tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post5866718090611516217..comments2024-03-11T07:53:25.838-04:00Comments on Spirituality, Dreams and Prophecy: The Spiritual Consequences of Adultery and the Origin of Marriage LoveDoug Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-85323346244564482742015-08-25T14:57:22.778-04:002015-08-25T14:57:22.778-04:00I am aware this is an uncomfortable subject, and I...I am aware this is an uncomfortable subject, and I may lose readers because of it. I have seen accounts where the recent events have harmed families, but the opinion by many is "Its OK if you dont get caught." It is better to root out the problem now than later. On the other side of the coin, many are quite judgmental and condemn immediately, and this is also wrong. You cannot judge unless you know the intent, and the state of one's marriage. But the fact of the matter is: one's regard for marriage is a good measure of one's spirituality, and this is something many do not want to hear.<br /><br />In the Western world, Swedenborg saw in vision that this act was regarded as nothing by the majority:<br /><br />"Once in the world of spirits I heard a great tumult. Thousands were congregated, and were crying out "Punish them! Punish them!"<br /><br />I went nearer, and asked "What is the matter?"<br /><br />One who had separated from the great assemblage told me they were in fiery wrath against the priests who were wandering about and preaching everywhere against adulterers, saying that with adulterers there is no acknowledgment of God, and that heaven is closed and hell opened to them, and that in hell they are unclean devils,—because a long way off they appear there like swine wallowing in excrements; and that the angels of heaven abhor them.<br /><br />I asked:—"Where are the priests? And why is there such an outcry on account of them?"<br /><br />He replied:—"The three priests are in the midst of them guarded by attendants; and the assemblage is of those who believe adulteries are not sins, and who declare that there is an acknowledgment of God among adulterers, equally as with those who keep to their wives. They are all from the Christian world. And a visitation was made by angels to see how many there were who believed adulteries to be sins, and there were not found a hundred out of a thousand.""<br /><br />This is one of the reasons why the revelations of the New Church is among the few.Doug Webberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.com