new church life: november/december 2017
see through the doorway up the aisle
– almost a tunnel vision with the 12
steps up to the golden altar – the altar
upon which lies the Threefold Word.
This was the early Academy and the
continuing Academy vision. To come
and worship and to know what God
has revealed by His Word.
This is the access to the Temple of
Wisdom, spoken of in other passages
(Divine Providence 36) in the Word
for the New Church. A higher,
interior education is set before us.
These steps, made of stone, are
actually made of love.
Do you see what I see? Steps of Love?
It is permitted for us to see the steps made from love. To see the pages
written by the Divine Human God of our newly opened understanding. To
see, to share the vision of the Academy, not an Academy of a bunch of people
who are all dead now. But as the Academy of the New Church.
It becomes our own Academy as we continue to walk the walk, when we
continue to see the vision given by the Divine. He sets before us the open door
which no one can shut.
He invites us to enter with our understanding to receive a higher education,
to behold the beauty of the Lord, and continue to come in year in and year out
to inquire and seek in His Temple.
It becomes our own
Academy as we continue
to walk the walk, when
we continue to see the
vision given by the
Divine. He sets before
us the open door which
no one can shut.
The Rev. Michael K. Cowley is pastor of the Olivet New Church
in Toronto, Canada. He has served also in the Immanuel Church
in Glenview, Illinois, the Midwestern District of the United
States, the Carmel Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and
Phoenix, Arizona. He lives in suburban Etobicoke with his wife,
Gwenda (Parker). Contact: [email protected]
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