The Hidden Way Across the Threshold Author:J. C. Street Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Interpretation Of The Chart God. (As transmitted to Seers and Adepts.) . All Spiritual Influx and all Life is from One Grand Spiritual Fountain, theref... more »ore must be the origin of all Life; all Truth, all Love, all Wisdom and Understanding, must flow from this fountain into the soul of man, and are felt in his mind; they flow forth from his thoughts into his speech; and from his will into his actions. The Seer Swedenborg uses the following propositions in his statement of this problem. I. That there are two worlds, the spiritual world, in which are spirits and angels, and the natural world, in which are men. 2. That the spiritual world existed and continually subsists from its own sun, and that the natural world existed and subsists from its own sun. That there is one sun of the spiritual world and another sun of the natural world, is because those worlds are altogether distinct; and a world derives its origin from its sun. 3. That the sun of the spiritual world is pure love from Jehovah God, who is in the midst of it. 4. That from that sun proceeds heat and light, and that the heat proceeding from it is in its essence love, and that the light thence is in its essence wisdom. 5. That both that heat and that light flow in into man, the heat into his will, where it produces the good of love, and the light into his understanding, where it produces the truth of wisdom. 6. That those two, heat and light, or love and wisdom, flow in conjointly from God into the soul of man, and through this into his mind, its affections and thoughts, and from these into the senses, speech and actions of the body. 7. That the sun of the natural world is pure fire, and that the world of nature first existed and continually subsists by means of this sun. 8. That therefore everything which proc...« less