Chrysalis Retreat Center & Swedenborg Sanctuary

15/07/2025

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09/06/2025

SWEDENBORG: On Harmony Through infinite variety.
“The most perfect union, harmony, peace, and good‑fellowship are compatible with great diversity of character, rank, occupation, and office; … this diversity … renders the union and harmony all the more perfect when the different parts in the social body are duly adjusted, and one life pervades them all.” 

Swedenborg’s philosophy stresses that variety in society—different roles, cultures, talents—actually strengthens unity when each part works in harmony.
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🧬 On Roles and Respect
“It shows us that gradations of rank and character may exist without pride, disdain, or tyranny … and that these very gradations furnish wider scope for the infinitely diversified powers of man, and multiply and strengthen the ties that bind the human race together.” 

Here, the philosophy advocates for mutual respect across all social levels, recognizing each as essential to the whole.
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🏛️ On the universal church and Spiritual Unity
“Instead of antagonistic sects, warring against, fretting, and weakening each other, we should have, out of many and diverse communions, one harmonious and united Church; … one in spirit — one in the real and practical acknowledgment of the Lord and his Word.” 

The philosophy calls for unity of spirit among diverse traditions, seeing richness in varied expressions of faith.
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🕊️ On Communities Reflecting the “Universal Human”

“Angels engaged in similar activities form a single community. There is an infinite variety of good activities in heaven, and each individual angel is, so to speak, his or her own activity. … Heaven as a whole reflects a single individual … and each community of heaven reflecting the human form.” 

The philosophy of the “Grand Man” concept shows how many distinct parts—people, communities—together form a unified, living whole.
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🌟 On Perfection Through Integration

The writings of Swedenborg say that the perfection of something is increased the more various its parts are. … Perfection comes from an integrated unity that is born out of the beauty of potentiality.” 

The philosophy celebrates diversity as a source of creative potential, not a barrier to unity.

Swedenborg’s vision is rich and profound:
• Unity doesn’t mean sameness—it thrives in diversity.
• Every person, role, and belief can contribute to a harmonious whole.
• Spiritual communities (and heaven itself) are vibrant mosaics, not uniform blocks.
• True perfection arises when varied parts integrate into one living unity.

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07/06/2025

Our faith and perspective on spirituality folds in the workings and beauty of science and nature.
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Table of Contents Early Training Inventions Mining and the Physical Sciences The Search for the Soul Emanuel Swedenborg was in his fifties when he entered his visionary period. He spent his youth learning from some of the top scientists of Europe, and in his early adulthood he worked for Sweden’s ...

27/04/2025

The importance of innocence. Not the blissful ignorance kind of innocence — few have access to that for very long — but the kind of innocence that we can recover for ourselves which could describe as a “willingness to remain teachable.”
The kind that is a willingness to be led by what Is good and true.
This kind of wisdom of innocence is attainable!

Innocence is a gentle thing. But spiritually, it is much more powerful than evil. Let’s dig into what innocence really means in our journey of spiritual grow...

13/04/2025

A very special book, read to you. Listen while you work or sleep.

Proverbs: 4:23-25.
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you."

Philippians 4:8. "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."

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13/04/2025

Such a wonderful message about the PEACE the Lord's protection offers us. The Lord fights for us when we are going through struggles.

Sustainable peace isn’t based just on things going the way we want them to. Learn what Emanuel Swedenborg experienced about deeper, heavenly peace that lasts...

08/04/2025

April 2. “Everything that happens in the physical world is an effect and everything that happens in the spiritual world is a cause of such effects. Nothing happens in nature that does not have its cause in the spiritual realm.” – Divine Love and wisdom 134.

April 3. “Intellect and volition are our spiritual person.” – Heaven and Hell, 228

April 4. “We have two faculties for receiving life from the Lord. One is called will, and the other, intellect. These two faculties must constitute a single mind if we are to be truly human.” — Secrets of Heaven 9050.

April 5 The life of the will always comes first and the life of the intellect second.”
-– Secrets of Heaven 5969.

April 6 “People find it hard to distinguish between thought and will. When we want something, we say we think it, and when we think something, we often say we want it. Yet the two differ the way truth and goodness do.” — Secrets of Heaven 9995.

The intellect side influences the will side when truth turns into goodness. The will side influences the intellectual side when it puts this truth-turned-goodness into practice.
—Secrets of Heaven 5077.

April 7. “We need to realize that we are all our own will and our own intellect. This is how one person is differentiated from another.” —True Christianity 263.

“From all this three points emerge: that our life finds its home in our intellect: that the life is only as good as our wisdom; and that life is modified by the love in our will.”
— True Christianity 39

April 8 The desire for good (doing good because you love good) is really a matter of WILL. The desire for truth, though, (doing good because you love truth) is really a matter of intellect. At first glance, these two kinds of desire look as though they were the same, but they are inherently different, both in essence and in origin.
—Secrets of heaven, 1997.

08/04/2025

Willowtree Wisdom. April 1 something that appears like a soul in the body exist in every facet of our being – and every facet of our feelings and in every ever were thinking. @— Secrets of Heaven 1910.

08/04/2025

Random month! JANUARY:

January 17. “We are created to have an intellect and will that compose a single mind, which is what happens when our intellect is one with our will – that is, when our thoughts and words match our intent and deeds. Then the contents of our intellect, our forms manifesting our will. The contents of the intellect are what are called truth, because truths belong to the intellect. The contents of the will are what are called goodness, because goodness belongs to the will. It follows, then, that regarded in itself, any product of the intellect is simply a product of the will given shape.”
– Secrets of Heaven, 4574.

January 18. “Our genuine WILL is our innermost core, because it forms out of our love. Whatever we love, we will, and what we love most of all, we will the most deeply. Our intellect, on the other hand, merely serves to reveal to others what we will, or what we love.” – Secrets of heaven, 8885.

January 19 “ it is willing that makes a person human, and not so much knowing and understanding.” – Secrets of heaven 585.

January 21. “ every person born has an inner part: our outer part is the means by which we actually do what faith and love open (and consequently, our inner part) or just to do. The inner part is what is called the soul, and the outer part is what is called the body.
– Secrets of Heaven, 10592.

January 22. “ our earthly self, as it relates to our reasoning self ( or our outward self as a inward) resembles the manager of a household. Everything in us works the way a single household does, or other words the way, a single family does. There is the part that functions as the head of the household and the parts that function as servants. The rational mind itself is what observes everything as the head of the household and organizes the earthly mind by exerting an influence on it. The earthly mind is what carries out and administers orders. The earthly mind is distinct from the reasoning, mind and occupies a lower level, but also act with some autonomy.”
– Secrets of Heaven, 3020.

January 23 a moral life may be lived either to satisfy the divine or to satisfied people in this world. A moral life that is lived to satisfy the divine is a spiritual life.
– Heaven and Hell, 319.

07/07/2024

Thought for the day, from Swedenborg’s “Secrets of Heaven” section 3858:11.

28/05/2024