I certainly acknowledge the work that Dr. Mansfield has put into this
abridged version but do want to draw attention to the pitfalls that seem inherent
in its publication, to query the use to which the book will be put, and also wish
to draw attention to the harm it may cause to the use of the original version.
It is perhaps appropriate to remind ourselves that it was on the publication
and reading of the full, original version of the Arcana Coelestia, that the truths
of the New Church were first acknowledged and a new dispensation born.
Name withheld by request from online publication.
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.
HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is, of course, identical with the One God, Jesus Christ our Lord. It is the
proceeding Divine which instructs, enlightens, reforms and regenerates man, and is therefore
the Divine truth from which is man’s spiritual life. As the Writings point out, therefore, it is
not a God by itself, but the operation of the one God in performing these uses. Note that by
the Holy Spirit is meant a Divine operation that could not take place before the glorification.
(See Arcana Coelestia 9818; Divine Love and Wisdom 149; Canons HS i.)
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