Our Natural State....
Is a state of taking and claiming some, all or part of the Divine energy as ours.
We can abide by civil and moral laws, but as Swedenborg explains, true enlightenment goes beyond these natural constructs. We create civil laws and try as best we can to abide by moral laws. But this is still behind the veil so to speak. For we are still operating from our natural state which is influenced by evil - ie. the prism that only understands this world conditionally and "relative to things."
Even with the best of our own natural understanding we still have ZERO chance of overcoming our inherited evil state. For there's nothing "we" can do except continue to take, get, spin, slice, dice and judge these claims we and others make on the energy.
I know this may sound like a band beating around the same bush, but this is what is meant by "Man's Natural State." We are powerless to overcome the vortex of this Black Hole dynamic. The evil that's there must be removed by the application of His Light, His Energy, His Wisdom, His Love. But He needs us to humble ourselves so that we can be "willing to receive" this in a way that gives Him ALL the credit for everything that happens.
This giving up of all claims is that the root of all spiritual understanding. It's not something we are born with because mankind is born into the paradigm passed down from our parents, etc. We live in a fallen world. Not one without hope, just one that needs to be reformed and regenerated and restored by Him, in Him, with Him and for Him.
Try....
www.swedenborg.com
Call them up and ask for "Estelle". Order Heaven & Hell, True Christian Religion Vols 1 & 2 and The Divine Providence.
Say Hi to her for me.
Peace.
Light!
ONE!!
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