Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 163

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163. * I could mention something here, for there have very often been little children who were being instructed, to whom that instruction was most pleasing; but it is an entirely different matter with those who have lived in the light of spiritual knowledge, and who had not been child-like people and innocents, ...(but see that nothing is brought in that might upset the minds of some people on account of the common church code that without spiritual knowledge and faith no one can ever be saved).* [Little child (Infant), Innocence] [For the sake of context, see WE 4935-36, continuing the explanation of verse 2.] 4937. "Unleavened bread" is the kind commonly prepared with water, and so we learn that this bread stands for the nourishment of the third class. This class is nourished in its own way by Heavenly bread flowing in at the different levels, when it is unleavened, that is, when the loves of self and of the world, which produce a boiling up of bloods or the human vital forces, are removed. These having been removed, which is the doing of God the Messiah Alone, then at the various levels, and thus adapted to the capacity of the subjects of this class, the heavenly bread flows in, that is, a teaching of belief in God the Messiah, Whom they must necessarily acknowledge as the Savior of the World, to be able to enter the Heavenly Kingdom. Those who, from an ignorance they cannot help, * In the original a notation appears in the margin of the upper part of this paragraph, "Se whether it is permitted to tell something about little children."


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