Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg:
Three Steps in Rational Spirituality
Dr.
Leon James
Professor
of Psychology
First published on the Web: 1999
Updated: 2007
Version 13d
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**** Before You start: Diagnostic Test Your Rational
Spirituality ****
0.1 A Brief History of
Rational Spirituality
0.3b
Three Steps in Rational Spirituality
1. The
Dawning Age of True Science
1.2 Salvation by Faith Alone vs. Good Works
1.2.a Diagrams of the Human Mind and Divine
Influx
1.2.b Regeneration -- Shunning Evils As Sins
1.3 Truth Is the Appearance of Love
2.
Swedenborg’s Dual Consciousness
3.
Character Reformation By Means of the Threefold Word of God
God’s Intervention in
the Details of Our Lives
Correspondences -- The
Secret Code of Rational Spirituality
4. The
Varieties of Religion Under One Divine Human Person
The Inner
Spiritual Meaning of the Threefold Word
The Growth
of Rational Consciousness of God
5. Phase 1
– Ritual Faith or the Moses-Phase (Sectarianism, Fundamentalism)
6. Phase 2
– Mystical Faith or the Paul-Phase (Personalism, Universalism)
6.2 New Testament Sayings of Jesus and their
Spiritual Meaning
6.3 From Mystifying Faith to Rational
Spirituality
6.4 Sensuous vs. Rational Consciousness
6.5 Anatomical Diagrams of Consciousness
*** Take the Rational Spirituality Test Part 1
7. Phase 3
– Rational Faith or the Swedenborg-Phase (Particularism, Actualism)
8. Sectarianism: The Old Testament State
(Hebrew Word)
9. Personalism: The New Testament State
(Greek Word)
9.1 New Testament Parables– Doorway to
Rational Spirituality
9.1a Rebirth -- Reformation of the
Understanding and Regeneration of the Will
9.1b Why Jesus Spoke Only in Parables
9.1c To Prevent Profanation, Revelation is
Individual and Progressive
9.1d Can There Be a Scientific Proof that the Threefold Word is Divine
9.1e The Secret Code of Correspondences
9.1f The Divine Origin and Power of Correspondences
9.1g The Scientific Status of Correspondences
9.1h Perception of The Spiritual Sense of Scientific Revelations
9.1i Natural vs. Spiritual Understanding of Correspondences
9.1j True Science -- Divine Scientific Revelations of Absolute Truth
10. Particularism: The Third Testament State
(Latin Word)
11.
Spiritual Development is Cyclical and Recursive:
11.1a Comparison of Religious Ideas in the
Three Phases
11.1b The Nine Zones of the Ennead Matrix
12. The Moses Mind: Three States of Sectarianism
13. The Pauline Mind:
Three States of Personalism
14. The Swedenborg Mind: Three Phases
of Particularism
14.1 God, Salvation, Sin, Hell, and Devil in
Phase 2 vs. Phase 3
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15. The
Three Levels in the Mind -- Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial
15.1 Spirituality That is Natural, Not Yet
Spiritual or Celestial
15. 2 True Science Phase 3 Thinking
15.3 Elevation of Consciousness of the Human
Race
15.4 The Two Layers of True Science –
Theoretical and Applied
15.5 Elevation of Spiritual Consciousness in
Every Day Tasks
15.5.a Sensuous and Rational Consciousness of
the Divine
15.5.b Self-Witnessing One’s Thinking and
Willing
15.6 Chart of Mental Characteristics of
Angels and Spirits
15.7 Diagram Showing the Four Windows of the
Mind.
16. Anatomical Diagrams of the Mind in
Relation to God and Universe
16.1 The Inmost Region: God, Infinite,
Uncreate
16.2 The Middle Region: Mind and the
Spiritual World
16.3 The Outermost Region: The Natural
Mind and Hell
17.
Recapitulation and Study Questions and Exercises
17.1 What does the title mean -- Moses, Paul,
and Swedenborg: --