Inside Off The Left Eye

We are excited to share a new podcast offering: the Latin Playground! Alongside translator Jonathan Rose, we delve into the nature of language, the nuances of Neo-Latin, and the spiritual experiences of the scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Search the Latin Playground wherever you listen to podcasts to learn with us as we explore the inextricable link between spiritual revelation and grammar. 

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Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

2798:2

It is also known that he was born to the Virgin Mary, but this was a birth like that of any other person. When he was born again—in other words, was made divine—it was from Jehovah, who was in him and who was the very essence of his life. The uniting of his divine and human natures was a mutual, reciprocal process, so that he united his divine nature with his hum...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

2799:5

In Hosea: I will strike a pact with them on that day—with the wild animal of the field, and with the bird in the heavens and the creeping animal of the ground. And bow and sword and war I will break off from the earth, and I will make them lie down securely. (Hosea 2:18) This is about the Lord’s kingdom. Breaking bow, sword, and war means that no one there fights...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3324:4

People who have no love for others cannot acknowledge the Lord, so they cannot acknowledge religious truth. If they claim to believe, they are being either superficial or hypocritical (2354). There is absolutely no faith without neighborly love (654, 1162, 1176, 2417).

3325:3

In the church, though, there are more people who are not regenerating than who are, and pe...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3304:2

Goodness but not truth is born into humans, with the result that babies lack any knowledge of truth. Truth has to be learned and then united with goodness.

3321:3

As a consequence of these facts and others, our earthly self accepts truth much later and with much more difficulty than our rational self does. The result is combat, which lasts quite a long time and doe...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3368:3

Let me explain the secret behind the command not to go down into Egypt but to stay as an immigrant in the land of Gerar—that is, not to focus on facts but on rational thinking: All appearances of truth containing something divine belong to the rational level—so much so that rational ideas are the same as appearances of truth. Facts, though, belong to the earthly ...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3122:1

More about this truth that means charity: The very earliest people, who were heavenly, understood the mercy and truth worked by the Lord in them to be simply an acceptance of the love for the Lord and the resulting charity toward others that flow into a person. The ancients, who were spiritual, understood the mercy and truth worked by the Lord in them to be chari...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3350:2

Then I heard numerous choirs putting forth various representations, and even though there were many choirs and many in each choir, they acted as one. The forms of the various contributions combined into a single whole filled with heavenly beauty.

The same effect can be produced by the entirety of heaven, populated as it is by millions and millions, who act in unis...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3215

The representative objects that present themselves to spirits come in unbelievable variety, but most of them resemble objects that exist on the earth in its three kingdoms. 

3214

Scenes representing what is spiritual and heavenly sometimes occur in a long series, lasting an hour or two, one after another, in an order that is astounding. There are certain communities ...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

2960:2

Ephron said, “The field I give you; and the cave that is in it—to you I give it” (verse 11). These words meant that they wanted to prepare themselves on their own, so far as the requirements of religion and faith went, or in other words, to reform themselves. This is what the first stage is like for people who are reforming (see §2946). When they learn more truth...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3474:1

A spirit came to me not long after he had left his body. (This I could tell from the fact that he did not yet realize he was in the other life but believed he was still living in the world.) I sensed that he had devoted his time to intellectual pursuits, which I discussed with him, but then to my amazement he suddenly soared into the air. I decided he was the typ...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3228

The themes of the current chapter are: the sons Abraham had by Keturah; Ishmael’s sons, by name; the birth of Esau and Jacob to Isaac and Rebekah; and the birthright Esau sold to Jacob for lentil soup. Anyone can see that material like this is useful as a religious history of the era but provides little for a person’s spiritual life—and yet it is our s...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3310:4

Only through concepts formed from facts and sense impressions can we corroborate doctrinal truth. Absolutely everything we think about—even the deepest mystery of faith—comes with some earthly, sense-based image, even though we usually have no idea of the true character of that image. In the other life, if we wish, it can be displayed for our minds or even (if we...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3200 

These two verses depict the condition of goodness on the rational plane when it is waiting for the truth that is to unite with it as a bride with her husband. The next two depict the condition of truth when it comes close and perceives the goodness with which it is to unite.

It is important to know, however, that these stages did not arrive just once but constantly...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3318:2  

A few words are needed to show how matters stand here, specifically how they stand with human beings. A human being is nothing else but an organ or vessel that receives life from the Lord; we do not live on our own. . . . The life that flows into us from the Lord comes from his divine love. This love, or the life that radiates from it, flows in and bestows itse...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3463:4  

Anyone can see how the case stands . . . simply from this general rule concerning neighborly love: “Everything whatever that you want people to do for you, you do likewise for them” (Matthew 7:12). People who do this by command do good to others but only because it has been ordered, not because their heart seeks it. Whenever they do, they start with themselves,...

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3475 

There are three heavens. In the first heaven, they see the superficial appearance of an object and perceive what it means on an inner plane. In the second heaven, they see the object as it is in its inner form and perceive what it is like on a still deeper plane. In the third heaven, they see that still deeper form, which is the inmost.

3475 cont’d

Each and every re...