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結婚愛 #1

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1. ここに書き記してあること、また各章に続くメモを読まれる方々のなかには、それが想像の産物だと思われる人が多いかもしれません。しかしこれが創作ではなく、実際にあったこと見たことであることを、わたしは本心をもって断言します。見たと言っても、睡眠中に見たのではなく、完全な覚醒状態の中で見た事実です。

主は思し召しによって、わたしにご自身を啓示なさいました。そしてやがて生まれる新教会 Nova Ecclesia について教えるためにわたしをお遣わしになりました。黙示録にある「新しいエルサレム」とは、その新教会を指します。その目的があって、主はわたしの精神と霊の内部をお開きになりました。それで自然の世界の人たちともつきあいつつ、霊界で天使たちといっしょになるチャンスがわたしに与えられました。

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True Christian Religion #850

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850. After this I saw some people coming up from the underworld, from where this discussion had taken place. They addressed me in a serious tone of voice and said: 'Why did your Lord reveal to you, who are a layman, the long list of secrets you have quoted, and not to one of the clergy?' I answered to this that this was the Lord's good pleasure, and that He had prepared me for this task from early manhood. 'However, let me ask you a question in return: why did the Lord, when He was in the world choose fishermen as His disciples and not some of the lawyers, scribes, priests or rabbis? Discuss this question among yourselves, and if you come to a judicious conclusion, you will discover the reason.' When they heard this there was some murmuring, and afterwards silence.

  
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The Bible

 

Acts of the Apostles 11:30

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30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.