The Rev. Eric H. Carswell is pastor of the Bryn Athyn Church.
He has previously been pastor of the Glenview, Illinois, and
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, societies and head of their schools;
Dean of the Bryn Athyn College Theological School; regional
pastor for the Northeastern United States; Vice Chancellor of the
Academy of the New Church; and Bishop’s Representative for
Education for the Academy and General Church Schools. He and
his wife, Donna (Zeitz), live in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
Contact: [email protected].
O U R N E W C H U RC H V O C A B U L A R Y
Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev. W. Cairns Henderson, 1961-1966.
GLORIFICATION
To glorify is to make Divine. Glorification is then the process by which the Lord, on
the planes of the rational, natural and sensual minds and of the body, put off by degrees the
merely human and put on the Human from the Divine. It includes also the bringing of these
planes into an infinitely perfect correspondence with the Supreme Divine, such as that of a
Divine mind and body with a Divine soul.
Thus the term refers also to the establishment of a Divine consciousness in the Lord’s
mind, and to the process whereby His Human, from being a receptacle of life, became life
itself. As that which is offered to the Lord by man, glorification is praise, exaltation and
worship from a sincere heart. (See True Christian Religion 104; Sacred Scripture 99; Arcana
Coelestia 2112.)
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