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The Gist of Swedenborg

by Emanuel Swedenborg

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Biographical Note
  3. 3Epigraph · God the Lord — One and Infinite
  4. 4“Into His Marvellous Light”
  5. 5The Christ-God
  6. 6God-Man
  7. 7Why He Came
  8. 8How He Came
  9. 9The Life on Earth
  10. 10The Love of His Life
  11. 11“Come Unto Me”
  12. 12The Trinity; the Fulness of His Being
  13. 13Man — God’s Unrelaxed Effort
  14. 14An Instrument of Life
  15. 15“Abide in Me”
  16. 16Two Minds: Two Worlds
  17. 17Inalienable Powers
  18. 18The Drag of Heredity
  19. 19Loves of Self and the World
  20. 20The Need for Self-Action
  21. 21The Warfare of Regeneration
  22. 22“To Him That Overcometh”
  23. 23Repentance and the Remission of Sins
  24. 24Temptation and Prayer
  25. 25The Great Arena
  26. 26“By Little and Little”
  27. 27A New Man
  28. 28Childhood
  29. 29Prayer
  30. 30The Service of Worship
  31. 31The Sacraments
  32. 32I — Baptism
  33. 33II — The Holy Supper
  34. 34The Responsible Life in the World
  35. 35The Decalogue
  36. 36Marriage
  37. 37A Priceless Jewel — The Progressive Chastity of Marriage
  38. 38The Height of Service
  39. 39Its Whole Estate
  40. 40The Sacred Scriptures — God’s Word
  41. 41In Its Bosom Spiritual
  42. 42The Letter of the Word
  43. 43Its Language
  44. 44Its Function
  45. 45How to Use It
  46. 46Its Dissemination of Light
  47. 47A Canon on a New Principle
  48. 48The Life of Charity and Faith
  49. 49The Law of Charity
  50. 50Good in Its Wholeness
  51. 51The Man of Charity
  52. 52The Activity of Charity
  53. 53Faith the Partner of Charity
  54. 54The Patriotism of Charity
  55. 55Faith and Doubt
  56. 56The Faith of the Faithful
  57. 57Neighbors
  58. 58Diversions
  59. 59The Divine Providence — The Divine Purpose
  60. 60The Lawful Order of Providence
  61. 61A World-Wide Leading
  62. 62The Divine Perseverance
  63. 63In the Stream of Providence
  64. 64Care for the Morrow
  65. 65The Sufferance of Evil
  66. 66Death and the Resurrection
  67. 67Immortal by Endowment
  68. 68From World to World
  69. 69Unhurt by Death
  70. 70The World of Spirits
  71. 71The Way of One’s Own Love
  72. 72The First Three States After Death
  73. 73Continuation of the Outward Life
  74. 74Revelation of the Inner Life
  75. 75Instructed for Heaven
  76. 76Heaven
  77. 77“The Kingdom of God Is Within You”
  78. 78An Actual World
  79. 79A World of Action
  80. 80Our Children in Heaven
  81. 81Toward the Morning of Life
  82. 82Hell — Evil Is Hell
  83. 83Evil and Punishment
  84. 84God Wills the Damnation of None
  85. 85Master Passions of Hell
  86. 86“Our Name Is Legion”
  87. 87Communication With the Spiritual World
  88. 88One’s Spiritual Company
  89. 89“Ministers of His, That Do His Pleasure”
  90. 90Wholesome and Unwholesome Communication
  91. 91An Unbroken Association
  92. 92The Church
  93. 93The Church in God’s Sight
  94. 94A Succession of Churches
  95. 95Early Christianity and Its Decline
  96. 96The Lord’s Second Coming: When? How?
  97. 97A New Church
  98. 98The Ultimate Goal
  99. 99Memorable Sayings

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