent in love or forms of use consequently applies to perceptivity too. It is celestial to know from good what truth is. The life also of the people who belonged to the Church called Mahalalel was such that they preferred pleasure obtained from truths to the joy derived from forms of use. This I have been given to know from experience in the next life from persons of a similar nature.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.